Diabetes is a disease where your body cannot process the sugar from the foods you eat. This sugar or glucose accumulates in your blood. Eventually you die from some sort of cardiovascular disease. This occurs for two different reasons. The first is your Pancreas no longer produces Insulin which is called type I diabetes. A symptom of this disease is weight loss as your body can’t store the sugar. As second called type II diabetes is where your body produces insulin but the cells cannot process the glucose. A symptom of type II is excess weight. When you go to the doctor they normally measure your blood sugar. You can also measure it yourself with a blood glucose meter. I wish I had done this earlier in my life:
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