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DIABETES is a chronic
metabolic disorder that adversely affects the body's ability to
manufacture and use insulin, a hormone necessary for the
conversion of food into energy. The disease greatly increases the
risk of blindness, heart disease, kidney failure, neurological
disease and other conditions for the approximately 16 million
Americans who are affected by it. Type I, or juvenile onset
diabetes, is the more severe form of the illness. For more info click here |
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