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DIABETES AND DIET
by
Jo R. Curtis
Dallas Co. Extension Agent
Diabetes is one disease we
are likely to see more of in our
lifetime. According to the
American Diabetes Associa-
tion, the incidence of diabetes
is increasing by about 6% a
year. At this rate, infants born
today have a better than 1 in 5
chance of developing diabetes
by the time they reach 70.
One common image of a
diabetic is a person who takes
daily insulin shots, eats special
foods and never tastes sugar.
This image of diabetics and the
diabetic diet is not entirely ac-
curate.
Diabetes is characterized by
the inability to process sugars
and other carbohydrates nor-
mally. It occurs in all age
groups from infants to the
elderly, but the greatest in-
cidence is among middle-aged
or older adults.
About 80 to 85% of all
diabetics are 45 years of age or
older.
During the past decade,
medical research has led to the
discovery of new characteris-
tics of the disease. It's now
thought that diabetes is not
one, but several diseases,
possibly with differing causes
and means of transmission.
Most people don't realize
that diet is the key to control-
ling diabetes. The majority of
diabetics do not need insulin.
Older diabetics usually control
their disease through oral
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medication and diet, or diet
alone.
A diabetic diet is not parti-
cularly restrictive either. In
fact, it is the kind of good,
basic healthful diet that nutri-
tionists say we should all eat.
The American Diabetic
Association currently recom-
mends a balanced diet with
food from the four major food
groups and 50 to 60% of the
total calories from carbohy-
drates.
The diabetic's carbohydrates
should be mostly from starches
such as potatoes, pasta and
bread, and the intake of sugars
and desserts should be limited.
But diabetic diets do not re-
quire the use of the special no-
sugar products you see in the
grocery stores.
Diabetics must also regularly
space their meals. The total
calories for each day must be
divided into at least three meals
and often one or two regular
snacks. The meals and snacks
need to be balanced to contain
some protein and fat as well as
carbohydrate.
Along with diet, diabetics
must be concerned about
maintaining a desirable weight.
Losing weight may help the
overweight diabetic reduce his
need for drug therapy, and im-
prove his ability to tolerate
sugars.
For diabetics, and non-
diabetics alike, good nutrition
plays an important role in
maintaining good health.
Your Public Schools
by Mary Hatwood Futrell, president
National Education Association ^
We Can't Let Our Students
Put Their Brains On "Cruise Control'
By Mary Hatwod Futrell
President of the
National Education Assn.
Four years of English.
Three years of math, sci-
ence and social studies. A
half-year of instruction in
computer science.
Does that curriculum
sound too rigorous or de-
manding for high school stu-
dents? Of course not. But
the National Center for Ed-
ucation Statistics says that
less than two percent of to-
day's graduating students
now meet these minimums.
It's time to get tough and
firm up high school gradua-
tion requirements. Let's pre-
pare our students for life in
a vastly more complex soci-
ety than any of us could
ever have imagined. And if
we expect our students to
thrive —not just survive we
need to give them skills to
cope with the relentless de-
mands that will he placed
on them as adults.
Reduced to its simplest
terms, we must teach our
students how to think, com
municate and understand
their world.
What kind of skills will
that take? Our students to
day need to learn both
kinds of literacy skills -Eng-
lish and computer as well
as how to think critically
and analytically. They also
need both more science and
math, which are crucial to a
high tech economy, and
more instruction in the arts
and humanities that are ba-
sic to any well-rounded
education.
Along1 with more rigor-
ous coursework, it's time to
put our students on notice
that the days of social pro-
motions are over.
We teachers know par-
ents never like to hear
that their
learned
grade. But we've seen the
damage that results from
promoting students who are
academically unprepared for
a higher grade. Undeserved
promotions only set stu-
dents up for academic dis-
aster later on.
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Let's not insist on pro
moting children who aren't
ready. Let's instead work
together— parent and teach
er —and do our best to help
our children learn. Let's
work to raise educational
standards and fight the cut-
backs—at all levels of gov-
ernment that threaten qual-
ity education.
Legislatures in more than
half the states have already
taken steps to upgrade their
standards. In the last three
years, for example, 1 7 states
have required students to
take more courses in math,
12 states have done so in
science, 10 in social studies,
eight in English, and five in
foreign languages.
But with all of the atten-
tion today on educational
excellence, we need to keep
in mind that it takes more
than good intentions to ac-
complish academic reforms.
It also takes money.
It takes dollars to pay
the salaries of additional
math and science teachers...
to purchase up-to-date text-
books. ..to properly equip
labs and classrooms.
Quality education doesn't
come cheap. As the recent
National Commission on
Excellence in Education re-
children haven't port concluded: "Excellence
the skills necessary costs. But in the long run,
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to move on to the next mediocrity costs far more."
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