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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
WIKWEMIKONG?World Diabetes Day, that?s Mino Gwekwaadziiwin in Anishinaabemowin, has a particular poignancy for aboriginal communities, noted Bonnie Akiwenzie, aboriginal diabetes initiative worker with the Wikwemikong Health Centre during a break in the two-day community seminar at the Wikwemikong arena.
?Diabetes is at epidemic levels in our communities,? she said, noting that world-wide the upsurge in diabetes is a cause for major concern. ?There are 36.7 million people with diabetes in the world today, 335 million adults, and that number is expected to rise to more than 50 million by the year 2035.?
http://www.manitoulin.ca/2013/11/27/wikwemikong-two-day-diabetes-workshop-seeks-paradigm-shift/
Included chiefly because of those incredible words! 🙂
?Diabetes is at epidemic levels in our communities,? she said, noting that world-wide the upsurge in diabetes is a cause for major concern. ?There are 36.7 million people with diabetes in the world today, 335 million adults, and that number is expected to rise to more than 50 million by the year 2035.?
http://www.manitoulin.ca/2013/11/27/wikwemikong-two-day-diabetes-workshop-seeks-paradigm-shift/
Included chiefly because of those incredible words! 🙂