Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes. It can harm your body, change you and your family's lives, and it can kill you. Consider this a lesson for the day. And take this information to the heart.



How do you know the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes? The difference is that type 1 is when your body does NOT produce insulin. Unlike type 1, type 2 is able to produce insulin, but there's a catch. It either isn't enough for the body, or the body is not able to recognize it. Problems then occur with the glucose level and the blood stream, which in turn result in major complications.


When there is build up of glucose in the cells, a few problems may occur:

• Dehydration
• Damage to the body
• Hyperosmolar nonketotic diabetic coma

(number 3's information can be located on several websites, one being WebMd) Here is the link:

http://www.webmd.com/content/article/46/1667_50948

Anyone can get type 2 diabetes, but there usually has to be something there to trigger the disease. Most more than none will develope it because of:

*Obesity

*Old age

*Genetics

*High cholesterol

*And female gestational diabetes

Here are some symptoms of type 2 diabetes, though they may vary between people, they are still very common among type 2 diabetes patients:

Increased thirst

Increased hunger (even after eating)

Dry mouth

Nausea and possible vomitting

Continuous urination

Fatigue

Blurred vision

Numbness or tingling in the hands and feet

And frequent infections of the urinary tract or genitals

Some of the major complications that come with obtaining type 2 can include:

Retinopathy

Kidney damge

And poor circulation or nerve damge

Thanks to WebMd.com, this information can be spread and read by many people around the world. Here is a link to WebMd's expansive research on type 2 diabetes that can help people cope with the illness:

http://www.webmd.com/content/article/45/1667_50910.htm#8

And this is another website that is dedicated to helping cope with type 2 diabetes:

http://www.whittier.org/pages/what_type2.html

Are Horoscopes Real?

So, the question for this blogging is "Are Horoscopes Real?"
I've been wondering this myself. This past month I've checked my mother's, my boyfriend's, and my own, and come to the conclusion that there is a weird coinscidence between horoscopes and our lives.
They may not match up directly to the description of your life during the directed day, but my mother seems to have contracted a magnetic reaction, because these horoscopes seem to have attached to her life. They always seem to be right on the nose with her life and what struggles she is attempting to overcome. The past month she has found a lot of difficult decisions that she's had to face, and since my father was admitted to the hospital they have increased. That was when I realized all the horoscopes that I HAVE checked of hers are almost always attached to a negative energy.
The following links are listed to help in your decision or opinion about horoscopes:

This link below is in favor that horoscopes are indeed real. She is an author of her website, "lipstickmystic" and author of horoscopes:

http://www.lipstickmystic.com/astro/are

This site is in favor of a more religious look on horoscopes:
http://www.raptureready.com/faq/faq129.html

MySpace.com also has a ready link to check daily horoscopes straight from your MySpace homepage. Here is the horoscope page:

http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=horoscope

Who Killed Kurt Cobain??

So, the majority of us know who Kurt Cobain was.
But WHO killed him!?
That's a question a lot of people would like to know. I, myself, would like to learn more about the subject. So far, tonight, I've learned some interesting things about his death. Was it a suicide or a murder? This site I've listed can show you videos of this controversy that are VERY interesting:
http://www.youtube.com
All you have to do is type in "Kurt Cobain" and your good.
The controversy between suicide or murder concerning his death is interesting because they add in his almost "ex-wife" into the list of murderer suspects, labeling Courtney Love as the top choice. They list evidence why his death points to murder and how the evidence from the crime scene does not match up with the title "suicide".
This is one video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su569jtFYf0
If the link does not take you to the correct site on YouTube.com, than try searching for it a different way.