Diabetes is starting to effect more and more kids each year! Over 23 million Americans have this disease and one fourth don’t even know it. I can only imagine the pain they have to go throw, knowing that if they don’t take care of there body, any day could be there last!

Diabetes is caused by the body ether not getting enough insulin or it not being able to use it right.

What causes diabetes?

If you didn’t already know there is no known cure for diabetes. But there are ways to try to control it or keep it under control.

Here are 3

•Eat a healthy diet

•Check you blood glucose levels when ever needed.

•Take all your shots and pills at the appropriate time

If you are wondering if you are have diabetes, there are ways to tell if you do or not and here are the symptoms for diabetes.-

•Increased thirst

•Increased hunger

•Unexplained fatigue•Unexplained urination problems especially in the middle of the night

•Unexplained weight lost

•Blurred vision

•irritability

Also don’t worry because there is a little chance that you have this disease because it is a receive gene. Which means that your chances are slim that you have diabetes.

Insisting facts about diabetes

•Diabetes causes 6 deaths every minute•Nick Jonas has diabetes

•If the disease remains undiagnosed, symptoms progress to include labored breathing, coma, and death.

•Prediabetes occurs when a person's blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

•Chuck Norris also has diabetes

If you would like to learn more about type diabetes go to the National Diabetes Association’s web site at http://www.diabetes.org!

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