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Introducing Our New Beverages!!
Tuesday, 31 December 2013
| Labels: cocoa drink, diabetic friendly products, hazelnut white coffee, stevia, white coffee | |
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Top 10 Facts about Diabetes
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
1. Diabetes is a silent epidemic and according to WHO there are 246 million people in the world living with diabetes. This is almost 6% of the world's adult population.
2. Diabetes inAsians is five timesthe rate of the white population
3. India is the diabetes capital of the world. It is estimated that currently there are 40 million people with diabetes in India and by 2025 this number will swell to 70 million. This would mean every fifth diabetic in the world would be an Indian.
4.Central obesity or apple shape of the body and insulin resistance is the main reason for diabetes increase in Indians
5. Diabetes causes 6 deaths every minute and one in 20 deaths in the world is due to the condition. Every year it is estimated that 3.2 million people in the world die due to the diabetes or its related causes.
6. Diabetes is an important 'silent killer disease' as there is usually no early symptom of the disease. The commonest early symptom is feeling thirsty
7. Almost 90 to 95% of diabetes is of type 2 or maturity onset type; that affects people in their middle age. Type 1 or juvenile diabetes affects 70,000 children under the age of 15 years every year.
8. The major cause of increase in the incidence of diabetes is a sedentary lifestyle. Exercise and diet can either reduce or delay the incidence of diabetes by over 50%.
9. Diabetes is the number one cause of kidney failure in the world. Besides this every year it is responsible for 5% or 5 million blindness in adults and one million limb amputations. Diabetes is also an important cause of heart disease, stroke and cataract.
10. The current cost of treating diabetes and its complications in the world is estimated as US $ 215-375 billion. The disease is growing fastest in developing countries where there are more people in the lower and middle-income group.
Read more:Top Ten Facts About Diabetes | Medindiahttp://www.medindia.net/health_statistics/health_facts/diabetes-facts.htm#ixzz2PK2LUTzP| Labels: Fun facts, Updates | |
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AGM Koperasi Diabetes 2012
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Koperasi Diabetes had an AGM last december at Seri Duta 1,KL in conjuction of our 2nd year of establishment. New board members was elected and we also add a few more people to become our AJK. These changes were made due to the growing number of activities that is going to happen this year. These are some of the pictures. Enjoy
| Labels: Events, Updates, What We Do | |
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Chocamok
Saturday, 12 January 2013
Hey, soon we'll be selling diabetic friendly cookies. Its low in calorie and its good for those who want to avoid diabetes!
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Hi! thank you for reading our blog. This is a part 2 of - A day with children from Rumah Amal Asnaf Al Mubarakh. The reason why we did a 2 part of this post is because there are so many things that we can share with you.
Soo, after we went fishing...
We went to the waterfall
Look at those happy faces
Enjoying local fruits
Tea time break
Izzul's favourite picture
With the kids
Saying goodbye :-(
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A day with children from Rumah Amal Asnaf Al Mubarakh Part 1
Wednesday, 2 January 2013
Last week we spent a day with the children from Rumah Amal Al Mubarakh at Janda Baik. It's a charity event hosted by Mrs. Nik and Mr. Matin. There were a lot of fun activities given for the children.
Mr. Matin
Having their lunch before the activities starts. The food was sponsored by Mrs. Nik, Mr. Matin , and Mrs Nikki.
Feeding the goats
The calf are too cute!
Wormssss for fishing
To be continued ......| |
