REAL FACTS ABOUT DIABETES

• DIABETES MELLITUS commonly known as diabetes is directly related to high blood sugar either because the body can not produce enough insulin or the body can not utilize the insulin. Globally as of 2010, an estimated 285 million people have type 2 diabetes, making up about 90% of all diabetes cases.
• Diabetes is the number one cause of kidney failure in the world. Besides this every year it is responsible for 5% or 5 million blindness in adults and one million limb amputations. Diabetes is also an important cause of heart disease, stroke and cataract.
• For at least 20 years, diabetes rates in North America have been increasing substantially. In 2010, nearly 26 million people have diabetes in the United States alone, from those 7 million people remain undiagnosed. Another 57 million people are estimated to have prediabetes.                                                                                               
• Diabetes was one of the first diseases described with an Egyptian manuscript from 1500 BCE mentioning “too great emptying of the urine”. The first described cases are believed to be of type 1 diabetes. Indian physicians around the same time identified the disease and classified it as madhumeha or "honey urine", noting the urine would attract ants. The term "diabetes" or "to pass through" was first used in 230 BCE by the Greek Appollonius of Memphis. The disease was rare during the time of the Roman empire, with Galen commenting he had only seen two cases during his career.
• DIABETES comes from a latin word which comes from an ancient greek word which in turn is derived from yet another greek word....(diabainein)
•  Do you know that cats and dogs also tend to develop Diabetes? with females being at higher risk.
• Diabetes complications tends to affect the eyes, kidneys.nerves and usually lead to foot complications even amputation
• Type 1 diabetes can occur in an older individual due to destruction of the pancreas by alcohol, disease, or removal by surgery. It also results from progressive failure of the pancreatic beta cells, the only cell type that produces significant amounts of insulin.,People with type 1 diabetes require insulin treatment daily to sustain life.
•  Exercise: Regular exercise, in any form, can help reduce the risk of developing diabetes.