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suffering from diabetes? When feet are not cared for properly, they begin to show symptoms of illness. These symptoms may differ from person to person, but as a rule you will experience continuous pain, irritation, and discomfort. Those are warning signs that your feet need special care and professional attention. What are the symptoms? Cold feet, Type 2 diabetes, which most often corns, calluses, and fungus or cellulites, a occurs in people potentially fatal bacterial infection, may over age 40 and also indicate diabetes. People with diabetes in those who are often complain of burning feet or toes, overweight or similar to athlete’s foot, as well as fatigue obese, is now on or pain in the calf or buttocks after walking a the rise in eighthshort distance. grade age children and younger who Unless their feet hurt, people are inclined are obese and do to ignore them, figuring that the pain will go not exercise. This away. As a result, our feet are the body’s type of diabetes can most abused, neglected, and unexamined often be controlled part. But our feet mirror diseases, especially through healthy diabetes, and regular preventive foot care eating, exercise and about every two months can detect or oral medications. prevent serious complications.
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diabetes education session on a quarterly basis. The next class will be held Thursday, April 26, beginning at 6 p.m. in the Bronson Battle Creek Medical Office Building, Suite 309. This class focuses on how to delay or prevent the diagnosis of diabetes. Physician referral is required for Type 1 diabetes, outpatient services but patients may selfformerly called refer and the staff will forward a referral juvenile diabetes, to the physician for signature. can develop at any age, but the greatest The Diabetes Center is located at Bronson incidence is in girls Battle Creek in the Medical Office Building ages 10-12 and boys in Suite 308. If you have questions about ages 12-14. In this the program or about your diabetes, you type of diabetes, may contact the Diabetes Center at (269) the pancreas loses 245-8190. the ability to make Since diabetes will not go away, it means insulin. People with Type 1 diabetes must that people diagnosed with it will go through various stages of adjustment until follow a healthy symptoms stabilize. The goal is to get meal plan and take through those times so the patient can injections of insulin accept and manage their diabetes. every day. Foot Care Why is foot care so important to those
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Essential Tools for Senior Living Yoga Weekly Drop-in Classes Gentle Yoga: Tues. & Fri. 10:30 - 11:45am Relax after work: Mon. 6-7pm Good Morning Yoga: Sat. 9-10am Becky Porter, RN, BSN - Instructor
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Pre-registration required, Seniors 3 classes for $15 Tuesday evenings and/or Thursday mornings Jeanine Deal, Certified Instructor, (269) 965-0461
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The Shaw Funeral Home is proud to be a familyowned and independent professional service provider with deep roots in our community. Founded in 1866 as Battle Creek’s First funeral home, it has been operated since 1909 exclusively by four generations of the Shaw Family. The current owner, T.R. Shaw, Jr. is the great grandson of F.E. Shaw, who purchased the business in 1909. T.R.’s father, Tom and grandfather F.E. Shaw, Jr. left a legacy of service that the funeral home continues today. Families in the Battle Creek area have called on the Shaws to care for their families in their time of need for four generations 2838 Capital Ave. SW, Battle Creek MI 49015 • 269-979-3838 205 N. Elizabeth St. Bellevue, MI 49021 • 269-763-9511
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Small classes, gentle individualized instruction, props and supplies provided.
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