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Diabetes Awareness As Christmas has just passed and we are all preparing to celebrate the New Year next week, I figured this was a good topic to discus as we begin looking at New Years Resolutions and most of us have been affected by diabetes at some point. Both of my maternal grand parents had it. I also have some friends that have it. This is my effort to help and contribute to education on the subject. There are two types of diabetes. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease and type two is the buildup of insulin resistance. Prediabetes falls under type two as it is developed over time. Both are caused by a combination of genetics, lifestyle, environmental factors leading to having problems with insulin. The main contributors have been found to be obesity, inactivity, family history, older age, certain ethnicities, and pregnancy.  What is the role of insulin? Insulin is a hormone created in the pancreas when there is a rise in blood sugar in the bloodstream and it acts like a gatekeepe...