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What can you do if you have diabetes?
• Learn to control your diabetes. You need to take personal responsibility for managing your disease. Diabetes is a lifestyle disease. You can prevent severe complications of diabetes just by controlling your blood sugar.
• Get your blood-sugar levels down to normal. Some people may have to take insulin. Others will have to lose weight. In some cases you may have to do both.
• Pay attention to your diet and exercise.
The first step is to determine if you have diabetes. Millions of people have undiagnosed diabetes. Early detection and taking corrective actions is important in minimizing diabetes complications.
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