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September 17 • 2015

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pproximately 40,000 people
per year are diagnosed with
type 1 diabetes (T1D) in the
United States and will require insulin
injections or pumps for the rest of their
lives. By 2050, 5 million people in the
U.S. are expected to have T1D, includ-
ing nearly 600,000 youth.
The local chapter of the
Juvenile Diabetes Research
Foundation (JDRF), the
leading global organization
for T1D research, will host
the JDRF One Walk at the
GM Tech Center in Warren
on Sunday, Sept. 27, in an
effort to turn "Type One
into Type None
Among the 5,000 partici-
pants will be Eli Ribiat, 13, Eli Ribiat
of West Bloomfield.
At age 11, Eli's water
intake doubled, followed by
leg cramps that would wake
him up in the middle of
the night, along with pain-
ful headaches and stomach
aches. His family took him
to the doctor and, through
urine tests, they learned
of his T1D diagnosis two
months before his 12th
birthday.
Since his diagnosis, Eli
has been on a mission to raise aware-
ness for this life-changing disease.
This year, he served as a JDRF Youth
Ambassador and shared his story at the
Westin Detroit for the JDRF One Walk
Corporate Breakfast.
"JDRF is important to me because
millions of people worldwide are affect-
ed by type 1 diabetes," said Eli, who cel-
ebrated his bar mitzvah over the Labor
Day weekend. "One in 250 kids in
Michigan alone every year will get type
1. We need funding, and we are so close
to a cure all we need is a little bit more
of a push. It's good to help newly diag-
nosed kids know that if they stay on top
of it, diabetes is a manageable disease.
You shouldn't let it hold you back from
doing the things you want to do!"
His mom, Jennifer Ribiat, has advice
for parents.
"After Eli was diagnosed, I was a
complete mess," she said. "I thought,
`How am I going to do this?' Unless
you're a parent of a kid with type 1 or

have type 1, you don't fully understand
what people living with type 1 go
through on a daily basis. Find a support
system and use if often:'
For Ribiat, some of that support
comes from a group of local mothers
— most of them are Jewish — who also
have children with T1D.
One of those moms is Lisa
Butler of West Bloomfield,
whose daughter Madison,
11, has T1D and also is a
JDRF Youth Ambassador.
Lisa says she was over-
whelmed by Madison's
diagnosis, but says she got
involved with JDRF quickly.
"They soon became a
great resource for us on how
to best manage this disease,"
she said.
Both the Ribiats and
the Butlers (along with
the Randel family of West
Bloomfield, whose daughter,
Lindsay, also has T1D) will
be leading teams at the local
JDRF One Walk, which is
one of more than 200 com-
munity JDRF walks nation-
wide that bring together
hundreds of thousands of
people each year who share
JDRF's vision to create a
world without T1D. The local chapter
has set a fundraising goal of close to $1
million, which will help fund critically
needed T1D research.
On-site registration for the walk
begins at 8:30 a.m., and the walk begins
at 9:30 a.m., rain or shine. The entire
JDRF One Walk will be an approximate-
ly 1.5 mile stroll through the GM Tech
Center in Warren.
JDRF One Walk is the most powerful
peer-to-peer fundraising program in
the world for T1D, raising more than
$68 million annually. Since 1992, the
event has raised more than $1 billion
dollars for life-changing T1D research
— research that has led to break-
through discoveries, many of which
have already moved into clinical trials
and real-world testing.
To register or donate, go to www.bit.
ly/lNrZ9mk. You can join or donate
specifically to The Hot Shots for the
Butler/Randel team or Eli's I.V. League
for the Ribiat team.

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