It is a medical fact that at least one third of people who suffer from diabetes are not even aware that they have the disease. Very often, a visit to the eye doctor for unexplained blurry vision or sudden eye problems, serves as the mechanism through which diabetes is diagnosed. Diabetes, left undiagnosed, can at worst, be life-threatening, but even if your diabetes never reaches that level of severity, it certainly can put anyone at risk for blindness.Being proactive about your vision care, especially if you have, or are at high risk of getting diabetes, can and should go well beyond an annual visit to your optometrist. Diabetes, like many other physical challenges, in at least 33% of cases, is a consequence of obesity. A study performed by the Harvard School of Public Health concluded that being overweight and obese was the single most important factor in determining who would develop Type 2 Diabetes.
As a result of this, health professionals advocate, and rightly so, a strict program of diet and exercise to both prevent the onset of obesity driven diabetes, and to treat it quickly and effectively if in fact it has already manifested itself. What seems to get lost time and again, even though they are directly impacted in a negative fashion from diabetes or risk thereof, is the eyes. Perhaps it is just the result of misinformation or lack of information, but what is constantly overlooked is the fact that just as we can work with the rest of our body in a natural preventative or restorative fashion, we can do the exact same thing with our eyes, and we can do it naturally.
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