However, that option increases the likelihood is that your diabetes will progressively get more severe. Eventually you will begin to experience serious and unnecessary complications such as blindness, kidney disease or amputations.
Or, and this is the preferred choice, you can take control of your disease and your life and learn to manage your diabetes.
Self-Management is fundamental to the successful control of diabetes. Defeat Diabetes Foundation supports a patient-empowerment model of diabetes care and education, in which the patient becomes the central player on the treatment team. This is widely recognized as the best model to help diabetics successfully manage their diabetes.
Reprinted with the permission of the Defeat Diabetes Foundation.
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