November is diabetes awareness month in Canada. Today, there are more than 9 million Canadians living with diabetes or prediabetes. With more than 20 people being newly diagnosed with the disease every hour of every day, chances are that diabetes affects you or someone you know. Diabetes is a chronic, often debilitating and sometimes fatal disease, in which the body either cannot produce insulin or cannot properly use the insulin it produces. This leads to high levels of glucose in the blood, which can damage organs, blood vessels and nerves. The body needs insulin to use glucose as an energy source.
The Muskoka Lakes Public Library in Port Carling has resources to help you cope with diabetes and to help prevent it. Choice menus, cooking for one or two : quick and easy meals and menus to help you prevent or manage diabetes by Marjorie Hollands and Margaret Howard is one such resource offering a meal planning guide and cookbook for people with diabetes and for those looking for help to prevent Type 2 diabetes. Diabetes without drugs : the 5-step program to control blood sugar naturally and prevent diabetes complications by Suzy Cohen is another book that will help you cope with the disease. Based on breakthrough studies, Cohen's program claims to reveal how people with diabetes can reduce their need for prescription medication and minimize the disease's effect on the body.
Art Workshops for Adults with Nancy Gray Ogle 1:30-3:30: Thursday November 17, Painting with Acrylics; Thursday November 24 Portrait Drawing. $30 per class. Students supply their own materials. Registrations must be made in advance by contacting Nancy at 705-764-0212 or ngrayogle@sympatico.ca
Creative Kids Club Saturdays 11-12:30. Children 8 and up welcome. FREE but please pre-register. 705-765-5650.
Book Club Meet on the last Tuesday of each month, September to April, for lively discussions of the selection of the month. Meetings are open to all and take place in the activity room at the Port Carling Branch Library. The next gathering will be on Tuesday, November 29th, when Linda McAuley will present, and the group will discuss, The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson. Hope to see you there!
Pre-School Story Time Tuesdays 10:30-11:30 Port Carling Branch Library. Pre-school stories, rhymes, finger plays, simple crafts. No pre-registration required. Children and adults meet in activity room for the craft of the week then meet upstairs at 11:00 am for stories, movement, and music. Some craft activities can be messy (which makes them FUN!) so please dress your child accordingly.
Kniterary Come out to the Port Carling Branch Library on Thursday afternoons at 1:00. Bring your knitting project or other needlework project and socialize with other crafters. Discuss what you are reading or what you would like to read while enjoying the company of others. All welcome!
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