Blueberries On A Mission To End Type-2 Diabetes!
Blueberry Family Health Foundation Website
The Blueberry Family Health Foundation is a new non-profit group with a mission to help end Type-2 Diabetes in children. Diabetes is one of the top “killer” diseases in the United States. Type-2 Diabetes was once rarely seen in children. Unfortunately today 50% of the diabetes cases diagnosed in children are the non-insulin dependent T2DM.
Diabetes – A Life Wrecking Disease.
There are three kinds of diabetes, Type 1 Diabetes mellitus (T1DM), used to be called “juvenile onset” or insulin-dependent diabetes. There is little known about why people get Type 1 Diabetes mellitus. Gestational diabetes is another major form of the disease that 3 to 10% of pregnant mothers with no history of the disease get. In any form, diabetes is a life crushing diseases that leads to many other serious health impacts such as amputations, heart disease and blindness.
Type 2 Diabetes A Plague On Our Children
Type-2 Diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is the new pox on our children. Twenty years ago, Type-2 Diabetes was once rarely seen in children.Although there are other ways to get Type-2 Diabetes mellitus, obesity is the primary cause when it comes to children. As far as children are concerned, this is a modern plague that should be as worrisome as any flu pandemic.
Families Vested In Blueberries, Focused on Ending Childhood Obesity
Blueberries have been family farmed in one way or another since primitive people foraged what is now northeastern USA and Canada. Today, across the USA, families grow blueberries for local and worldwide markets. The Blueberry Family Health Foundation was founded by some of those families as a way to give back.
Founded initially by blueberry industry families, the Blueberry Family Health Foundation is now an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit focused on healthier children. The mission of the Blueberry Family Health Foundations is to help researchers, the medical community and blueberry industry be part of preventing this preventable childhood disease.
You can be a part of this giving back from the blueberry industry by partnering with the Blueberry Family Health Foundation! The organization needs resources immediately. Start by visiting: http://www.bbfamilyhealth.org/ and learning about how Type-2 Diabetes is a disease ravaging our children.
Or just Donate!
The fastest way you can help the Blueberry Family Health Foundation is by giving directly to their cause. Visit their donation page here!
Like the Blueberry Family Health Foundation on Facebook!
Part of the solution is as easy as liking this organization and tuning in at Facebook!