Side Effects of Type 2 Diabetes

Since type 2 diabetes is preventable, I thought I’d share with you some motivation to avoid it.  These are some side effects of diabetes.

If you (or someone you love) have type 2 diabetes, you (or they) may:

• Lose your eyesight
• Pee your pants (have a leaky bladder)
• Not get an erection (for the guys, obviously)
• Need a kidney transplant or regular dialysis (very fun, I’ve heard)
• Lose your feet (amputated)
• Have a heart attack
• Have a stroke
• Have pain, tingling, numbness–loss of feeling–in the hands, arms, feet, legs.
• Nerve problems can occur in every organ system, including the digetstive track, heart, and sex organs.  (This occurs in 60-70% of diabetics.)

More fun symptoms of diabetes:

• heartburn
• pain in the upper abdomen
• nausea
• vomiting of undigested food–sometimes hours after a meal
• early feeling of fullness after only a few bites of food
• weight loss due to poor absorption of nutrition or low calorie intake
• abdominal bloating
• lack of appetite
• reflux
• spasms in the stomach area

I don’t mention these things to scare you.  Yes, actually, I do.  Whatever it takes!

All jokes aside, diabetes is serious. Nobody should have to live like that, especially because most diabetes is PREVENTABLE through weight loss, diet and exercise.

Let me see… eat vegetables and walk or… pee my pants, lose my eyesight and maybe my feet.  Tough choice.

Do something NOW before it’s too late.

Losing just 10% of your body weight can prevent diabetes or keep you off diabetic medications. 10 PERCENT.

If you weight 250 pounds, that’s only 25 pounds.

If you need help doing that, get it.  Now.  Today.  From me or someone else, just get it.

If you’d like weekly weight loss coaching, you can order my free cd right now by clicking on this link.

Take care of your body, your health, your family, your life, your eyes and your feet!

For more information on preventing diabetes, click on the following link:

http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-prevention/how-to-prevent-diabetes.jsp