Diabetes is a serious disease. If diabetes is not well controlled, it causes serious damage to the eyes, kidneys, nerves, and heart.

In this article, you will find some statistics and news on diabetes.

1. According to UN, 246 million people are living with diabetes and 44 million Indians are diabetic. About 5 to 6% of diabetic patients are suffering from Juvenile (Type 1) diabetes.

2. Nearly all patients who are suffering from Type 1 diabetes for 20 years have traces of diabetic retinopathy, which is one of the root cause of blindness.

3. 80% of the people don't take abnormal glucose level in blood seriously.

Why diabetes is becoming an epidemic - opinion from Diabetologists

Diabetes is a silent, painless disease, that's why symptoms of diabetes are often ignored, and the disease remains untreated. Doctors recommend that you need to pay attention to diabetes and cholesterol symptoms so that you can start change of life style.

Sedentary lifestyle is the biggest villain and the cause for diabetes.

Causes of Type 1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is usually diagnosed among children or young adults, and is caused when the pancreas no longer produces insulin because the body's immune system has malfunctioned and attacked the cells that are responsible for insulin production.

It is estimated that 70000 children under 15 years of age develop type 1 diabetes each year.

What is Type 2 diabetes?

Type 2 diabetes on the other hand is a condition resulting from high blood sugar. It is normally found among obese people over the age of 40. The most alarming is that nowadays, even obese children as young as eight to nine years old, go on to develop Type-2 diabetes as that age.

What endocrinologists have suggested to control diabetes?

Eat less, eat right and eat on time

Sleep on time, work while you work and play while you play.