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Dr Oz’s Perspective on Diabetes
Dr Oz's perspective on diabetes:
- It's preventable, treatable and quite often reversible
- Risk factors include: belly fat, sedentary lifestyle, family history, and smoking
- He likens the impact of excess sugar on blood vessels like "shards of glass."
- Complications from diabetes include risk for silent heart attacks, compromised circulation, poorly healing wounds, blindness
- In the US, 86,000 diabetes-related amputations occur yearly
- Symptoms of diabetes can include: sudden persistent thirst, frequent urination, weight loss, non-healing wounds, and tingling toes.
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