Diabetes in the Raw

I have listed the most common food-related diseases, and in a nail-biting decision, I have decided to go with diabetes because it is so wide spread and common. So, I've already discussed the basics of diabetes, so now I have to get into the extremely complicated, twenty-letter-long words, and medical speech that not even I understand and I'm writing about it. So I'm going to try to keep it as simple as possible. There is type 1 diabetes which is when the body doesn't make enough insulin, and then there is type 2 diabetes which is when the body simple rejects the insulin being produced by the body. The cause of diabetes depends on the type you have. The cause of most type 2 diabetes is genetics and lifestyle. The cause of most type 1 is simply genetics, but usually you can have diabetes but you won't know, or it won't take effect, until it is triggered by a illness or infection. The most common infection to trigger diabetes is Coxsackie B4 Virus. To help monitor a diabetics blood sugar, they use a blood sugar meter.
The meter does simply that, it takes a sample of the user's blood and measures the sugar levels. Common side effects of diabetes is polydipsia (increased thirst) and polyphagia (increased hunger). Symptoms can increase rapidly and become very severe. Watching what a diabetic eats and excersising drastically lower the severeness of the side effects. The side effects can also increase slowly and sometimes not even appear at all. Other strange side effects are going to the bathroom too often, memory loss, and fainting. Diabetics help their symptoms by constantly monitoring their blood sugar and keeping constant insulin shots to keep their body stable. If they falter in any of these daily affairs, then the symptoms rise drasitcally.