Gary Valenciano is one of the most prominent Pinoy celebrity who is known to be living with diabetes. With the disease, once diagnosed, will be a lifetime of medication and diet to prevent complications from happening. The International Diabetes Foundation has reported that the Philippines has been named as one the world’s emerging diabetes hotspot having treated 3.2 million cases in 2014 alone.
For non-diabetics, the sugar and carbohydrates in the food are transformed into glucose, which the cells absorb in the bloodstream with the help of a hormone called insulin. Diabetics do not produce or do not have enough insulin in the body and therefore cannot absorb the glucose, which creates a build-up in the blood and often leads to more serious illnesses.
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