Support The Businesses That Support The Beachwood Community. Get Healthy Beachwood Get a FREE Diabetes Risk Assessment – it could save your life! Although flu vaccinations are the hype during this time of year, they only prevent nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea for a season. Diabetes is a challenging, serious, chronic disease and its management requires constant attention, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Diabetes risk assessments can prevent blindness, amputations and heart disease for a LIFETIME! While people do not die from diabetes itself, death is related to the complications of heart attack, stroke, kidney failure and nerve damage. If you have insurance that covers a nutritionist or medical nutrition therapy, now is a good time to get an assessment. You can use your benefits now, before year’s end, to plan now for a healthier 2016! Here are some facts: • More than 29 million Americans have been diagnosed with diabetes. • It is estimated that, in Cuyahoga alone, 10.8% of the population has diabetes. • 8.1 million Americans (27.8% of people with diabetes) are undiagnosed. • Approximately 1.25 million people have type 1 diabetes, including 200,000 children and teens. Each year approximately 40,000 Americans are diagnosed with type1 diabetes. People with type 1 diabetes must take insulin to control blood glucose every day. • The number of children and teenagers’ diagnosed with type 2 diabetes is increasing at epidemic proportions because of inactivity and poor eating habits. At Diabetes Partnership, located right here in Beachwood, they seek to raise awareness of the signs, symptoms and risk factors of diabetes so people with diabetes can control and prevent or delay the onset of complications. Uncontrolled diabetes or high blood glucose levels, over a period of time, are the key contributing factors to the devastating complications of diabetes. Over time, the disease can lead to blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, miscarriages, amputations, irreversible damage to the nerves and blood vessels, and ultimately, death. A person with diabetes can minimize such complications through good blood sugar control. Between 90 and 95% of people with diabetes have type 2 diabetes, most common in people over 45 who are overweight, inactive, have high blood pressure or cholesterol, or have a family history of the disease. While people of all backgrounds are affected, type 2 diabetes disproportionately strikes African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. To better manage and control your health or to get a free diabetes risk assessment, please call 216.591.0800 to speak with a diabetes educator or visit www.diabetespartnership.org. Alice Rickel Associates Alice Rickel Associates focuses on the complex legal issues facing families today. Our practice includes divorce, dissolution, child custody, shared parenting plans and includes issues relating to support, property division, and domestic abuse. We also provide information regarding mediation and alternative mechanisms for resolving these family law issues. Cleveland Pops Orchestra Cleveland POPS Orchestra’s New Year’s Eve Concert & Party is the best place in town to welcome 2016. Reserve your tickets now at 216.231.1111. Concert at 9 pm, followed by dancing from 11 pm to 1 am. Leverity Leverity is a leading independent, multi-line insurance agency that provides a wide range of consulting services and specialized products to both corporate and personal clients throughout the United States. We provide superior customer service and the most costeffective insurance solutions and programs to meet your needs – exactly. Diabetes risk assessments can prevent blindness, amputations and heart disease for a LIFETIME! While people do not die from diabetes itself, death is related to the complications of heart attack, stroke, kidney failure and nerve damage. Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. – Albert Einstein December 2015 n Beachwood Buzz 43