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Life is not over because you have Diabetes. make the most of what you have

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Be aware

Diabetes is a chronic health condition that affects how your body turns food into energy. Which makes it long lasting. Everyone's body breaks down most of the food they eat into sugar called glucose that gets releases it into your bloodstream. Insulin acts like a key to let the blood sugar into your body's cells for use as energy. When your blood sugar goes up, your pancreas gets signaled to release insulin. When you have diabetes, the body doesn't make produce enough insulin isn't able to use it as well as it should. When the body doesn't have enough insulin, the cells stop responding to insulin, too much blood sugar stays in your bloodstream. Over the course of time, that can lead to serious health problems and issues which are know to be heart disease, vision loss, and kidney disease and more.
Important facts!
•More than 37 million US adults have diabetes.
•1 in 5 of them don't know they have it.
• Diabetes is the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. •Diabetes is the No. 1 cause of kidney failure, lower-limb amputations, and adult blindness.
•The number of adults being diagnosed with diabetes has double in the last 20 years.

New York

3/12/2022

Emily

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/diabetes.html

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