There are some hidden dangers that are associated with the health condition known as diabetes that begin in the body long before an individual is diagnosed. These will continue to become worse over time, and can even become deadly if a person does not take the proper steps to control the complications that have been know to occur in diabetic patients. Statistically, there are numerous diabetic individuals that live approximately 10 years shorter than individuals that do not have this condition. Many times this is due to diabetic patients not knowing about or understanding the hidden dangers and complications that can occur when an individual has this type of serious condition.

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Diabetics have to take special care of their feet, or they can become more susceptible to problems in two ways: reduced blood circulation and nerve damage.

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How many different types of diabetes are there? Lucky enough, only 2. Recently there has been a great increase in the number of people diagnosed with either of the two kinds of diabetes. It is due to this that health care professionals are actively trying to educate the population about the dangerous nature of this health issue. (more…)

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The symptoms of diabetes type 2 can sometimes show up over a long period of time, slowly. Because of this, many people with this serious disease can have it for years and be unaware of it. If you have history of diabetes in your family it is important for you to get tested for it regularly, which is one reason why several health care providers recommend that you get tested for diabetes often.

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Considered to be a rather uncommon condition, Type I diabetes affects nearly one out of every 250 people, both adults and young, living in the USA today. Although the designation “juvenile” has long been associated with this type of the disease, as in Type I juvenile onset diabetes, the condition may actually occur at any time in life, and appears equally among both boys and girls.

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Before I will discuss the healthy BMI for diabetics, I will explain what BMI is. The Body Mass Index (BMI) is a calculation based on your weight and height to determine if you are underweight, an ideal weight, overweight or obese. It’s an indication of the body fat you have. The numbers are fairly accurate but in some circumstances the calculations may not be 100% true. Because these results are purely based on numbers you should talk to your doctor about the number you are given and discuss other factors you should keep in account (such as muscle weight or body type).

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As Pierre Theuma, MD, FACE at the Iowa Diabetes and Endocrinology Center in Des Moines, IA could tell you, type II diabetes is the much more common of the two diabetes forms. With type II diabetes, which outnumbers type I diabetes about 9 to 1, the diabetic does not need insulin and has lots of different symptoms. Some symptoms might include sexual impotence, numbness, fatigue, difficulties in healing wounds, abnormal hunger, burning sensations, abnormal thirst, yeast infections, increased urination and blurred vision.

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Diabetes is a disaterous disease that affects kidneys, intestines and every other organ in the body. It is a problem in which the body is unable to produce or properly use insulin. Insulin, a hormone that is necessary for converting starches, sugar and other food into energy. The precursor of diabetes is unknown and there is no known cure although effective control may be achieved under a doctor’s care.

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