Diabetes is one of the toughest diseases to cure, but if a patient can adopt the right approaches to controlling blood sugar levels, the illness can not be serious enough to affect normal life and can even be cured, a Taiwanese medical expert suggests.
Dr. Yu Neng-chun, who specializes in endocrinology and metabolism and is also the former chairman of the Board of Directors of the Diabetes Health Education Association in Taiwan, said on the Everyday Health channel that diabetes is classified into two types.
Type 1 diabetes is caused by the autoimmune system mistakenly attacking the insulin-making cells, leaving the pancreas completely or almost unable to produce insulin….