Diabetes Awareness With John Ratzenberger and the WRI

Filed in archive Information , Resources on July 14, 2009

Will Rogers Institute is a non-profit organization that has been around since 1936 - honoring the memory of Will Rogers by promoting and engaging in medical research while educating the general public on topics of health and fitness.

We all recognize the Will Rogers messages from movie theaters, but now WRI is taking their message to the web! Through a very unique campaign, WRI is offering Bloggers the exclusive opportunity to share some important Diabetes tips and information for readers of this blog.

For this very special campaign, Will Rogers Institute is teaming with John Ratzenberger, best-known for playing mail carrier, Cliff Clavin on Cheers. John has spent the last 14 years of his life promoting health literacy and informing as many people as possible about the warning signs of diabetes. Ratzenherger's son has Type 1 Diabetes, and understands the importance of catching warning signs early.

As you know, it is important to take notice of these warning signs at any age, as Type 2, or adult-onset occurs later in life. Did you know that diabetes kills four times as many people as breast cancer and AIDS combined? Four times!! And costs $92 billion every single year in after-care costs such as: dialysis, blindness, amputations, and prosthetics.

To hear from Ratzenberger about his mission to educate as many people as he can about Diabetes, please watch and this very special announcement.

WRI is also offering readers the opportunity to receive your very own free pamphlet with important Diabetes information, titled: "What You Need to Know."

To order, simply visit here and while you're at the website, definitely check out and be encouraged to learn more about the ways in which you can get involved and support WRI. It is through the help and aid of the general public that keeps programs like this going!

For more information, check out www.wrinstitute.org.