Always nice to know that you are not alone in the world. Even easier to get sick in the company and in the company of famous people - almost pleasant. Diabetes affects people without looking at age, sex, nationality and profession. Many celebrities have suffered and are suffering from diabetes, but ordinary people can do not even guess so well they control their disease. Let's get acquainted with some of them, taking the information from open sources.

• Bobby Clarke three years was fond of hockey, thirteen - sick with diabetes of the first type, but it did not prevent him to realize his dream: he became an outstanding professional hockey player in Canada, NHL star. He believes that a balanced diet and a serious sport help him to live a full life despite diabetes.
• Aiden Bale, suffering from diabetes, while on insulin injections, crossing North America by staging a marathon six and a half thousand kilometers. Later it at their own expense created Diabetes Research Foundation.
• Ella Fitzgerald - a symbol of jazz music for many years, and was sick with diabetes. She lived up to seventy-nine years, of which only the last four could not sing, struggling with vascular complications of his terrible disease, taken away from her at the end of the life of both legs.
• George Mine - Nobel Laureate in Medicine in 1934. He was the first diabetics who got this award.
• John Paul Stapp - took part in the missile race and was considered the fastest man in the world.
• Lydia Ehevariya - actress, known for roles in movies and the fact that she received a prison sentence of 208 years for the murder of her husband - a producer, but was released from prison for health reasons - she has diabetes Diabetes - threatening and incurable disease   the first type.
• Bill Talbert ten years was ill with diabetes, however, became a famous tennis player in the United States, won the thirty-three national titles. He lived with diabetes for seventy years, has written autobiographical book "Game of Life" and died in eighty years.
• Piers Anthony, a science fiction writer, publishes two books a year, provided, is married and has two adult daughters. Copes with diabetes using running, diet and positive mood.
• Volontir Mikhail, a Russian actor, also suffers from diabetes of the first type, that does not prevent him from acting in many films and perform complex tricks on their own.
• Vladimir Strakhov, Director of the Institute of Physics of the Earth, suffering from Type II diabetes, 65 years old, in 1996, declared a two-week hunger strike to get money from the state for the purpose of payment of wages to employees of the institute.
• Nikolai Dmitriev, suffering a diabetes of the first type, is a professor of medicine and spends many hours of operation under the control of the microscope.
• Matthias Steiner, born in 1982, from 2000 on insulin The principles of action of insulin - the science of saving lives   - Weightlifter is the Olympic champion in Beijing.
• Randy Jackson, a US judge has diabetes of the second type. Once the diagnosis has lost, surgery on the stomach and do yoga.
• Salma Hayek - actress, who developed gestational diabetes during pregnancy, after birth has passed. Now she is at risk for Type II diabetes.
• Jay Cutler, the defender of "Chicago Bears" suffer from diabetes of the first type since 2008, it is on insulin injections, according to their disease controlled and continues to play.
• KING - a diabetes of the second type, and successfully cope with it.

Have diabetes as Feodor Chaliapin, Yuri Nikulin, Elvis Presley, Thomas Edison, HG Wells and Ernest Hemingway.

Svetlana Shimkovich

Diabetes affects about three percent of the world's population - more than a hundred million people. Every fifteen years the number of patients with the disease doubles, in connection with which the company is actively working to find effective and simple medicines would bring healing to people.

However, diabetes - is not a new disease. It is known for a long time, as evidenced by extant documents.

Mention of diabetes in ancient documents

The first documentary evidence of the existence of diabetes found in the Ebers Papyrus, the oldest found in medical treatises dating from 1500 BC. It follows that the three and a half thousand years ago, Egyptian doctors already knew diabetes and tried to treat him.

The next mention of diabetes is the medical work that Aulus Cornelius Celsus wrote at the turn of epochs. He talks about the disease in which the patient urinates profusely, and is caused, in my opinion, the poor performance of the intestine, unable to digest food as it should.

Areteus doctor, who lived in Rome at the beginning of our era, for the first time gave a complete description of the clinical symptoms of diabetes, it also belongs to and the name of this disease, "diabetes" (pass through). According to the observations Areteusa, the liquid in large quantities consumed by patients, "torrent" leave their body, a sort of "passing through" the patient's body. He wrote that diabetes is more common in women, whose life is painful and short. In the second century AD, the Greek physician Galen called urinary diarrhea disease and considered it a consequence of kidney atony.

Tibetan Buddhist canon Chzhud-shek established in the eighth century, describes the so-called diabetes that occurs due to improper diet and lifestyle coupled with hypothermia, contributing to a loss in the urine of human nutritional juice. Avicenna, Arab physician, created in 1024, "Canon of Medicine". In it, he notes that diabetes pulls lots of fluids from the body, resulting in tabes, and he called kidney disease. The famous doctor Paracelsus, who lived in the middle of the last millennium, considered diabetes pathology of the whole organism, which interferes with the formation of salts that irritate the kidneys and disrupts their work.

Thus, diabetes already knew thousands of years ago. Not only does diabetes Diabetes - threatening and incurable disease   successfully diagnosed, it also tried to treat. The doctors of the time was divided into two types of diabetes:

• First, there is in adolescence, treatment did not yield
• the second, which is manifested in mature people who successfully respond to treatment with the help of exercise, a diet based on starvation and plants with hypoglycemic properties, such as pomegranate, walnuts, blueberries Benefits and harms of blueberries: the health of the forest , Strawberry leaves, stinging nettle, flax seed Flax Seed: Home doctor Color lime, onion and garlic Garlic health: almost a panacea .

Key dates in the history of diabetes

• 1642 - Virsungov the first time gave a description of the pancreas.
• 1674 - Thomas Willis said first sweet taste of urine, suggesting propotevanie sugar in the urine from the blood.
• 1688 - Brunner described the hunger and thirst in the experimental dogs after removal of their pancreas.
• 1776 - Dobson, an English doctor, found that the sweetness of the urine gives sugar, and since then the disease was officially named "diabetes".
• 1796 - Rollo justified the need for a special diet for people with diabetes.
• 1815 - Chevrel identified the presence of glucose in the urine of diabetics.
• 1835 - Ambrozioni found that elevated blood sugar of diabetics.
• 1854 - Virchow suggested that the pancreas is able to secrete.
• 1869 - Langerhans described in pancreatic tissue specific area now known as the islets of Langerhans, which is much later, scientists have found, are located the cells producing insulin.
• 1880 - the first Lancer divided diabetes into two groups - giving in dietetics and deadly.
• 1901 - Sobolev showed that the islets of Langerhans produce substance X, which is a regulator of blood sugar, and subsequently offered to produce the X factor (insulin) in pancreatic tissues of calves.
• 1922 - Banting and Best got ayletin - the founder of modern insulins and the lives of many of the doomed people were saved.

Svetlana Shimkovich