| Are you a diabetic? Do you smoke? Do people | | | | making it more difficult to control your |
| around you smoke? We all know smoking is a | | | | diabetes, which in turn leads to other |
| direct cause of cancer but if you have | | | | problems.6) And it increases your |
| diabetes smoking - including passive smoking | | | | cholesterol levels, which increases the risk |
| - leads to other health problems...Here are 7 | | | | of a heart attack.7) Doubles your chances of |
| reasons why mixing diabetes with smoking is a | | | | getting limited mobility in your joints. It's |
| very bad idea:1) You are more likely to get | | | | no fun trying to bend, climb stairs or lift |
| nerve damage (neuropathy). If this happens | | | | something when you have a painful joint.In |
| to be in your feet it could lead to | | | | fact smoking - and passive smoking - have a |
| infections and, if not taken care of | | | | seriously detrimental effect on the ABC's of |
| properly, even amputation.2) You could | | | | diabetes management:A1C - the measurement of |
| develop kidney disease.3) When you smoke | | | | your blood glucose over a 3-month periodB - |
| your blood pressure increases.4) Diabetics | | | | your blood pressure, which should be below |
| who smoke increase, 3-fold, the risk of dying | | | | 130/80C - your cholesterol levelsAnd, of |
| of heart (cardiovascular) disease.5) By | | | | course, on top of all that there is the risk |
| smoking you increase your blood-sugar levels, | | | | of cancer! |