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Healthy Adult Was Independent Diabetic Child
10/22/07
Disease Basics
Forty years ago, Ann Curley's doctor told her parents that diabetes would shorten her life dramatically. However, Curley points out that advances in science and technology, her doctor's excellent mentoring, and her discipline about the disease helped her outlive that prognosis.
Her story about diabetes on CNN.com explains how she managed the disease.One tool she used 40 years ago—exercising to lower blood sugar—is still arguably the most important diabetes treatment.
Advances such as continuous blood sugar montitoring, blood testing strips, and medications have changed this disease dramatically. People can often help themselves avoid diabetes misery.
Curley is a type 1 diabetic, but the lessons she learned as a 7-year-old are applicable to middle-aged people and senior citizens with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes & exercise go hand in hand.