Complications of Diabetes
Many people have heard stories of vandals pouring sugar into someone's fuel tank, which they believed would flow through the fuel system and into the engine clogging and gumming up vital systems that cause the engine to seize up and fail, resulting in irreparable damage to the automobile. Someone being able to damage an engine by pouring sugar into an automobile fuel system has been proven to be untrue, but in a very real way it is true where your body is concerned. Our bodies are not automobiles, but where those would be vandals failed, diabetes succeeds by causing excess sugar (glucose) to build up in our bloodstream which then clogs and damages the systems that keep us running!
The effects of all that extra sugar in our system can be very harmful to our blood vessels, nerves, internal organs, cause blindness and rob us of our overall quality of life. Should diabetes not be diagnosed and treated in a timely manner it can even rob us of life itself. The complications of diabetes can be severe and life-threatening, however your odds of developing them can be greatly reduced by observing five main areas of preventive actions to help keep diabetes and its effects under control. Each one of these actions relates to the betterment of overall health but particularly the health of the heart and circulatory system, seeing that many of the effects of diabetes can be directly related to the health of the heart and blood vessels. We call this the " Five Star Plan of Action for Diabetics" and due to their importance this advise will be seen and stressed repeatedly throughout this web site. The elements of the "Five Star Plan" are:
• Control Blood Sugar Levels
• Control Cholesterol Levels/Triglycerides
• Reduce High Blood Pressure
• Eat a Healthy Heart Diet
• Follow a physician approved exercise program
Whenever you see a 
symbol it refers to one of three common factors that seem to contribute to most complications of diabetes that we call "The Triple Threat" which includes Smoking, Alcohol abuse and Drugs.
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