1. Diabetes is not that serious.
In fact,
diabetes causes more deaths than
breast cancer and HIV/AIDS combined,
Still, people with type 2
diabetes—the most common form of the
disease—may go a long while, even
years, before being diagnosed because
they may downplay their symptoms or
write them off to other causes. So if you
are making frequent trips to the
bathroom at night; experience extreme
thirst, overwhelming fatigue, or blurry
vision; or notice that you keep getting
infections, ask your doctor to test you
for diabetes. An early diagnosis can help
ward off complications.


2. Eating too much sugar causes
diabetes .
"Certainly, anybody will
benefit from eating less sugar...because
it is not a nutrient-dense ingredient,"
That said, simply
eating too much sugar does not cause
diabetes.


3. Being overweight causes diabetes.
Just because a person gains weight
doesn't mean she's going to get type 2
diabetes. Having a body mass index
over 25 is just one of several risk factors
for diabetes, but there are many
overweight people who don't ever get
the disease, Still, being
obese—having a body mass index of 30
or more—is considered to be a major
risk factor, and the increase seen in
diabetes diagnoses has coincided with a
dramatic increase in obesity in the
United States, according to the CDC.
Other risk factors for diabetes include
being older than 45, a lack of regular
physical activity, or a family history of
diabetes. You're also at risk if you have
high blood pressure, high cholesterol,
polycystic ovary syndrome, metabolic
syndrome, or acanthosis nigricans (a
condition that causes dark, thickened
skin around the armpits or the neck).
Having suffered from gestational
diabetes during pregnancy or given
birth to a baby weighing more than 9
pounds also raises the risk of the
disease. And African-Americans,
Hispanic Americans, Asian-Americans,
and American Indians are at higher risk
than are Caucasians.


4. Having diabetes means you must
eat foods that are different from
everyone else's .
People with diabetes
don't need to follow a restricted diet but
instead should try to follow the same
healthful eating guidelines as everyone
else, including choosing foods that are
lower in fat, higher in nutrients, and
contain an appropriate amount of
calories, "Everyone
needs to be eating healthier. And if you
haven't followed healthy eating habits
before now, [a diagnosis] is a good
wake-up call to make positive changes,"



5. A diabetes diagnosis means you
automatically need insulin .
That's the
case with type 1 diabetes but not with
type 2 diabetes. In some cases, proper
diet, exercise, and oral medications, if
needed, can keep type 2 diabetes under
control for some time before insulin
becomes necessary,
The key is to make a lifestyle change.
That means no smoking, more healthful
eating habits, and regular exercise.


6. Only older people get diabetes.
These days, children as young as age 5
are being diagnosed with type 2
diabetes, That's a big
change from 20 or 30 years ago. When a
child or adolescent was diagnosed back
then, "you could be almost 100
percent sure that he or she had type 1,"
which is also known as insulin-
dependent diabetes or juvenile diabetes.
Not anymore. To help prevent diabetes
in children, parents should try to
encourage good habits for the entire
family. That means less video game and
TV time, more physical activity, less junk
food, and smaller portions.


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Good one OP. Our pple need 2 b thoroughly educated about dis diabetes thing.

Provie: Good one OP. Our pple need 2 b thoroughly educated about dis diabetes thing.

thank you sire.

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Thumbs up man, that was educative.some cases r even terribble (type 2) such that the immune system treats the introduced INSULIN as an "enemy" i.e it attacks it.i have seen this in a 5 year old boy!!!

opei: Thumbs up man, that was educative.some cases r even terribble (type 2) such that the immune system treats the introduced INSULIN as an "enemy" i.e it attacks it.i have seen this in a 5 year old boy!!!

yeah, it happens, although it's rare but it does, hailings mann,