Pictured: Oziel Jeffries,
Speaker Host; and Cindy Fisher, Nurse Diabetes Educator, South Eastern Med.
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Note: The Saturday, July 20, chicken BBQ was rained out after only 150 chickens were sold. There are still 100 chickens to be cooked and sold. The club will be holding a "make-up" BBQ this Saturday, July 27, to cook and sell the rest of the chickens. Volunteers are needed for the 2nd shift. Call Chuck--685-2069--if you can help. Thanks.
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Cindy Fisher, Nurse
Diabetes Educator from SEMed, described diabetes as a disease in which a
person’s blood glucose, or sugar, levels are too high. Glucose comes from the foods a
person eats. Insulin is a hormone that helps glucose get into a person’s cells
to give them energy.
She stated that 9.7% of
the population of Guernsey County has been diagnosed with diabetes. Thirty-one
per cent of the population over 20 is obese. Being obese increases the chance
that a person will get diabetes.
Fisher pointed out that
other risk factors for developing diabetes are a family history of the disease,
a lifestyle with little or no activity, a person’s ethnic background,
developing diabetes during a pregnancy, delivering a baby weighing over 9
pounds at birth, and certain types of illness and medication. While people
cannot change their family or ethnic background, they can reduce their risk of
getting diabetes by losing weight and getting more exercise.
The two most common types
of diabetes are Type 1 which usually affects children and Type 2 which
typically affects adults. Fisher stated that in Type 1 a person’s insulin cells
are destroyed which means that they will need to be given insulin so that they
can use the sugar in their blood.
Fisher pointed out that
Type 2 is the most common form of diabetes. Ninety-five per cent of all
diabetics have Type 2. Because a person with this type of diabetes does not produce
enough insulin, they are unable to use glucose effectively. Symptoms of these diseases include increased
urination, increased thirst, and unexplained weight loss.
Both Type 1 and Type 2
diabetics can be managed but not cured. Fisher indicated that the best thing a
person can do is to reduce their risk of getting the disease is to watch their
diet and exercise regularly.
Fisher presents diabetes
information classes regularly. People who would like to find out more about the
disease can contact her at 740-435-2940, to find out when she will be holding
her next information session.
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