“My mom needs insulin to live,” Zoë Massery of Ward, Ark., pleaded in her fundraiser. “I don’t know what I would do without my mom. I am 16 years old and still need my mother. I see the stress that my mom and other people have of wondering if they are going to be able to get the stuff they need to live, along with tons and tons of other bills.

November is National Diabetes Month, heavy foods to children and youth. In Type 2 a time when communities across the diabetes, the cells do not respond to the insulin country team up to bring attention to produced by the pancreas (insulin resistance)..

If you checked one or more of the items on this list, you should talk to your doctor about prediabetes. These symptoms are present in the 88 million Americans who have this condition, which can lead to type 2 diabetes, heart disease, nerve damage and kidney damage.

Healthy brain aging is a topic of growing interest as baby boomers hit retirement age. Based on risk factor statistics, we estimate that there are nearly 10,000 people in the Shreveport-Bossier area (within a 75-mile radius) living with Alzheimer’s disease.

Don’t think that you are alone. The CDC reports that there are over 23.1 million people who have heard those very words. There are still 7.2 million people who have diabetes that have yet to be diagnosed, with an additional 84.1 million adults over the age of 18 that have the early stages of diabetes (pre-diabetes).

According to the Centers for Disease Control, 30.3 million people living in the United States have diabetes – only 23.1 million of those are diagnosed. Another 84.1 million adults have prediabetes. If we combine both numbers, 114.4 million people are either affected by diabetes or prediabetes, which is about 43.