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Call 211 or visit the website www.diabetescc.org for locations and schedules of local diabetes education programs.

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Visit www.diabetes.org for more information on diabetes and links to other useful diabetes websites.

Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes!

Can be treated with a good diet, exercise, and medication.

• Body does not make enough insulin
• Insulin not used the right way
• Can happen at any age
• Overweight people are at greater risk

• A problem with the body’s defense (immune) system that causes it to attack the insulin-making cells in the pancreas
• Family History of Type 1 Diabetes

• The body makes little or no insulin
• Must take insulin shots to live
• Usually diagnosed before the age of 20

• Your body turns some of the food you eat into sugar called glucose
• Insulin helps turn sugar into energy
• Too much sugar in your blood is called diabetes