Reality Check in the Paper

I was reading through the paper last night and I found an article/advertisement for healthy living about diabetes.  I try to not to dwell on the negatives about my 3 year old’s diagnoses of type 1 diabetes.

Some times I find things that remind me what we really are up against in this fight for a cure.

IT'S WORSE THAN YOU THINK

It reads:

IT’S WORSE THAN YOU THINK

More people die per year from diabetes than breast cancer.  In fact diabetes is a leading cause of death by disease in Canada.  That’s because diabetes puts you at a higher risk for heart disease, stroke, kidney failure and other serous health complications.  The rest of the article is about type 2 diabetes which is 90% of all diabetes cases and it is preventable much different from type 1 diabetes.