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November is National Diabetes Month. About 30 million people in the United States have diabetes, and about 84 million American adults have pre-diabetes. What is alarming is that one out of four people with diabetes do not know that they have it. So what is diabetes and why don’t some people know they have it?
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Monday, November 16, 2020
Number 46
November is National Diabetes Awareness Month
By Linda Timian Republican Writer
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Diabetes is a disease that occurs when the amount of glucose (blood sugar) in your blood is too high. Blood glucose is your body’s main source of energy and comes from the food you eat. Your body makes Insulin in your pancreas, and insulin helps glucose from food get into your cells to be used for energy. If your body doesn’t make enough insulin or doesn’t use insulin well, glucose will stay in your blood and not get into your cells. Over time, this excess glucose in your blood may cause heart disease, nerve damage, eye and dental problems, kidney disease, and foot problems besides diabetes.
“As more research has occurred and we have gained a better understanding of diabetes, there have been more specific 'types' of diabetes discovered,” shares Amber Albrecht, registered nurse and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES) at Cavalier County Memorial Hospital. Types of Diabetes
occurs most often in middleage and older people. "With the obesity epidemic and our lifestyles becoming more sedentary, we are seeing more and more young people with type 2 diabetes,” said Albrecht. Type 2 diabetes usually begins with insulin resistance, a condition in which your body does not use insulin well thus needing more insulin to help glucose
-Type 1 diabetes happens when your body does not make insulin. It is usually diagnosed in children and young adults but can appear at any age. If you have type 1 diabetes, you need to take insulin every day. -Type 2 diabetes is the most common and happens when your body does not make enough insulin or does not use the insulin well. Type 2 diabetes can develop at any age but
enter cells. At first, the pancreas makes more insulin to keep up with the added demand, but over time the pancreas can’t make enough insulin and blood glucose levels rise. -Gestational diabetes develops in some women when they are pregnant. Most of the time, this type of diabetes goes away after the baby is born. However, if you’ve had gestational diabetes, you have a greater chance
of developing type 2 diabetes later in life. Sometimes diabetes diagnosed during pregnancy is actually type 2 diabetes. -Prediabetes is when your blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be called diabetes. Having prediabetes is serious because it raises your chance of developing type 2 diabetes. You won’t know if you have prediabetes unless you are tested. Symptoms “The common signs of high blood sugar are being very thirsty, being very hungry, frequent urination and fatigue,” warns Albrecht. “These are more commonly noticed in type 1 diabetes because the blood sugar is usually much higher at diagnosis than with type 2. Someone with pre-diabetes may not have or notice any symptoms at all.” Often, diabetes is diagnosed during a routine checkup. “The general rule is to begin screenings at age 45 and at least every 3 years from there,” said Albrecht. If you have risk factors, screening should begin earlier and occur more often. “Risk factors for type 2 diabetes are sedcont. on page 2
Langdon Area High School participates in Red Ribbon Week Olson turkey calls exhibited in Bismarck Langdon Area High School (LAHS) Family & Consumer Sciences teacher Amy Kram and the FCCLA student members coordinated activities to participate in and promote Red Ribbon Week at the high school during the last week of October.
educate youth and encourage participation in drug prevention activities. “Students participated in a youth action summit a few weeks ago, which focused on advocacy and lots of tobacco free programs, and we decided
al seminar - North Dakota Youth Action Summit - with other students around the state,” said Regner. “This seminar talked about different tobacco and drug-related problems in the state. It was interesting because, while the seminar was
As part of Red Ribbon Week, FCCLA students, Tucker Regner and Hope Thorlakson passed out doughnuts saying "doughnut get yourself involved in drugs and tobacco." FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America) is a student organization that is a part of the Family & Consumer Science curriculum. Red Ribbon Week is a national campaign to
to combine it into a drug-free/ tobacco-free week for Red Ribbon Week,” said Kram. Senior Tucker Regner was one of those students. “Fellow students and I attended a virtu-
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preaching about not smoking, they also taught us, the attendees, how to be advocates of our own. They taught us to be the next leaders that come into cont. on page 3
Langdon resident Paul Olson is being featured along with fourteen other North Dakota artists at the “Fine Crafts of North Dakota” exhibit by the Bismarck Art & Galleries Association. Two of his handcrafted turkey calls are displayed at the exhibit, which runs through November 21, 2020. Olson has enjoyed hunting wild turkeys in the Pembina Gorge for many years. He came across the craft of wing bone turkey calls by accident. “I just looked up wild turkeys on the internet one day and saw something about the wing bone calls and researched it some more,” said Olson. He started crafting them, largely selftaught. Later, he read in the Grand Forks Herald that the North Dakota Museum of Art at UND was looking for crafters and artists to display works of art for their annual fundraiser.
He gave them a call, and they were interested in having one of his calls for the fundraiser. “It was on display for a couple weeks at the museum,” he said. "The curator of the museum bought the call for herself at the end of the display.” In 2018, Olson's wife, Michelle, discovered the National Wild Turkey Federation Convention in Nashville and
thought it would be fun to go to Tennessee. At the convencont. on page 2
THANK YOU!
To the administration and staff members of Cavalier County Memorial Hospital and Clinic, Cavalier County Public Health Office, Langdon Ambulance Squad, Maple Manor Care Center, Osnabrock Community Living Center, Langdon Area Schools and St. Alphonsus School. Your hard work and dedication during this COVID epidemic are truly appreciated!