What is Diabetes?
Diabetes is a disease that occurs when your body fails to produce insulin or produces insulin, but does not use it properly. Insulin is a naturally produced hormone that converts sugar and starches into energy. The cause of diabetes is not known – but there are factors that are known to contribute to the onset of diabetes. These factors include genetics, obesity, lack of exercise, and other environmental factors. There is no cure for diabetes, but the disease can be managed with a healthy lifestyle and, in some cases, injection of the insulin that your body does not produce.
Symptoms of Diabetes
Sometimes diabetes may be hard to diagnose because the symptoms themselves are not serious and sometimes are ignored.
Some of the most common symptoms of diabetes are:
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