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Somethings to think about... No one tests their blood sugar, they check it-- testing implies there is a passing or failing number. I never thought about it that way until camp this summer. I have always said test.

There is no such thing as a good or bad number. The only bad numbers are the ones you don't do or don't write in your log book. That is something else I learned at camp though I don't quite agree with. But the other part of that statement is there are in range and out of range blood sugars though.

....Just two random things....

• Risk of Developing Type 1 Diabetes
• Offspring of diabetic father 6.1%
• Offspring of diabetic mother 2%
• Offspring of diabetic mother more than 25 years old at birth 1.1%
• Offspring of diabetic mother less than 25 years old at birth 3.6%
• Offspring if both parents diabetic 30%
• General population 0.4%

• When 90% of the beta cells are destroyed, the body can no longer regulate blood sugar level
• Diabetes is the 7th leading cause of all deaths
• 5.9% of the population has Diabetes
• 798,000 New Cases of Diabetes A Year

These Facts Came From Diabetes Forecast July 1999 Issue

• Every 40 seconds somoene in the US is diagnosed with diabetes
• Every day 35 children under the age of 20 are diagnosed, some less than a year old
• Every 3 minutes another american dies from diabetes
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• Thomas Edison had diabetes