World Diabetes Day
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The insulin resistance and associated morbidity from which I suffer is primarily an inhereted trait from my father's side of the family and it has caused me no end of grief from a late discovery/treatment by various persons rendering medical treatment to me over the years through the various attempts to treat it on my own.
Regardless, it is an illness with characteristic problems with which I'd just as soon never have been bothered ... but I must deal with reality and it is a part of my existence.
Today is World Diabetes Day an international awareness campaign for diabetes mellitus held annually on this day of the year under the auspices of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF).
The type 2 (adult onset) Diabetes I have is preventable and treatable and becoming a predominate worldwide health issue. Type 1 (juvenile onset) Diabetes cannot be prevented but can be treated with insulin.