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Myths About Diabetes

You've been diagnosed with diabetes. Your life is so doomed you cannot even choose who you associate with anymore. Right? WRONG! Many of the myths surrounding diabetes are simply untrue. Let's take a look at four of those myths.

Myth number 1

People who have diabetes have to eat especially prepared diabetic foods and can never eat sweets or chocolate or even drink a glass of wine with a special meal. In fact, diabetics can't eat 'special meals' because those kinds of meals hold too much fat and other things the diabetic can't have.

Answer: This myth is totally inaccurate. A diabetic must be careful what they eat because their body does not produce insulin as a normally healthy person's body does. Insulin is the hormone the body uses to either burn the foods we eat as energy or store those...

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