{"id":13506,"date":"2025-10-29T11:42:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/?p=13506"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:42:31","slug":"november-is-diabetes-awareness-month-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/november-is-diabetes-awareness-month-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"November is Diabetes Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is diabetes?<\/strong><br \/>\nPerhaps the first thing to know about diabetes is that it isn&#8217;t just one disease. It&#8217;s actually a group of diseases characterized by high levels of glucose (sugar) in the blood. It may be that the pancreas doesn&#8217;t make enough insulin\u2014a hormone involved in turning food into glucose, which the body uses for energy. Another possibility is that the body isn&#8217;t using insulin effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, the result is too much sugar in the blood. And excessive amounts of blood sugar can harm organs and lead to serious problems.<br \/>\nDiabetes typically strikes in one of three ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Type 1 diabetes:<\/strong> Type 1 usually begins in childhood or young adulthood. It occurs when the pancreas doesn&#8217;t make enough insulin\u2014or makes no insulin at all. That&#8217;s why people with type 1 need to regularly take insulin, often with daily injections. Only about 5% to 10% of adults diagnosed with diabetes have type 1.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Type 2 diabetes:<\/strong> This is the most common type of diabetes. About 90% of adults diagnosed with diabetes have type 2. It is diagnosed most often in adults but is increasingly being found in children. Type 2 occurs when the pancreas doesn&#8217;t make enough insulin or doesn&#8217;t use it properly. Genetics, diet and inactivity are all probable causes. Medicines and sometimes insulin are needed to treat it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gestational diabetes:<\/strong> Some women who&#8217;ve never had diabetes before develop it during pregnancy. Gestational diabetes usually resolves once the baby is born. However, it increases the woman&#8217;s risk for future type 2 diabetes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you are concerned about diabetes or your risk for developing diabetes, please contact your primary care provider to discuss care, treatment or changes you can make today to prevent or reverse this disease.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: American Diabetes Association; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; UpToDate<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is diabetes? Perhaps the first thing to know about diabetes is that it isn&#8217;t just one disease. It&#8217;s actually a group of diseases characterized by high levels of glucose (sugar) in the blood. It may be that the pancreas doesn&#8217;t make enough insulin\u2014a hormone involved in turning food into glucose, which the body uses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":13507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[637],"class_list":["post-13506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicare","tag-diabetes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-1354249154.jpg?fit=2121%2C1414&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZGa-3vQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13509,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13506\/revisions\/13509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}