World diabetes day is an important day for many people. This day is about the World Health Organization trying to grow concerns around the concerns and health threats by diabetes. World diabetes day is the largest diabetes campaign and this campaign has reached over one billion people. The campaign is represented by a blue circle logo, a symbol for diabetes awareness.
World diabetes day is every year on November 14. That’s because it was Sir Fredrick Banting’s birthday, the co-founder of insulin with Charles Best in 1922.
541 million adults are at an increased risk of type 2 diabetes and in 2021 diabetes was 966 billion dollars in health expenditure.
Diabetes includes type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is when your body lacks insulin or the pancreas doesn’t produce insulin. Type 2 is when the pancreas creates less insulin than the body uses so your body becomes resistant to insulin.
World diabetes day has many events around the world. Around 618 events happen for world diabetes day and promote learning about diabetes. 106 countries do these events for world diabetes day. One in ten adults are living with diabetes. 537 million adults are living with diabetes
Many students, teachers, and staff have diabetes at Palmer Ridge. Some ways to reduce type 2 diabetes could be by maintaining a healthy weight. Some ways to keep a healthy weight could be through regular physical activity also a balanced diet. But you can get the risk of type 2 by your family’s history of diabetes. Mrs. Vanderbush Palmer Ridge school nurse said “Some kids every year at Palmer Ridge have type 1 diabetes and the kids here know how to manage it pretty well and to handle type 1 it is easier to use an insulin pump.” Her oldest son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of six but today he is in college and has learned how to manage it very well. She also said, ” Type one diabetes is hard to have but very manageable to handle.” So the challenges of having diabetes are difficult to have but the teachers and students can manage it very well.