Category: My Health
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#DiabetesAwarenessMonth – Fact 5
Although diabetes is a serious and difficult disease, treatment options are improving all the time, and people with diabetes can lead full and active lives. – #PBNFacts #ProjectBlueNovember the quote is from Project Blue November
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#DiabetesAwarenessMonth – Fact 4
The percentage of people with Type 1 diabetes is far less common than Type 2 diabetes, about 90% – 94% of people with diabetes have Type 2. – #PBNFacts #ProjectBlueNovember the quote is from Project Blue November
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#DiabetesAwarenessMonth – Fact 3
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…
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#DiabetesAwarenessMonth – Fact 2
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
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#DiabetesAwarenessMonth – Fact 1
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…
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It is #Diabetes Awareness Month
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…