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Defeat Diabetes Foundation

Defeat Diabetes
Foundation
150 153rd Ave,
Suite 300
Madeira Beach, FL 33708

So You've Got Diabetes

So now what? Well you have several options each with a predictable outcome. First you can choose do absolutely nothing. Most people feel fine when they get the initial diagnosis and think it doesn’t matter if they get and keep their diabetes under control.

However, that option increases the likelihood is that your diabetes will progressively get more severe. Eventually you will begin to experience serious and unnecessary complications such as blindness, kidney disease or amputations.

Or, and this is the preferred choice, you can take control of your disease and your life and learn to manage your diabetes.

Self-Management is fundamental to the successful control of diabetes. Defeat Diabetes Foundation supports a patient-empowerment model of diabetes care and education, in which the patient becomes the central player on the treatment team. This is widely recognized as the best model to help diabetics successfully manage their diabetes.

Update 2010