Diabetes

Diabetes is a chronic disease that affects the pancreas. When you have Diabetes the pancreas stops making insulin or doesn’t make enough. Doctors are not sure, but they think this happens when your body is trying to fight a virus. The insulin-making cells look like a virus, so your body begins to start and fight them. Almost 16,000,000 people in the US have diabetes. There are three types of diabetes. Type 1, or insulin dependent diabetes, …

…have to deal with day by day problems like school, family, friends, guys, sports, and keeping my blood level down, eating right, exercising, and making sure that my grades are good. A lot huh!! Teenagers these days think that just because you have something wrong with you that your weird or different. Thats the kind of attitude that makes kids want to hide that they have diabetes and end up not taking care of themselves.