Juanita Barnes

HELLO MORENO VALLEY!

Moreno Valley, while spending three days at Riverside Community Hospital in the month of May, I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. Since that time, it has been on my mind to learn all I can about it. I have since learned these few things about the disease. There is no cure and it is on the rise. Here in the Inland Empire the health officials state that diabetes continues to spread as the nation's leading disease. The public health organization announced last week that nearly 24 million people have this potentially deadly disease. Diabetes can be managed with medicine, exercise and good nutrition. Diabetes does not only affect those who are overweight; thin active people are also at risk experts say. It was stated that in 2006 Diabetes was the nation's seventh leading cause of death. I plan on taking care of myself so that it does not progress rapidly. I am doing as the doctor asked me to, I eat normal, but I have changed some things in my diet. I know if we pray and change things that God will help us. I have learned that diabetes should be taken as seriously as heart disease. A lot of the patients are much younger around the age of 12 -14 so let us help one another but most of all our children and grandchildren. Remember that diabetes is increasing at an alarming rate. It is almost at a crisis point. In Riverside County, diabetes rates rose from 6.1% in 2003 to 8.5% in 2005. This county reported increases in all ages. This is what I was told about diabetes: "It is a Disease caused by above - normal blood glucose levels. Most food becomes glucose (or sugar) which is the body's energy source. Diabetes happens when the body doesn't make enough insulin or can't use its own insulin well enough to get glucose into the cells. This causes a sugar build up in the blood. Diabetes damages blood vessels. It is amazing as to how our lives change. I have come to know that life is very important and I must take good care of it with God's help. Let us eat healthy and live a long blessed life.

This past Sunday was the most powerful Healing and Deliverance at C.O.P.I.M. So many people were delivered and set free strongholds were broken. The Holy Spirit showed up and showed out. What a time that was had by all.

Inland Empire: Save this date on your calendar October 10, 2008, Pastor Jamal Bryant of TBN and the Word Channel will be at COPIM, 1521 South Riverside Ave. Rialto, California. More at a later date.

BE BLESSED,

J.B.