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Protect Your Health by Knowing the Main Diabetes Facts

Protect Your Health by Knowing the Main Diabetes Facts

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Chances are you know someone living with diabetes. You may even be diabetic. It’s important to take diabetes seriously. It may lead to blindness, heart attack, stroke, leg amputation, and kidney failure. In order to protect your health people should know the main diabetes facts.

Protect Your Health by Knowing the Main Diabetes Facts

Why are more people becoming diabetic? Health officials say the worldwide rise is due to a lack of physical activity and more individuals who are overweight.

What’s most important to know? Type 2 diabetes is the most common kind, but you can prevent it with diet and exercise. If you have Type 2 diabetes, you may be able to treat it by changing your diet and exercising more.

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With Type 1 diabetes, your body doesn’t produce insulin, a hormone that allows your body to use or store sugar. With Type 2 diabetes, your body doesn’t use insulin as it should. In either case, this causes other health problems.

Your doctor can give you a simple blood test to see if you might have either kind of diabetes.

There are good ways to treat both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. But it’s lots better to avoid getting Type 2 diabetes by learning how to manage your diet and exercise.

The following infographic looks at the top ten facts about diabetes and is created by online clinic euroClinixUK.

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