How to Help

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The Minnesota Lions Diabetes Foundation, Inc. is dedicated to improving the quality of life for

people with diabetes by funding research to cure diabetes, providing education and sponsoring preventive health activities.

• Preventing Rejection of Porcine Islets with Innovative Immunotherapies
• Testing Inflammation Drugs to More Effectively Treat Type II Diabetes
• Correcting the Underlying Autoimmune Disease that Causes Diabetes
• Quality Assurance Manager for Manufacturing of Licensed Human Islet Therapy

Common Symptoms of Diabetes:

• Urinating often
• Feeling very thirsty
• Feeling very hungry-even though you are eating
• Extreme fatigue
• Blurry Vision
• Cuts/bruises that are slow to heal
• Weight loss-even though you are eating more Tingling, pain, or numbness in the hands/feet (type 2)

Are you at Risk?

Clubs are encouraged to partner with local/regional health providers to increase awareness of risks of Type 2 diabetes.

• Year 1: District Wide Project
• Year 2: Zone Projects
• Year 3: Club Projects

Type 1 Diabetes (5%)

An autoimmune disease where the body’s immune system has killed the insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas.

Type 2 Diabetes (95%)

An insulin resistance disease where the body either makes too little insulin or cannot effectively use the insulin it produces

1 in 4 people with type 2 diabetes aren’t aware they have it

• Leading cause of:
• New cases of blindness among adults
• Kidney failure
• Non-traumatic lower limb amputations

This award is given to a club or person who has donated $1,000.00 to the Minnesota Lions Diabetes Foundation, Inc.

Applications are on our website: www.mnlionsdiabetes.org

Together…We Can Find a Cure!