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PREVENTION: This is a genetic illness. However, exercise, healthy eating, visiting your family doctor every year and getting the relevant tests to find out if you have any type of diabetes, can help to prevent or decrease the risks of getting diabetes.

MAIN SYMPTOMS

Excess of urine

Excessive thirst

Constant fatigue

Weight loss

Constantly Hungry

Blurry vision

Poor healing

Interview with Dr. Carol Miyake, Medical Director of the Diabetes Management Program of the Mid Hudson Regional Hospital (In English)

Diabetes can be controlled and prevented but not cured. That is why it is important to take care of this disease from an early age.

L e t´s T a l k H e a l t h

According to the National Diabetes Education Program, it is known that 12.1% of the Latino community in the USA suffers from Diabetes.