October 24th, 2010 
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Diabetes program at Vineyard
Marcia Jess, OSU Extension educator on family and consumer sciences in Ottawa County, will speak about “Take Charge of Your Diabetes” at 1 p.m. Wednesday at The Vineyard on Catawba.
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Diabetes: Should you be tested?
Diabetes is a disease in which the body has a difficult timeconverting food to energy. Most of the food we eat is broken downinto a sugar called glucose and then carried by the blood to allparts of the body. A hormone, called insulin, helps the body changeblood sugar into energy.
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By 2050, medical researchers predict that 1 in 3 Americans might have diabetes
With the prediction that as many as one in three people will have diabetes in the America of 2050, federal health leaders hope to sound an alarm. The estimates include diagnosed and undiagnosed cases and show that a best-case scenario is that the incidence goes from 10 percent, where it is now, to 14 percent in the next 40 years.
Read more on The Columbus Dispatch
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