Tom Hanks once said, “When I work, a lot of times I have to lose weight, and I do that, but in my regular life I was not eating right, and I was not getting enough exercise. But by the nature of my diet and that lifestyle - boom! The end result was high blood sugars that reach the levels where it becomes.” One of the greatest and richest actor has admitted that he was a 'total idiot' for eating an unhealthy diet when he was younger, which he blames for his diabetes diagnosis but now he's looking back on his life and habits and realizing what lead him to diabetes. Diabetes is a condition when there are too much of glucoses in the blood. There are several types of diabetes such as Type 1 diabetes and Type 2 diabetes. Diabetes can occur by many …show more content…
And it can leads to eyes problem, kidney damage, nerves damage, and heart disease for the long-term complications. People of all ages should be aware of diabetes because people with diabetes have a higher risk for many dangerous health conditions such as heart attack, kidney disease, amputations, and vision loss. We should be aware of diabetes because it might be very dangerous if we ignore it. Diabetes might occur to anyone no matter how old you are. Diabetes is now become a global epidemic, with one in 12 adults suffering from the condition. There was a warning from experts that current number of diabetics is expected to rise by 55 percent in the next two decades unless people start to change how they eat and exercise. National Diabetes Statistics Report in 2014 had shown that 208,000 Americans under age 20 are estimated to have diagnosed diabetes, approximately 0.25% of that population and in 2008—2009, the annual incidence of diagnosed diabetes in youth was estimated at 18,436 with type 1 diabetes, 5,089 with type 2 diabetes. And the overall numbers of …show more content…
For many people, being diagnosed with diabetes can make some positive lifestyle changes. The diabetic diet encourages you to eat fruits and vegetables, whole grains, lean sources of protein and low-fat dairy. It can be difficult to motivate yourself to exercise, and having diabetes is an important reason to get up and move aerobics class, walk during lunch, find a diabetes support group where members get together and exercise. Having diabetes means not only knowing what our blood sugar levels are every day, but we can also read our body and recognizing when our sugar levels may be too low and paying attention to changes in our vision, feeling in our fingers and toes, energy level, body weight, and more. In present, Millions of people have diabetes, and there are support groups in both real and online world where we can share our fears, concerns, ideas, recipes, and other topics about diabetes. Although having diabetes is not a party, we can still celebrate making new friends with others who share our overall