Daily Archives: July 8, 2010

Diabetes affects sixteen million Americans. The inability to use glucose from food is a characteristic of diabetes. For this reason, the glucose causes damage to organs such as kidneys, heart, nerves and eyes, as it gathers in your bloodstream. It ‘important to note that while diabetes can lead to potentially fatal complications, you can lead a normal life if you keep an eye on some obvious symptoms of diabetes.

Diabetes is available in three forms, type I, type II and gestational diabetes. To be the most common inherited in children is type I. With this condition, the body began to fight the cells that produce insulin because the immune system fails. This means that the body can not function properly in type I diabetic Nearly ninety percent of people who have been diagnosed with type II diabetes.