2014 Summer Newsletter

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NEWSLETTER

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Summer 2014 Volume 48

Bridging The Gap Until There Is a Cure Dr. Edelman’s Corner

INSIDE The Bionic Pancreas Page 3

Celiac vs. Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity Page 4

Help TCOYD Meet the Challenge Page 5

One Touch® Verio® Sync Page 6

5 Ways a Diabetes Educator Can Help You Page 8

Question of the Month Page 9

Sneaky Vegetables: Easy & Delicious Meals Page 10

Know Your Numbers Page 11

Shrimp Scampi Recipe Page 12

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’m going to tell you the bad news first. There is no cure for type 1 or type 2 diabetes and to be perfectly honest, we still have a lot of time until we will reach a cure. Type 2 diabetes is a highly hereditary condition that is most likely due to one or more defects in certain genes in our bodies that regulate our metabolic systems, including blood glucose levels. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition where the body attacks itself. For example, when I was fifteen years old, my body produced autoantibodies that attacked the insulin producing cells in my pancreas and I developed type 1 diabetes. Here’s the good news, and it’s very good news. Today, we have more tools than ever before to treat diabetes

successfully so that when a cure does come along you and I will be in good enough health to be recipients of that cure. No matter what type of diabetes you have, the most important thing you can do right now is to bridge the gap until there is a cure. So, you may ask, “How do I bridge the gap?” Well, that’s easy to Bridging the Gap (continued on page 2)


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