Get rid of diabetes myths!

Diabetes is a metabolic disease in which the person has high blood glucose (blood sugar), either because insulin production is inadequate, or because the body's cells do not respond properly to insulin, or both. 

These are some of the most common myths around diabetes:

• Diabetes is not that serious of a disease: It is a serious disease and can´t be taken as something not so important
• If you are overweight or obese, you will eventually develop type 2 diabetes
• Eating too much sugar causes diabetes
• People with diabetes are more likely to get colds and other illnesses
• If you have type 2 diabetes and your doctor says you need to start using insulin, it means you are failing to take care of your diabetes properly
• You can get diabetes if you are really scared
• Insulin may blind you or even kill you

My grandmother has diabetes and when I told her about these myths she told me that actually she believed more than the half of these ones were true!! Imagine how many people with diabetes also thinks that these myths are truth! If people believe these myths it can be really dangerous for their health! So let´s make everyone more aware of what´s true and what´s just a simple myth in order to be more healthy persons.