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Type 2 Diabetes affects how your body uses and stores glucose.
Glucose comes from digestion of sugars and starches in the foods
we eat. Our body produces a hormone called insulin that it uses to
remove glucose from our blood. In Type 2 diabetes our body may
not be making enough insulin or our body is not properly responding
to the insulin it is making. Glucose levels in our blood rise and can
cause both short term and long-term effects on our body.
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Keeping active can lower your blood sugar, lower your blood pressure, help you lose weight, help you feel better reduce
the amount of medication you need, relieve tension or stress, improve your heart and lung function and improve your
muscle tone! Look at all those benefits!