we attend the eleventh annual two thousand and thirteen american diabetes association seattle  i'm actually here earlier in the day or so later because it runs from nine am to three p as i walked around i came across someone in charge and that is alicia morgan yes that's correct and your title is and the director of mission delivery what does that mean that is involved the program d vendors and things like that can we expect to see here this year it is a thing different from west here you know that's a good question the first thing that's different this year is that we have a type one stage that's said to katie specifically to stories and research related to type one every year we tend to have a family fun active living area as well as an american diabetes association experience area we always offer free health screenings this year we even have a few extra ones that we haven't had and there's there's quite a few drug stores and other name brand type vendors there absolutely it's a community event where people understand that we're really fighting a serious disease actually diabetes is the largest fastest growing chronic disease ever in the american and united states and is there a particular type of person that usually gets it as opposed to no or well the difference between type one and type substantial so there's really no rhyme or reason with type one it's a bit more of a genetic disease with type two obesity tends to be a risk factor for developing type two as well as just being older over the age of forty five tend to be a higher risk age and also the certain ethnic groups that are higher risk including hispanics african americans and asian americans or asians ok well i've got two of those because i'm over forty  five and i think i think i'm about fifteen pounds overweight because i had actually lost a bunch of weight during the before or before the end of summer but  put it all back there's winter right now but that's this because i also have been doing some of the exercises i was doing because i kind of maybe not be able to do certain things right i either strain a muscle or something i had to stop for a little bit under stand of all but but if you are overweight what research is shows is that just losing even seven percent of your body weight can definitely reduced the risk of developing diabetes if you're pre diabetic and or help you if you are diabetic manage the disease that you're not developing those deadly complications including blindness and cetaceans for instance actually have a friend who had  several of his limbs actually so i understand about that i also understand that since i have a love my sweet right and i readily admit i eat a lot of i i also worry about a little bit because i have gained a little bit extra weight because i have been exercising so you know i worry about those things too even though i'm kind of to me right absolutely well again it's important that you have a balance we don't have any forbidden foods in our language but it's all about moderation and taking you know common sense approach to the food choices that you make including lots of fresh fruits and vegetables and grains and lean cuts to me so be on the lookout for that it'll be in april next year we don't have a date that but we should be having that set probably within the month it's usually about the same time a year easier yes yes and of course a website for more information please check out dub dub du dot diabetes dot org backsplash seattle and is there any other website they should be aware of to know if even if they go just to the main page dub dub dub dot diabetes org they can find any chapter within that within that you were we go here as i was walking around i came across my previous nurse cheryl who tested me but she's doing something a little different this year and what is it you're doing here so so what happens here you had them put up on there put it just like a sonogram of your heel bone are and is there some kind of printout or is it just some numbers are a machine or loomed i honestly do not know that much about gluten i always hear about it what can you tell me about it is a protein found and we try and barley it is not tolerated by people with i mean i pretty much anything that doesn't really mean anything well if you are a person that needs to avoid gluten what it means is you have to avoid the obvious products that are made with so we face bread rye bread but also processed foods that might have very very small amounts of those products in the front and for a lot of soy sauce is have some weed and salad dressing marinated products like that if you can you know there are lots of great options out there it does require some effort at the beginning to just to learn what to look i am back once again disease i'm here to effect and we're doing testing on diabetics or anyone that is not a diabetic in order to help them find a position in the area that can treat it and what we could or should not see of different testing that goes into it but this is one of the steps and i might point out once again throughout this whole footage this is a free event and you get these tests for free it is the time to come to get checked if you especially if you don't have any kind of insurance clumping there's a lot of different things you can find looking at a scam theory of like a fight so basically what this one does is just like the skin on your arm there's different layers to the retina and so this one more able to check for any swelling in the right now or other screening test hemoglobin a one c screening test are used to evaluate people's blood sugar over a period of approximately three months and it tells us a bit about whether or not they had excessive elevations in their blood sugar so use this as a screening to determine whether or not someone might be either at risk of developing diabetes which we call pre diabetes or if they may have actually developed diabetes and we diagnosed that with  see above six point five here as we're doing screenings we're not necessarily diagnosing in those cases where we do see an elevation we would recommend that people actually get a follow up test to confirm the findings here at the expo and then we get them back in touch with their primary care physicians or refer them to a physician to have the full evaluated all right so when i get tested what levels am i looking for here so the level that we're looking at is we're trying to make sure that your blood sugar hope will be for below six point five and that's our diagnostic criteria for type two diabetes and if we see a value sort of above five point eight it does put someone   right now we're waiting because the wait for another test to finish up yeah well the test takes five minutes so i have to wait for the this test to finish and then i can run in a new one so it really doesn't take that much time  our lot less time than it would take for him to be sent out to allow me and come back like most people have at their doctor's office so we do this one just a quick check and then the lab test that takes longer time is more accurate and i'm trying to hold the camera as she's doing that i'm trying to but i'm also trying to look at the camera i know i can feel it why is that why don't so how long does all this part take now believe we'll come back and find out the result ok we are back after how many minutes five minutes five minutes and my results are five point one ok now remind me of the numbers again what they mean so if you're below seven that shows you have good blood glucose control over time that seven is never there any further at diabetics it shows that by your overall doing really well  managing blood sugar so if it's if it's like some point or even higher than that it's starting to creep up into you need to pay more attention to how you're managing your blood sugar from day to day so five point one  what so if you roughly multiply it by twenty votes one of those rules not totally accurate that means most of the time your blood sugar is you know twenty times this so it's going to be about  hundred during the day and one hundred is a pretty good blood sugar to have that's that's normal blood glucose so normally what word would be the best number to the best number well i don't want to talk about pas because everybody is a little bit different there's a lot of individual variation it's based on genetics it's based on fireman it's based on maybe you've had a stressful three months so we're aiming for the best number for each individual  what's the best number i could potentially read fast i would say that five point one is a pretty great number and say you're pretty much there there's no i saw some people today who are numbers down in the forest that's also an excellent excellent number and we've got one more test because there's still a lineup over this way so i am over at the last testing station which is finally went down i'm about to get tested it just worked out that way so i figured i'd get tested going to one of those things were  that's what i need to do the exercise well i am glad to know that all of my tests have been very very very good numbers so that was that these guards told drug screening area that i just finished up as you can so quieted down closing up and i literally was the last one to get tested twelve will be happening around the time this is airs so i hope you'll come and check it out for yourself from nine to three on a saturday when it happens have all your travels become an adventure learn more about the twelfth seattle diabetes expo occurring april fifth two thousand and fourteen from nine am to three pm at the convention center in downtown seattle and of course it's free to attend so go by visiting diabetes dot org slash seattle please visit my archive page at seattle community media dot org slash node slash one two three seven four slash list shows and as always thank you for watching adventure t v  and what about the lines of people so the one guy is sitting down because and another  mentioned earlier hundred dollars worth of material for about two and a half and what does jarvis do you have here i have well i created a hundred eighty flavors so far we do twelve each month and so this this pie we're sampling honey and ginger kind of like to do interesting plays on your favorites of mine one of the tables i came across was this gentleman and i saw him last year as well we'll talk to him but it was