About Diabetes

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Whether you're newly diagnosed, have had type 1 or type 2 diabetes for a while, or you're helping a loved one, you’ve come to the right place. This is the way to start learning how you can live a healthier life—with the tools, health tips, and food ideas you need. Wherever you are with diabetes, you can still live your best life—and we have the steps you can take to get there. All you have to do is take action and stick with it.

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Warning Signs and Symptoms of Diabetes

Common symptoms of diabetes:

• Urinating often

• Feeling very thirsty

• Feeling very hungry—even though you are eating

• Extreme fatigue

• Blurry vision

• Cuts/bruises that are slow to heal

• Weight loss—even though you are eating more (type 1)

• Tingling, pain, or numbness in the hands/feet (type 2)

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Understanding Type 1 Diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. Testing, coupled with education about diabetes symptoms and close follow-up, has been shown to enable earlier diagnosis and to prevent diabetes ketoacidosis.

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Understanding Type 2 Diabetes

In type 2 diabetes, your body does not use insulin properly—this is called insulin resistance. At first, your beta cells make extra insulin to make up for it. Over time, your pancreas can’t make enough insulin to keep your blood glucose at normal levels. Type 2 diabetes develops most often in middle-aged and older adults but is increasing in young people.