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Article: Awareness and treatment key to living with diabetes. (Health Special Report).
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- Jet
- Article date:
- October 7, 2002
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There's a biblical saying: "... people perish from lack of knowledge ..."
What you don't know about diabetes can ultimately kill you.
If you aren't aware that you, or your children, have diabetes, it can be an insidiously subtle and crafty disease that steals years from life, kills off vitality and relentlessly destroys the body.
Diabetes affects the body's ability to produce or respond to insulin, a hormone that allows blood glucose (blood sugar) to enter the cells of the body and be used for energy.
Diabetes can cause heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure, leg and foot amputations, pregnancy complications, and deaths ...