10 Tips About Diabetes
- Diabetes is a chronic, long-lasting health condition that affects how your body turns food into energy.
- It is a serious complex condition that can affect the entire body.
- Most of the food you eat is broken down into sugar, also called glucose, and released into your bloodstream.
- When your blood sugar goes up, it signals your pancreas to release insulin.
- Insulin acts like a key to letting the blood sugar into your body cells for use as energy.
- If you have diabetes, your body either doesn't make enough insulin or cannot use the insulin it makes as well as it should.
- When there isn't enough insulin or the cell stops responding to insulin, too much blood sugar remains in your bloodstream, and so
- Over time that can cause serious head health problems such as heart disease, vision loss, kidney disease and diabetic foot sepsis, and loss of limb through amputation.
- There isn't a cure yet for diabetes, but losing weight by eating healthy foods, mainly plant-based, and being active can really help you remain healthy and may even help reverse the disease also.
- Also, taking diabetes medications on a regular basis and keeping up with your health care appointments on a regular basis can help reduce the impact of diabetes on your life.
