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Would you like to learn more about Type 2 diabetes and also meet others with the same condition in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere? Diabetes Ireland is running a CODE Diabetes Education Course in Ballina starting Wednesday April 11.

Attitudes towards health and its links with weight gain have been changing at an extraordinary rate in recent years, with many campaigns and health professionals encouraging the nation to change their lifestyles for the better by shedding excess weight, a change that make all the difference with conditions such as diabetes.

The official launch of a new Parents Committee for children with diabetes in Carlow Kilkenny will take place at a cabaret night in the New Orchard Pub and Restaurant in Kilkenny on Saturday December 3, at 9pm.

A study undertaken by LighterLife, the innovative weight loss and weight management company, shows that those who have type II diabetes could now reverse the condition by following Lighterlife Total — a commercially available very low calorie diet and weight management programme— which carries major implications for information to be given to newly diagnosed and existing patients, who should know they have a potentially reversible condition and not one that is inevitably progressive.

The Diabetes Federation of Ireland is running a CODE Diabetes Education Course in Ballina starting on Tuesday November 8.

World Stroke Day 2011 is this Saturday October 29. Each year approximately 10,000 Irish people have a stroke, and sadly 2,000 people die as a result. It is estimated that 30,000 people are living in the community with a disability caused by a stroke. This makes stroke the third largest killer in Ireland, and the biggest cause of acquired disability.

The next meeting of The Mayo Parents Support Group for Children with Diabetes will be on Thursday October 20 at 8pm in The TF Royal Hotel Castlebar.

In recent years men’s attitudes towards healthy living has been changing for the better as the link between expanding waistlines and health difficulties such as diabetes, heart complications, and other problems become more apparent.

Figures from a new study released reveal the startling penetration of diabetes into Connacht, with 39 per cent of people reporting a family member with the condition. One in five Connacht people have a family member with type 2 diabetes and overall, three in four people in the region know someone who has diabetes.

The incidence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes is increasing with early detection having a vital role to play in the management of the condition.