This issue we will be talking about is American Diabetes Awareness Month, people may not know but November is the Month of many awareness health issues including American Diabetes Month, Bladder Health Month, Diabetic Eye Disease Month, Lung Cancer Awareness Month, National Epilepsy Awareness Month, National Healthy Skin Month, National Hospice Palliative Care Month, National Stomach Cancer Awareness, Month Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, Prematurity Awareness Month, Transgender Awareness Week (2nd week in November), but this issues we will be focussing on American Diabetes Awareness Month, because granted it is a serious thing some people don’t recognize that November is the month of American diabetes. There are different types of diabetes, type one and type two. 

Type one diabetes is caused by your body attacking itself therefore causing it not to provide enough insulin, this can be diagnosed in children or young adults. Type two diabetes is when your body doesn’t produce insulin well and can’t keep your blood levels stable, according to the CDC website “You may not notice any symptoms, so it’s important to get your blood sugar tested if you’re at risk”.

There are also prediabetic and borderline diabetic. Prediabetes is when your sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to have type 2 diabetes. According to the CDC website, “Prediabetes is a serious health condition that increases your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.” What causes prediabetes? According to the CDC, “ Insulin is a hormone that acts like a key to let blood sugar into cells for use as energy. If you have prediabetes, the cells in your body don’t respond normally to insulin. Your pancreas makes more insulin to try to get cells to respond.

Eventually, your pancreas can’t keep up, and your blood sugar rises. This sets the stage for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes down the road.”  However, borderline diabetes is when your blood sugar level is higher than it should be but not high enough to be diagnosed with diabetes. Borderline diabetics have some insulin resistance due to excess body fat, especially around their belly, and a lack of physical activity.