Dear ECPI Faculty, Staff, and Students,
I am sure that many of you know or are related to someone with Type 1 Diabetes. It is a particularly cruel condition in that the majority of those affected are children or young adults. Children as young as six months old have been diagnosed with this life-threatening illness.
Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which a person’s pancreas loses the ability to produce insulin–a hormone essential to turning food into energy. It strikes both children and adults and is unrelated to diet and lifestyle. With T1D, there are no days off, and there is no cure–yet.
For young adults, it is especially difficult because it is very like having an eating disorder in that the affected person has to monitor their food intake very carefully 24 hours a day. The only way to provide the insulin needed to control their blood sugar is by injection. Imagine having to inject yourself several times a day!
JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes research Foundation) is the only organization totally committed to finding a cure rather than simply controlling symptoms of the disease. Fully 79% of their funding from all sources goes to research into a cure!
JDRF supports the best researchers doing the most promising, cutting-edge science to cure, prevent and treat T1D.
Please join me at Team ECPI for this year’s One Walk on September 25, 2016 at Elmwood Park in downtown Roanoke.
There really is power in numbers. Please click “REGISTER HERE” below to walk with us.
Sincerely,
Tony Neuron (Chair: Team ECPI)
