Tales of innovation and advocacy for Diabetes Consciousness Month – together with a kids’s ebook concerning the situation. It is designed to assist them perceive it, and never really feel alone.
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On this particular episode we’re marking Diabetes Consciousness Month with a spread of tales about innovation, advocacy and schooling — together with a ebook serving to kids newly identified with Kind 1 diabetes. It started as a college undertaking for Lea Leleta Sümer, who’s from Bosnia-Herzegovina and has lived with the situation since she was two years outdated. She needed to assist kids like her come to phrases with their situation, in addition to educate others.
Additionally: The Barbie Doll with Kind 1 diabetes – a collaboration from Mattel and the worldwide diabetes charity, Breakthrough T1D. We meet the ladies who impressed the doll.
We converse to Sally TM, of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK fame, who was identified with Kind 1 diabetes across the age of 10. Sally makes use of her artwork and platform to advocate for individuals residing with the situation.
As Italy turns into the primary nation to implement a nationwide screening programme, we hear from the person who has pioneered it.
Plus a trainer who’s damaged the world report for the quickest marathon by a male with sort 1 diabetes. And we learn how latest advances in expertise have made the day by day administration of the situation simpler and safer, and contemplate what’s to return.
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Presenters: Harry Bligh and Alex Ritson. Music composed by Sarah Warren
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