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| Diabetes Epedemic |
 Diabetes is a disease that affects almost 21 million children and adults in the United States and over 170 million people worldwide. 15 million have already been diagnosed with the desease, however 6 million people have diabetes without knowing. This is called pre-diabetes and that number is growing by the day. The danger with pre-diabetes is that it can cause heart and circulatory problems, and since millions of people do not know about their disease, this will cause serious health problems for them in the future. In the last two decades, people with diabetes has doubled around the world. If this trend continues, people with diabetes will reach 380 million in 2025. Unfortunately governments have done little to stop this epedemic.This is a disease in which the body is unable to produce or properly use insulin, which is a hormone that is needed to convert the sugar and starches in your body into energy. This sugar is called glucose and when your body is unable to produce insulin the glucose backs up in your bloodstream causing your blood sugar levels to raise much higher than normal. There are two types of diabetes:
• Diabetes 2 – Also known as Adult-onset or non-insulin diabetes. This type of diabetes happens when you are an adult, although many younger people, even children, are developing Diabetes 2. Although you do produce insulin, you usually don’t produce enough or you have insulin resistance. This usually happens when you overweight, have a family history of diabetes, or have had gestational diabetes. People with both types of Diabetes have certain symptoms that they develop. These include: Extreme thirst, frequent urination, weight loss or weight gain, frequent or intense hunger, blurry vision, irritability and anger, numbness or tingling in your hands or feet, frequent bladder infections, wounds that don’t heal and unexplained fatigue. In some cases, specifically with Type 2 Diabetes, many people show no symptoms at all, which is a problem in itself because they don’t know to get the help that they need. Type 2 Diabetes comes on gradually so it could be years before you develop any real signals, and by that point it can be too late.
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