This is untrue and it has been proven that diabetes kills more people annually than breast cancer and AIDS combined.
A study conducted in 2008 shows that people rate cancer and heart disease higher than diabetes in the severity of health problems.
“The general consensus seems to be, ‘There’s medication,’ ‘Look how good people look with diabetes’ or ‘I’ve never heard of anybody dying of diabetes,’ ” said Larry Hausner, chief executive of the American Diabetes Association, which held the focus groups. “There was so little understanding about everything that dealt with diabetes.”
There is more to diabetes than just insulin production, it effects the whole body. It is usually associated with a poor lifestyle that leads to obesity or other risk factors that are involved.
People can live a normal life with the average life span if they control their diabetes; however some patients say they are too busy to take control of their diabetes and that can lead to complications.
Complications can effect the whole body physically and mentally. As I mentioned before, depression has been proven to have a connection with diabetes. There are many complications with diabetes that can lead to other complications mentally.
According to The New York Times:
Ultimately, diabetes can take a toll from head to toe. In the brain, it raises the risk not only for depression but also for sleep problems and stroke. It endangers vision and dental health. This month, The Annals of Internal Medicine is reporting that the disease more than doubles the risk of hearing loss.
Moving down the body, diabetes can lead to liver and kidney disease, along with serious gastrointestinal complications like paralysis of the stomach and loss of bowel control. Last year the journal Diabetes Care reported that in a sample of nearly 3,000 patients with diabetes, 70 percent had nonalcohol fatty liver disease.
Each year there are about 86,000 amputations that need to be performed due to diabetes because there was poor control over blood sugar levels.
The CDC suggests pre-diabetics to have at least 150 minutes of exercise a week that can lead to 58% drop in risk of developing diabetes. Eating healthier food can help lower the risk for developing diabetes as well. It is important to keep control of you diabetes and keep your blood sugar at normal levels.
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