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- There are two major forms of diabetes.
Type I diabetes always requires daily injections of insulin for life. Type II diabetes can often be controlled through proper nutrition and exercise.
- Only heart disease and cancer kill more people per year than diabetes.
- Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of adult blindness.
- Women are more likely to develop Type II diabetes than men.
- In addition to blindness, diabetes causes kidney disease, heart attacks, strokes, gangrene leading to leg amputation and other serious
complications.
- Nearly 90% of those who develop type II diabetes are obese. In many cses, the symptoms of diabetes would disappear if the person lost weight.
- The symptoms of Type II diabetes tend to be mild. Approximately 50% of those who develop Type II diabetes do not realize they have it.
- Diabetes lessens the chance of a successful pregnancy and increases the risk of birth defects and infant death.
- Diabetes is a major cause of impotence in males of all ages.
- Diabetes is not caused by eating tomm many sweets.
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