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Help Us Kiss Diabetes Goodbye

Target: President Barack Obama
Sponsored by: American Diabetes Association

One in three children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime. Diabetes is serious and its complications are deadly, which can include an increased risk of heart disease, nerve damage, blindness, amputations and death.

Diabetes is growing at an alarming rate. Nearly 24 million children and adults are living with this disease and an additional 57 million people have pre-diabetes. This epidemic needs to be stopped.

We need action to change the future of diabetes. Sign the petition to urge President Obama to pay close attention to the prevention and eradication of diabetes.

deadline: 1-1-2010
goal: 20,000

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Dear President Barack Obama,

One in three children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime. With this diagnosis brings an increased risk of heart disease, nerve damage, blindness, amputations and death.

I am asking you to help:
- reduce burden of diabetes and other chronic diseases in America;
- provide accessible, adequate and affordable health care coverage for all;
- improve the quality of health care for people with diabetes; and
- ensure all individuals are treated equally and fairly by the health system.

This is the only way to change the future of diabetes in our country.

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[Your name here]

We took action on “Help Us Kiss Diabetes Goodbye”!

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4:27 pm PST, Nov 20, Name not displayed, California

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12:30 am PST, Nov 20, Mayra Salas, California

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5:34 pm PST, Nov 19, Ellen Scofield, Florida

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11:10 am PST, Nov 17, Joy Ellis, Texas

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6:44 am PST, Nov 17, Adrienne Dollyhigh Gardner, North Carolina

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5:09 pm PST, Nov 15, Robert Lyday, California

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4:22 pm PST, Nov 15, Sara Zessar, Colorado

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3:03 pm PST, Nov 15, Gail Starr, LSCW, CDE, Florida
I am a certified diabetes educator and will gladly change careers when a cure is found. Thank you for your efforts to make this a better world.

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11:59 am PST, Nov 15, Jake Pipp, Wisconsin

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11:58 am PST, Nov 15, Charles Emminger, Kentucky
Its a horrible and terrible desease. Ive seen first hand what the extreme end is to having it

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9:03 am PST, Nov 15, Kevin Hughes, Connecticut

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4:29 am PST, Nov 15, Linda Taylor, California

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10:38 am PST, Nov 14, Noreen Flowers, Colorado
We need the FDA to discontinue approval use of EXCITOTOXINS in our food supplies via corporations, medicines for diabetics, and all other sources, including supposedly healthy supplements such as liquid L-Carnitine sole by General Nutrition Centers.

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8:35 am PST, Nov 12, Norma Rivera, California

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11:17 pm PST, Nov 11, Amanda Rowten, New Mexico
My uncle and father both have diabetes,and I worry about them everyday.

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7:25 pm PST, Nov 11, Robert Mills, Massachusetts

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5:31 pm PST, Nov 11, Jennifer Flory, Georgia

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