Tag: diabetes
Student lives with diabetes
Sariah Abid starts her day like most freshmen residents of the Oaks dormitory at the University of La Verne. She wakes up, eats breakfast and gets ready for class. There is just one difference, which can be revealed by the Medtronic pump that sits in her pocket. Abid, like millions of other Americans, is living with Type 1 diabetes.
Greeks walk to raise awareness
About 70 people came out to show their support on the morning of Nov. 17 at the Walk for Diabetes. Students, faculty and friends walked around the track to spread awareness and raise money for diabetes.
Child obesity super-sized to an epidemic
With her big blue eyes sparkling, an adorable little girl looks up from her car seat and says, “Mom will you buy me some diabetes?”
Dreaming of a life without sugar
The pen only makes a clicking sound as it punches the needle into Whitney Wickham’s finger. She twitches in a short shock of pain, but this kind of pain is already routine to the 19-year old University of La Verne sophomore as Wickham has to endure it twice a day.
Prevention the key to good health
For people affected with medical problems including diabetes, Parkinson's and strokes, throughout the country, the question of why they are struck with the disease is foremost in the minds of the afflicted. Recent scientific studies may be closer to answering these questions, but the answer is not going to be popular: people are causing their own diseases and have no one to blame but themselves.