A CELEBRATION OF LIFE FOR LOVERS OF LIFE
5TH ANNUAL RALLY WILL BE HELD SEPT 22TH, 2012
5th ANNUAL RALLY FOR ALI
IN SEARCH OF A CURE FOR DIABETES
ALL DONATIONS WILL GO TO HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE
PICNIC FOR A CAUSE
KRAUSE’S GROVE, 2 Beach Road, Halfmoon, NY
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2013
1:00 PM TO 6:00 PM ~ RAIN OR SHINE
$30.00 per adult ticket at gate - $20.00 for children under 12
includes donation to Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
5 hour picnic with soda, beer, games, raffles, 50/50, live music
JAMBONE - THE BEAR BONES PROJECT - BLUE HAND LUKE
SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE BY AWARD-WINNING IRISH STEP DANCER
GRACE CATHERINE MOMROW (Ali’s cousin)
Abundant food and dessert being served 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Those who wish to join a pre-picnic motorcycle cavalcade around the beautiful Tomhannock Reservoir in Ali’s honor will meet at the Troy Plaza on Hoosick Street at 10:00 A.M. for sign up and the cavalcade will kick off at 11:00 A.M. sharp.
For more info: https://www.facebook.com/Rally4Ali
For Further Information
Contact
For the Run, Wally Urzan
518-368-4826
For the Picnic & Cause
Alison Fisk
AFisk10302@aol.com
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Alzheimer's could be reclassified as Type 3 diabetes
Could Alzheimer's really just be another form of diabetes, caused by eating too much junk food?
By Bryan NelsonWed, Sep 12 2012 at 5:34 AM EST
Photo: ZUMA Press
Growing evidence that Alzheimer's is primarily a metabolic disease has led some researchers to propose reclassifying it as Type 3 diabetes, according to the Guardian. Such a revelation could have profound implications on the role that the junk food industry plays in causing Alzheimer's.
Today an estimated 35 million people suffer from Alzheimer's disease around the world, and as many as 346 million people suffer from diabetes. Both numbers are expected to rise wildly over the next several decades-- rises that also happen to be correlated with increasing obesity rates. The correlation is so uncanny that many scientists are now investigating a causal relationship between all three epidemics, with staggering results.
Type 2 diabetes has already been strongly linked with obesity and diet as well as with dementia and Alzheimer's. For instance, Type 2 sufferers are two to three times more likely to get Alzheimer's than the general population. The link between Alzheimer's and obesity has been studied less, but a growing cacophony of research is filling that gap. For instance, studies have strongly linked midlife obesity to Alzheimer's. Fitness and a better diet have also been linked to a decreased occurrence of dementia.
Now new studies are suggesting a link even more profound: that Alzheimer's may becaused directly by the brain's impaired response to insulin. A 2005 report found that levels of both insulin and insulin-like growth factors in the brains of Alzheimer's patients were lower than normal, with the lowest levels being found in the brain regions most devastated by the disease. Meanwhile, a report released just last year found that an insulin spray helped improve memory skills in people with Alzheimer's.
Insulin has a well-defined role in the brain's chemistry. For instance, it helps regulate the transmission of signals between neurons. It's not difficult to begin connecting the dots at this point. A causal relationship between Alzheimer's and the brain's insulin regulation isn't difficult to imagine and detail.
Of course, more research needs to be done to know for sure, but if Alzheimer's and other kinds of dementia are proven to be another form of diabetes, then the obesity epidemic — and the junk food industry that fuels it — could have consequences on public health that are even more profound than previously realized.
As the population continues to age, the discrepancy between the cheap cost of our highly processed junk food and the exploding costs of our health care system could become even more tragic.
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Embryonic stem cell research can be funded by US gov, court rules
The US government can continue funding embryonic stem cell research, after a federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s decision to throw out a lawsuit challenging federal funding for the research.
According to the Associated Press, opponents of stem cell research had claimed that the National Institute of Health was violating the 1996 Dickey-Wicker law, which prevents US funding for any work that could harm an embryo.
“Dickey-Wicker permits federal funding of research projects that utilize already-derived ESCs — which are not themselves embryos — because no ‘human embryo or embryos are destroyed’ in such projects,” Chief Judge David B. Sentelle said in the ruling, AP reported.
The US government can continue funding embryonic stem cell research, after a federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s decision to throw out a lawsuit challenging federal funding for the research. (Shutterstock photo)
Dr. Francis Collins, the director of NIH, said in a statement that they would “continue to move forward, conducting and funding research in this very promising area of science. The ruling affirms our commitment to the patients afflicted by diseases that may one day be treatable using the results of this research.”
The lawsuit was filed in 2009 by Dr. James Sherley of Boston Biomedical Research Institute and Theresa Deisher of AVM Biotechnology in Seattle, NBC News reported. The two use adult stem cells for research, but oppose the use of embryonic stem cells, stem cells found in day old embryos that act source of all of the cells and tissues in the body.
According to the NIH, stem cells have “the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in the body during early life and growth” and can provide “new potentials for treating diseases such as diabetes, and heart disease.”
In Canada, a drug using stem cells, has been approved to treat bone marrow diseases.
Read more: http://www.voxxi.com/embryonic-stem-cell-research/#ixzz25P1EsOri
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