Diabetes-An Action Plan

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This paper presents a proactive community action plan toward prevention of diabetes. First, the paper gives an extensive description of the disease, highlighting the differences between type I diabetes and type II. Next, the author discusses the factors that contribute to adults and children developing diabetes and how this can be prevented. Obesity, in particular, is considered. The paper concludes by analyzing a community action plan for preventing diabetes and how different communities within a specific county adapted it.

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"However, in Type II Diabetes, the body does not produce enough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin produced by the body. Once, Type I Diabetes was called juvenile diabetes because Type II usually occurred in older, sedentary, and overweight adults. Sadly, because of the increased rates of obesity in America, younger and younger children are being diagnosed with what was once called adult-onset diabetes. "Children today may be the first generation in America that have shorter life expectancies than their parents" if current trends in childhood weight gain and physical inactivity continue, and one of the primary reasons for this shortened expected lifespan is the epidemic of Type II Diabetes (Livingston 2004: 2). The risks of diabetes include long term damage to the sufferer's eyes, kidneys, nerves or heart ("Type II Diabetes," ADA, 2007). "

Sample of Sources Used:

• "All about diabetes." ADA: American Diabetes Association Website. 2007. Available at: http://www.diabetes.org/about-diabetes.jsp. Accessed April 13, 2007.
• "Children and Weight: Taking Action in the Benicia Community." May 29, 2003. Available at: http://www.cwcsc.com/00assets_master/docs/takingactionpdfs/TakingactioninBenicia5.03.pdf. Accessed April 13, 2007.
• "Children and Weight: Taking Action in the Dixon Community." 2004. Available at: http://www.cwcsc.com/00assets_master/docs/takingactionpdfs/TakingActioninDixon11.03.pdf. Accessed April 13, 2007.
• "Children and Weight: Taking Action in the Vallejo Community." September 2003. Available at http://www.cwcsc.com/00assets_master/docs/takingactionpdfs/TakingActioninVallejo9.03.pdf. Accessed April 13, 2007.
• Livingston, Sally. "Children and Weight: Taking Action in Solano County: A Strategic Plan." Published by the Children and Weight Coalition of Solano County, March 2004. Available at http://www.cwcsc.com/00assets_master/docs/StrategicPlanforweb.pdf. Accessed April 13, 2007.

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