Obesity. High Cholesterol. Diabetes. Words or Warning? Alabama is the 3rd most medicated state in America! It almost tied at number 2 with Tennessee. Almost 66% of the population in Alabama is overweight, 235.5 people out of 100,000 have heart disease, and over 12% have diabetes.
Diabetes is a condition that has already hit close to home for me. My father has it and yes, we live in Alabama, so seeing reports like this isn't comforting. But do we let it get us down? Nope! We move forward so we don't end up as a statistic. Yes my father has diabetes, we can't change that, but what we can change is the conditions that come with it if he doesn't take care of himself, and if we don't help him. Will it be hard? Of course! Especially living in the south surrounded by all this soul food, but we can do it.
The life of a diabetic, I've already seen, isn't easy. Counting carbs because you can't go over a certain amount a day, eliminating foods from your diet, and constantly having to know what your blood sugar is? You'd have to be Superman to do it perfectly. Though I'm sure even Superman would be tempted to cheat on his diet.
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