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Category: Diabetes

  • #DiabetesAwarenessMonth – Fact 3

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    A person with diabetes must check their blood sugar every day. This involves poking their finder to draw blood and putting the blood in a test strip to receive a blood glucose “number”. A person with diabetes can check their blood sugar upwards of 8 times a day or more. – #PBNFacts #ProjectBlueNovember the quote…

  • #DiabetesAwarenessMonth – Fact 2

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    Type 1 diabetes is NOT caused by eating too many sweets or junk food. It is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the pancreas and the cells that produce insulin. – #PBNFacts #ProjectBlueNovember the quote is from Project Blue November

  • #DiabetesAwarenessMonth – Fact 1

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    Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) is an Autoimmune disease in which a person’s pancreas stops producing insulin, a hormone that enables people to get energy from food. It occurs when the body’s immune system attacks and destroys the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, called beta cells. Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) is a metabolic disorder in which…

  • It is #Diabetes Awareness Month

    It is #Diabetes Awareness Month

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    In many parts of the world, the beginning of November marks the start of a month-long series of activities aimed at raising diabetes awareness and calling for urgent action to tackle the diabetes epidemic. On December 20, 2006, the United Nations (UN) passed a resolution to designate November 14 as World Diabetes Day. The occasion…

  • #DSMA – Acceptance from April 4, 2012

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    Q1. What are the things about living with diabetes that you accept? what are the things that you have trouble accepting? I accept that its a condition that I’ll have for life and that if not kept in check can lead to complications, however what I have issues accepting is that the government and big…

  • Favourites and Motivations – Day 6 – #DiabetesBlogWeek

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    Well its Day 6 of the Diabetes Blog Week and todays topic is… If you have been blogging for a while, what is your favourite sentence or blogpost that you have ever written? Is it diabetes related or just life related? If you are a new blogger and don’t have a favorite yet, tell us…