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What is Diabetes?

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Risk Factors for Developing Diabetes

Risk factors for developing diabetes

  • More than 20 percent above ideal body weight
  • Lack of exercise
  • Close relative with diabetes - grandparent, parent, sibling
  • Member of a high risk ethnic group - African American, Native American, Hispanic, Asian
  • Having diabetes during pregnancy and/or giving birth to a baby weighing more than nine pounds
  • High blood pressure
  • Abnormal levels of high density lipoproteins (HDL) or triglycerides

Dramatic increase in the number of diabetes diagnoses in the U.S. over the past decade is widely thought to be a result of the American lifestyle. The average American diet contains an overabundance of sweets, fat and processed foods. This type of diet combined with a lifestyle that includes little or no exercise can have a dramatic impact on a person's health.

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