Helsinki, Finland (PRWEB UK) 10 February 2015

Imagine this: Diabetic kids with ideal blood glucose levels. Parents informed of their results automatically in real-time. All results stored on secure cloud service, connecting the family with the healthcare team. How?

With the worlds first motivational and Angry Birds themed Modz blood glucose meter. With Modz, children will finally want to measure consistently and thus achieve improved blood glucose (BG) values. Points and rewards make measuring exciting and reminders help them to be consistent. Parents stay up-to-date with both e-mail and text message notifications and a web-based monitoring and analytics system.

Diabetes is caused by a hormone (insulin) deficiency in your body. Without the hormone you cannot survive. Diabetics need to inject the hormone daily. The right amount of insulin is determined by monitoring blood glucose level on a regular basis (4-12 times/day).

The UK has the worlds fifth highest rate of Type 1 diabetes (T1D) in children aged up to 14 and over 29,000 children in the UK have T1D. Fortunately, the future of diabetes self-care is now here: Modz is finally available in the UK and throughout Europe.

As studies show, the more frequently the BG is measured, the easier it is for diabetics to reach and maintain a good HbA1c value.

We're extremely excited to help motivate diabetic children and young adults to live healthier lives. Modz makes the link between frequent measuring and feeling good very concrete. The meter fosters self-care and helps juveniles become independent, says Modz CEO Vesa Kemppainen.

Take for example thirteen year old Max with a HbA1c of 75 (9%). Within just two months Max was able to lower the level to 56 (7.3%). The most exciting thing, for Max, was achieving higher game levels with the Angry Birds themed game-like monitoring system.

The Company Modz A Finnish health technology company, Modz develops products and services to motivate self-care in close co-operation with users and specialists. Our work has received a great deal of international recognition and awards such as the Red Dot design award.

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Ernestine Griffith, 90, says she's not big on exercise.

But I like this, said Griffith, motioning to a VHS tape titled Rise Up with Rosie.

The Sharpsburg Towers resident gathers in the hi-rise lobby at least twice a week to stretch, sway and shake with friends.

The video is led by senior citizen Rose Metter, who demonstrates chair-based exercises for senior citizens. Carol Huff of Aspinwall initiated the program for Towers residents.

I started coming down about 10 years ago, Huff said. Really, for no other reason than I decided it would be nice for the people who live here.

Every week for the past decade, she greets a small crowd of residents who come to stomp their feet and wave their arms to the Polka-like music blasting from the television.

We've tried other exercise tapes, Huff said, laughing. But they really, really like this one the best. They can do all the moves from memory.

Rise Up with Rosie was produced in 1993 by New Jersey-based Golden Rose Productions, touting exercises specially designed to stretch and tone your body and make you happy to be alive.

Betty Phelan, 90, agrees with that description.

Phelan rarely misses a class. She encourages friends to meet an additional two or three times each week and perform the tape without Huff's guidance.

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Exercise program keeps Sharpsburg seniors on their toes

Ryan Kieffer recently turned 18 and last Wednesday he wanted to exercise one of his rights as an American citizen. So he went to the polls to vote.

It took the Academy of Technology and the Classics senior less than five minutes to cast his ballot for a school board member, a governing board member for Santa Fe Community College and to support the school districts HB33, which renews a 1.5-mill property tax that provides about $9 million a year to maintain school facilities and costs the typical homeowner about $150 a year.

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