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World Health Day Beating Diabetes What can you do to be part of the change? Since 1950, the UN has marked April 7 of every year to be World Health Day. It’s a day to commemorate and celebrate the founding of the WHO and bring to attention major health related issues on a global scale. This year’s concept is to combat diabetes, a life-long disease that affects the way your body handles glucose in your blood with alarming repercussions. There are two main forms of diabetes: type one and type two, both somewhat genetically linked but type two comprises 90 percent of people with diabetes worldwide.
Many believed that type one is mostly common in children and adolescents but with all the lifestyle changes the world is going through, more and more children and young adults are being diagnosed with type two than ever before. This is a major concern for health care providers and according to the IDF in the MENA region, it’s been recorded that there were 3.4 million cases of diabetes in Saudi Arabia as of 2015.
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