(Source: Review Journal, 22 April 2011)
Changing health behaviors is vital for the nearly 26 million Americans with diabetes and the 79 million American adults with pre-diabetes. That's because improperly managed diabetes can bring serious complications, including heart disease or stroke, kidney disease, nerve damage, vision loss or amputation.
However, behavior change is not an easy process. Diabetes affects every area of a person's life, and it takes a considerable amount of time and effort to manage the disease. Some of the most difficult aspects of the disease are learning to change life-long patterns of eating and activity, and adhering to a new monitoring and medication-taking routine. Read more
0 comments:
Post a Comment