Diabetes: Are You At Risk? Find Out Fast

Posted by Lynn Polmanteer on March 22, 2012 under Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Making choices

As a Registered Dietitian at the Friedman Diabetes Institute in New York City, I participate in many outreach events to raise awareness about diabetes. Without a doubt, the most common questions I get during these events are:

“What exactly is diabetes?” and

“Am I at risk for developing diabetes?”

These are important questions to a nation dealing with an explosion of prediabetes and diabetes. So let’s get started by covering the basics and you can follow-up by taking a quick, informative, online test from the American Diabetes Association’s website.

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