Burke-Gilman Trail (Image by Bjorn)
By Madeleine Kolb
Type 2 diabetes is scary: it’s a chronic, progressive disease. “Chronic” means that there’s no cure; it doesn’t go away (despite unreliable claims to the contrary you may see on the internet). “Progressive” means that—as the years go by—it gets worse and worse.
Here’s what you have to look foreward to, if you don’t manage type 2 diabetes over the long haul:
- increased risk of a heart attack or stroke,
- irreversible damage to your eyes, kidneys, and blood vessels, and
- blindness, kidney failure, and amputation of all or part of your legs
YOU: Wait a minute. Am I reading this right? A person can have this terrible disease and still be really healthy? (more…)