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	<title>Juvenile Diabetes Enrichment Fund</title>
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	<description>Helping Families One At A Time</description>
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		<title>Zachary Ryan Baker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zach is a great guy. He has Juvenile Diabetes and is only 9 years old. He is a child that has endured more hardships and faces more challenges every day, than most of us face in a lifetime. Here is Zach&#8217;s story in his mother&#8217;s words:
&#8220;Zach is nine years old. He was born in Newport, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdef.org/zachary-ryan-baker/</link>
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		<title>Welcome to JDEF.org – Home of the Juvenile Diabetes Enrichment Fund</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is our goal to create an online community which serves the purpose of connecting families and children with juvenile diabetes to various resources and opportunities they would otherwise not be exposed to.  Whether this means arranging financial assistance to send your daughter to summer camp or finding a computer tutor who will donate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdef.org/welcome-to-jdef-org-%e2%80%93-home-of-the-juvenile-diabetes-enrichment-fund/</link>
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		<title>How to Identify the Symptoms of Juvenile Diabetes in your Child</title>
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Juvenile Diabetes (Type 1 diabetes) currently affects over 3 million people in the United States alone.   This life threatening disease can manifest very rapidly with symptoms showing within days.   It occurs when the body&#8217;s immune system attacks the insulin producing cells of pancreas.  Insulin is a hormone that helps the body to process sugar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdef.org/how-to-identify-the-symptoms-of-juvenile-diabetes-in-your-child/</link>
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		<title>Juvenile Diabetes &amp; Cholesterol Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Diabetes is not simply a challenging and chronic disease in its own right, but it also is a leading risk factor for cardiovascular diseases.
As a consequence, those with diabetes, including children and teenagers, are encouraged to take a more active approach to managing cholesterol levels. The American Academy of Pediatrics, for instance, recently recommended wider [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdef.org/juvenile-diabetes-cholesterol-management/</link>
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		<title>Symptoms of Juvenile Diabetes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Symptoms of Juvenile Diabetes (Type 1 Diabetes) usually develop quickly in contrast to Type 2 Diabetes.  The actual cause for Juvenile Diabetes is not yet known but researchers suggest that it may be due to the general scoial environment and genetics.  Child victims of diabetes sometimes have a family history of the disease.
Juvenile Diabetes is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdef.org/symptoms-of-juvenile-diabetes/</link>
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		<title>Juvenile Diabetes Diet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most important part of living with juvenile diabetes is the right diet.  Staying healthy and eating the right foods is essential to battling juvenile diabetes.  There are some foods that you cannot eat, period, so you need to be in control over your diet.
Having Juvenile Diabetes is a balancing act but it is manageable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdef.org/juvenile-diabetes-diet/</link>
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		<title>What is Juvenile Diabetes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Juvenile Diabetes (also called Type 1 Diabetes) is an autoimmune disorder in which a person&#8217;s immune system attacks the body&#8217;s healthy cells as if they were infections.  More specifically, the body&#8217;s immune system attacks the cells of the pancreas (an organ behind the stomach) causing it to produce little or no insulin at all.
Insulin is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdef.org/what-is-juvenile-diabetes/</link>
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		<title>Know The Symptoms of Juvenile Diabetes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRFI), “every year over 13,000 children are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.” There is no known cure for this stealthy disease that attacks and destroys the beta cells that produce insulin. Symptoms present themselves suddenly and progress rapidly. Knowing what symptoms to look for, if you suspect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdef.org/know-the-symptoms-of-juvenile-diabetes/</link>
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		<title>Managing Juvenile Diabetes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people are under the notion that diabetes is caused by obesity and eating sweets excessively. But such is not the case with juvenile diabetes. What exactly is juvenile diabetes and how is it different from other forms of diabetes? Juvenile diabetes is more apt to strike during the childhood, adolescent and young adult years. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdef.org/managing-juvenile-diabetes/</link>
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		<title>Juvenile Diabetes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Around 10 to 15 % of children in America today are diabetic.  This is not a death sentence and therefore parents need not panic. However, there is a need for more awareness, more concern and more caution to master the art of management of diabetes and prevent the complications from the same. Diabetes is primarily [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdef.org/juvenile-diabetes/</link>
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