1. There is a BIAS involved with this Diabetes-Help/Education Program started at Duane Reade Pharmacy here in NYC.
After you posted the info last week, I got in touch w/CVS and found out that their program is geared to those with IRD(aka Type 2 Diabetes).
Another example of how those with T1DM get "short-changed" in Healthcare Availability, Pharmaceuticals, Research & Development, and even Endocrinologists who are not trained with a sufficient background in T1DM compared to IRD. Most all Endocrinologists have a "mind-set" that relates to IRD(aka Type 2 Diabetes)
Again Type 1 Diabetes and IRD (aka Type 2 Diabetes) are TWO Different Disease. As such, their needs are different as well.
Funding, Education, Public Relations, Research, $$$$, Pharmaceuticals have been developed and made available for IRD and not Type 1 Diabetes.
There is a Bias here. Maybe because there is more money to be made from those involved with IRD(Insulin Resistant Disease) and not T1DM.
More Intelligence and commitment is required of those who work with T1DM. A scarcity within the Healthcare Community could account for this!!

Posted at 1:27PM on Aug 24th 2007 by BetterCell

2. Hi Diane & BetterCell,

Since approximately 1983 insulin resistance association with diabetes has been diluted because GM insulin has removed all traces of C-peptide. As more Diabetics of all types are treated with GM insulin the ability to 'type a Diabetic' via resistance to insulin becomes more challenging. UNdrugTREATED type 2 Diabetics certainly are the Masters of insulin resistance c/o their abundance of C-peptide and are all the more healthy for it ... BUT as various ANYdrugTREATED related steps are taken which deplete C-peptide availability from all Diabetics ... insulin resistance is futile...

The fact is that type 1a, 1b, 1.5, 2, 2.5 & 3 diabetes are all manifestations of the same cure ... for a the disease of "relative HYPOglycaemia" all of which types [of diabetes] are currently being treated with GM insulin ... a HYPOglycaemic substance.

Type 1a, 1b, 1.5, 2, 2.5 & 3 diabetes could / should all be graded as to the Diabetic's degree of CARBOHYDRATE resistance [rather than insulin resistance] eg the amount of carbohydrate a Person can consume before glucose overflows into their urine [because the CARBOHYDRATE is being RESISTED].

Human Beings, including 'Diabetics' have ZERO requirement for CARBOHYDRATES and certain Human Beings, especially "type 1 Diabetics" actively demonstrate this with substantial "CARBOHYDRATE RESISTANCE".

All 'Diabetics' have a carbohydrate 'allergy' [aka carbohydrate resistance] to a greater or lesser degree because the CARBOPHILIA fashion is to continue to eat carbohydrates too often ie too often to be processed by a 'Diabetic's LIVER' that is already 'overflowing' with glycogen / glucose stores.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras

Diabetes aka HYPERglycaemia is a protective physiological response to the extraordinary dangers of relative HYPOglycaemia.
www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T0F-4684HBY-2&_user=10&_coverDate=08%2F02%2F2002&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=2bdaaa088ad4b1036e1bce55328e63f0

Relative HYPOglycaemia diseases [associated with 'diabetes mellitus'] start when 'treatments' including ignoring/fighting carbohydrate RESISTANCE continue/increase [such as those treatments which exclude eating less often].
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17659530&ordinalpos=3&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

WHAT PREVENTS HYPERglycaemia...

Eat Less Often ... specifically ... Eat JUST clean water [zero % carbohydrate] between meals & eat ONLY when your blood glucose level, following your previous eat, has NATURALLY reduced to your chosen baseline blood glucose level [eg as related to the relative fuel demands of your particular activity level] and maintaining this habit, of 'supply & demand' glucose control, makes your prevention, of diabetes mellitus, sustainable.

...Warm thanks; Nick Dynes Gracey, BSc(Hons) Medical Biochemistry, Birmingham University, UK, WATerian c/o www.TheDiabetesBlog.com @ 19:42hrs FRI.24.AUG.2007.

ps... Diabetes Is Caused By Food And Or Drug Administration Too Much And Or Too Often.

www.thediabetesblog.com/2007/04/19/no-food-no-problem

pps... FOR MORE related info please follow the links via...

www.diabetesmine.com/2007/08/looking-past-bl.html#comment-80364609

www.thediabetesblog.com/2007/08/22/controlling-type-2-beyond-blood-sugar/1#c6889380

http://www.thediabetesblog.com/2007/08/23/once-upon-a-time-all-diabetes-was-treated-without-insulin/1#c6896177

ppps... Diabetes is NOT a disease ... diabetes is the CURE [for relative HYPOglycaemia]...

"Relative Hypoglycemia As A Cause Of Neuropsychiatric Illness" @ Journal Of The National Medical Association @ Harry M Salzer @ January 1966 @ Vol 58 @ Number 1.

Posted at 3:07PM on Aug 24th 2007 by Nicholas Dynes Gracey