Improve the lives of millions of people living with diabetes and diabetes related diseases such as Alzheimer's by funding research studies that: (1) find improved ways of educating the public regarding proper nutrition and diabetes management techniques (2) discover new treatments to ease the burden of diabetic complications such as wound healing, neuropathy, and heart disease (3) provide the ultimate goal of a cure for diabetes

Make educational programs such as our "Diabetes University" seminars available to the general public on our website www. diabetesaction. org in addition to increasing the direct help we can provide on diabetes self management by offering personal advice via our diabetes educator consultant. Increase the distribution of our free booklet on managing diabetes plus offering advice such as articles from Dr. Ryan Bradley on the "Complementary Corner" featured on our website. In addition summaries of research studies which can influence the treatment and management of diabetes will be described for the public on our website and through public mailings.

Each year we receive more qualified applicants for research studies which are focused on the goal of increasing prevention of diabetes and improving the treatments available for the millions of people living with diabetes. We are fortunate to have dedicated medical consultants that continue to provide both medical and nutritional advice to people who access our website, and an experienced and highly qualified medical board of directors who volunteer their time to evaluate the research applications to find those with the highest probablility of success in meeting our goals. With the greatest epidemic of diabetes affecting the American Indian population, we have been able to obtain a long term partnership with the Cheyenne River Youth Project to continue our American Indian Diabetes Prevention Project that can help mitigate the epidemic of diabetes in this population.

Reports from individual research studies will show whether the proposed research has met any specific goals of improving treatment or reducing complications of diabetes. For the ultimate goal of finding a cure, it will take a long term outlook of evaluating data of new incidence of diabetes and whether people already diagnosed with diabetes have been able to revert to normal blood sugar status such as we are currently seeing with patients in the Univ. of Mass. study we have been currently funding where patients with long term type 1 diabetes have been able to obtain normal blood sugar levels without medication.

Many of the research studies we are and have been funding have already made an impact on mitigating the effect of diabetes. Some of these examples are the studies we have funded on herbal remedies such as cinnamon and chromium that have enabled patients with Type 2 diabetes to reduce or eliminate the need for medication. A recent study we are funding has been able to show that the use of a ketogenic diet can eliminate symptoms of both nephropathy and neuropathy. Our current American Indian Diabetes Prevention Program has already improved the lives of families on the Cheyenne River Reservation where children who are learning how to eat healthier have been able to lose weight and lessen their chances of becoming diabetic.