Diabetes Takes A Team:

November is National #DiabetesMonth! Diabetes is a serious health condition affecting about 37 million U.S. adults and youth. Get tips on how to manage your diabetes from @NIDDKgov:

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/community-health-outreach/national-diabetes-month

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Research illustrates that including blueberries in a daily diet offers health benefits that can help manage diabetes, a great reason to grab a few #boostofblue #diabetes

Raising Awareness about #diabetes Today we will take a look at how diabetes impacts cardiovascular health in this short video.

Take Diabetes to Heart: Linking Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease

https://youtu.be/t8FF6OESqVQ
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Continuing with some #diabetesawareness

Let's take a look at how diabetes impacts renal function (kidneys)

Diabetes and your kidneys - DiaBiteSize

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https://youtu.be/PTInW2m_ev8

Snack Time!! Here are a few snack ideas for persons with diabetes. 😋 😋

The 21 Best Snack Ideas If You Have Diabetes

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/best-snacks-for-diabetes

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Hack Your Snack!
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#diabetesawareness Q&A

Question #1 What is prediabetes?

Prediabetes is a serious health condition where blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes.

Approximately 96 million American adults—more than 1 in 3—have prediabetes. Of those with prediabetes, more than 80% don’t know they have it. Prediabetes puts you at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/prediabetes.html

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Question #2
What Causes Prediabetes?

Insulin is a hormone made by your pancreas that acts like a key to let blood sugar into cells for use as energy.

If you have prediabetes, the cells in your body don’t respond normally to insulin. Subsequently, the pancreas makes more insulin to try to get cells to respond.

Eventually, your pancreas can’t keep up, and your blood sugar rises, setting the stage for prediabetes—and type 2 diabetes down the road.

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Question #3
What are the risk factors for prediabetes/diabetes?

You can have prediabetes for years but have no clear symptoms, so it often goes undetected until serious health problems such as type 2 diabetes show up.

It’s important to talk to your doctor about getting your blood sugar tested if you have any of the risk factors for prediabetes, which include:

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Question #4
What is Type I Diabetes?

If you have type 1 diabetes, your pancreas doesn’t make insulin or makes very little. Insulin helps blood sugar enter the cells.

Without insulin, blood sugar can’t get into cells and builds up in the bloodstream. High blood sugar is damaging to the body and causes many of the symptoms and complications of diabetes.

Learn More:
ttps://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/what-is-type-1-diabetes.html

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