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When you have type 2 diabetes, high levels of sugar build up in your blood. This can lead to serious health complications. That's why controlling your blood sugar is key to managing diabetes. Keeping your blood sugar under control lowers your risk
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By Nancy Klobassa, R.N., and Peggy Moreland, R.N.

Patients often ask whether they can drink alcohol. Most people with diabetes are aware of how different foods affect their blood glucose, but aren't sure if alcohol and diabetes is safe.
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Many people with type 2 diabetes never show any signs. But some people do show symptoms, which are caused by high blood sugar. The most common symptoms of type 2 diabetes are:
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Type 2 diabetes is a disease that affects the body’s ability to metabolize glucose, leading to high blood sugar levels.

“Although genetic factors play a part, the foods we eat significantly shape type 2 diabetes risk,” says Osama Hamdy, MD, PhD, medical director of the Obesity Clinical Program at the Joslin Diabetes Center and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. WebMD spoke with Hamdy about how reading food labels can help you reduce your risk of developing this debilitating disease.
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When you're living with diabetes, what you can't feel can still hurt you. This is especially true when it comes to your feet and the nerve damage you may be suffering. If you've just learned you have diabetes, you should arrange to meet with a podiatrist and talk about the importance
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A condition in which the body needs extra insulin to maintain normal blood sugar levels. Along with abnormal insulin secretion, it is a hallmark of Type 2 diabetes.

Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease, which means that you have it for life. Although there’s no cure, you and your doctor can work together to control your blood sugar, which can help reduce your risk for type 2 diabetes complications.
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Learn how prediabetes leads to type 2 diabetes and how fat plays a role.

Most people mistakenly associate all diabetes with a lack of insulin, the hormone produced by the pancreas that clears sugar (glucose) and fat out of the bloodstream and moves it into the cells after meals. Type 1 diabetes, formerly called juvenile diabetes, is characterized by the inability of the pancreas to make enough insulin. But in prediabetes, which often leads to type 2 diabetes, the problem is not too little insulin but the resistance of cells to the hormone's effects.
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If you have pre-diabetes, you’re at increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes. It means that your blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be called diabetes.
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Before we look at the difference between diabetes 1 and diabetes 2, let's firstly look at diabetes in general: Diabetes, termed diabetes mellitus, is a metabolism disorder. Metabolism refers to how the body uses and digests food for growth and energy.
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