Diabetes-Elberta+Cheung

__**Diabetes**__


 * What are diabetes??**

Diabetes is a condition where the amount of glucose in your blood is too high because the body cannot use it properly. This is because your pancreas does not produce any insulin, or not enough, to help glucose enter your body’s cells or the insulin that is produced does not work properly.

**Prevention** To prevent diabetes we need regular exercise and a balance of a regular diet.

I**mpact on sociality** People say that more then 17 million people in the United States has Diabetes. At first, Diabetes was known as a life threatening disease because it was a unknown disease at the beginning and many people have died because of it.

These are some ways to know if you have diabetes or not
 * Symptoms**
 * Frequent urination
 * Excessive thirst
 * Extreme hunger
 * Unusual weight loss
 * Increased fatigue
 * Irritability
 * Blurry vision