The epidemic of diabetes is so widespread that there would be scarcely be anyone who does not know someone with diabetes even if they do not have it themselves. Often that person is a family member or a close friend.
So why should you bother about diabetes?
If you have friends or family members who have to live all their lives with diabetes, they will always need support and understanding about their disorder. Would you not like to give them that support and encouragement so that they are able to manage their diabetes and live as normal and healthy a life as possible without feeling like a pariah?
More importantly, if you have a family member who has diabetes, there are good chances that you too will get diabetes. Would you like to know what your chances are? Click here.
Even if you find that your chances are just 25%, you could shrug it off by saying that that is just one in four. But how do you know you would not be that one in four!
Today it is widely believed that one can avoid or at the very least delay the onset of diabetes through some simple lifestyle changes. But for you to be motivated to make these changes, you must know about diabetes.
So what is diabetes?
For a quick interactive look at the basics of diabetes, click here.
For a more detailed discussion on diabetes, click here
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