Diabetes

)American Diabetes Association) As you can see so far that diabetes is a silent killer and I will show you how diabetes effects me and my family.
             I do know a lot of people that have diabetes my best friend and my grandmother and my father they all have diabetes. The one thing that they tell me about this disease they are a very hard disease to control. For the reason of that they have to change a lot of the things they are eating and how much they eat and what they are eating. My grandmother has to live with insulin which she gets when her sugar is too high. My father and my best friend both live off pills on which they will have to take for the rest of there lives. It not easy have to take pills for the rest of there lives. I know for myself that diabetes runs in my family and how it affects them. My aunt that had passed away had diabetes and that is what had killed her for the reason that she was overweight and she really didn't follow the directions on how to keep your diabetes under control. Like right know my grandmother with her diabetes she is going blind. All these things that diabetes does makes me think twice on how I want to live my life. I do try to watch what I eat and how much sugar it contains. But what a lot of people don't seem to know is that carbohydrates makes sugar too. And I myself eat a lot of carbohydrates.
             There are also a lot of myths about diabetes. I'm going to show two of the most common myths and the truth about it. People with diabetes should never eat sugar and sweets. Sugar and sweets do raise your blood glucose, but people with diabetes can safely eat sugar as part of their meal plan. And just to clear up another myth, you can't get diabetes from eating too much sugar. Type 2 diabetes is not serious. This is a very dangerous myth because people who believe it may not take care of themselves. All types of diabetes are serious, and need to be taken seriously by people who have it and their families (Source: Martha M.