Hey, it's Wendy and it's Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast, your online resource for delicious and nutritious living.

For those of you who missed last month's episode, we did our part one on diabetes management.

We spoke about what diabetes is, risk factors, signs and symptoms.

We also went into what test you can do to confirm your diagnosis and other things.

And so this month we're going to be getting into complications related to diabetes, how to cope, if you are diagnosed with diabetes, medication use, and also lifestyle changes.

There are many health complications that can occur with uncontrolled diabetes when your sugars are just off the charts.

So Margarit, can you talk about some of the complications that happen?

When we look at complications, unfortunately, when we think about the stigma attached with diabetes, we're remembering the amputations.

You hear stories of, oh, she had diabetes or she had diabetes and she lost her leg or he lost a limb and so forth.

And unfortunately, when we see situations like that, that's due to uncontrolled diabetes.

So having diabetes does not mean that you will automatically develop complications.

It all depends upon the level of how well controlled the blood glucose levels are.

So uncontrolled diabetes will lead to kidney disease.

Yes, if you keep eating the fried chicken and the doughnuts and the doughnuts and having your bacon egg and cheese on a roll, white bread and giving out the mashed potatoes.

Yes, with diabetes, you will definitely have a higher risk of developing diabetes or having to have that lemonade or the sweet and nice sea

or the 32 ounce gulpie.

You will definitely have a higher risk of probability of developing complications such as kidney disease,

eye disease, unfortunately, or two of the highest among uncontrolled diabetes.

The risk of amputations definitely goes up when we look upon our populations glaucoma increases when we look at eye disease,

retinal macular degeneration definitely increases amongst folks who have diabetes, who have uncontrolled diabetes.

Or even how long you have the diabetes, unfortunately, can determine how high or how low your risk factors are for developing.

Kidney disease, eye disease, risk of complications, as well as a high risk of heart disease, unfortunately.

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