Diabetes is a disease that occurs when your blood glucose, (blood sugar) is too high. Blood glucose is your main source of energy and comes from the food you eat. Insulin, a hormone made by the pancreas, helps to convert the glucose to energy. It is estimated that 415 million people worldwide live with this disease and 46% of them remain undiagnosed. People with prediabetes have higher-than-normal blood sugar levels, but doctors do not consider them to have diabetes yet.

The risk factors of diabetes include: being overweight, a family history of the disease, having a high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol level lower than 40 mg/dL or 50 mg/dL, a history of high blood pressure, having gestational diabetes or giving birth to a child with a birth weight of more than 9 pounds, a history of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), being more than 45 years of age, as well as having a sedentary lifestyle.

10 Early Signs Of Diabetes That You Must Watch Out For

-1. Frequent urination: You always experience a need to urinate more frequently, particularly at night. When blood sugar levels are high, the kidneys try to remove the excess sugar by filtering it out of the blood. This can lead to a person needing to urinate more frequently, particularly at night

-2.Increased thirst: The frequent urination that is necessary to remove excess sugar from the blood can result in the body losing additional water. Over time, this can cause dehydration and lead to a person feeling more thirsty than usual.

-3. Always feeling hungry: People with diabetes often do not get enough energy from the food they eat. As a result, they often feel constantly hungry, regardless of how recently they have eaten.

-4. Feeling very tired: Type 2 diabetes can impact on a person’s energy levels and cause them to feel very tired or fatigued. This tiredness occurs as a result of insufficient sugar moving from the bloodstream into the body’s cells.

-5. Vision Getting Blurry: An excess of sugar in the blood can damage the tiny blood vessels in the eyes, which can cause blurry vision.

-6.Slow healing of wounds: High levels of sugar in the blood can damage the body’s nerves and blood vessels, and such wounds may take weeks or months to heal.

-7.Numbness, or pain in the hands or feet: This condition is known as neuropathy, and it can worsen over time and lead to more serious complications if the diabetes is not treated.

-8. Patches of dark skin: Patches of dark skin forming on the creases of the neck, armpit also signifies a higher risk of diabetes.

–9. Itching on your body:  Excess sugar in the blood and urine provides food for yeast, which can lead to an infection that itches.

-10. Dry Skin: Extremely dry skin is one of the common symptoms associated with type 2 diabetes.

Simple steps to lowering your risk of Diabetes

1. Control your weight
   Excess weight is the single most important cause of type 2 diabetes. Being overweight increases the chances of developing type 2 diabetes seven-fold. Being obese makes you 20 to 40 times more likely to develop diabetes than someone with a healthy weight.
2. Be Active
   Inactivity promotes type 2 diabetes. Working your muscles more often and making them work harder improves their ability to use insulin and absorb glucose. This puts less stress on your insulin-making cells.
3. Eat Balance Diet
   These Four dietary changes can have a big impact on the risk of type 2 diabetes.

1. Choose whole grains and whole grain products over refined grains and other highly processed carbohydrates.
2. Skip the sugary drinks, and choose water, coffee, or tea instead.
3. Choose healthy fats.
4. Limit red meat and avoid processed meat; choose nuts, beans, whole grains, poultry, or fish instead.
5. Avoid Smoking and consume Light to moderate alcohol
6. TAKE Natural Supplement