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True or False: Eating too much sugar causes Type 1 diabetes.
False: Type 1 diabetes happens when the pancreas cannot make insulin normally.
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What is a test kit used for?
It is a way to measure blood sugar.
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what is the anniversary of someones diagnoses called?

Diaversary 

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What is one of the first things recommended for someone diagnosed with Diabetes?

Starting a healthy nutrition plan

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What is the hormone associated with Diabetes?
Insulin, which works with the sugar taken into the body to use for energy.
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True or False: Kids with Diabetes cannot eat candy.
False. Kids can eat some sweets in small amounts with a balanced diet.
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Where are the injection sites for your insulin shots located on the body?
The abdomen, thighs, back of the arms, and buttocks.
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Which celebrity who's name rhymes with kick, is also type one diabetic? (hint we disused him in the first meeting.

Nick Jonas!!! <3 love of my life

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What can play a key role in managing Diabetes?
Exercise and an active lifestyle.
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What is a symptom of Type 1 Diabetes? Gaining weight or losing weight?
Losing weight. The body starts to use muscle and fat for energy as it cannot use sugar.
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True or False: You can't catch Diabetes from someone else.
True. Diabetes cannot be passed from person to person like a cold.
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True or False: You should always use the same injection site.
False. Using the same insulin injection site over and over is not a good idea. Eventually, insulin injected at that over-used site won’t be absorbed as quickly. You should rotate injection sites.
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True or False: Everything Affects blood sugar, including weather, stress, and emotions.

TRUE, LITERALLY EVERYTHING.

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When you are sick, it is important to...
Drink clear liquids, check glucose level more often, and take medicine regularly
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Because Diabetes makes the body not be able to use sugar for energy, most people with diabetes tend to feel...
Tired and very sleepy from lack of energy
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True or False: Insulin cures Diabetes.
False. Insulin helps glucose/sugar out of the blood and into the body to be used for energy but it doesn't cure Diabetes.
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Which injection site absorbs insulin the most quickly?
The abdomen absorbs and can process the insulin more quickly.
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There is a Supreme Court justice who is type one diabetic?

YES! https://ballotpedia.org/Sonia_Sotomayor

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Who should be aware of your diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes?
Any teachers, coaches, nurses, or people in charge so they can get you help when you need it.
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Slow healing cuts are caused by what? High or Low blood sugar?

High blood sugar levels can affect blood flow and cause nerve damage, which makes healing difficult.

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True or False: There is no cure for diabetes
True. There is no cure for diabetes. Using insulin shots can make life with diabetes easier. But Type 1 diabetes comes from the destruction of insulin cells which cannot be replaced.
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What is an A1c

An A1c test, measures average glucose level over the past 2-3 months. 

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Which of these three are diabetics most likely to suffer from, insulin retraction disorder, burn out, loss of feet.

What is burn out :( 

type one diabetes is a physically and mentally exhausting disease that affects every part of a persons life, it often leads to depression and burn out, where people with the condition become tired and stressed out.

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True or False: Type one diabetics have to be careful drinking water, which can lower blood sugar.

False, that's just something I made up.

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Extreme thirst is caused by what symptom of Diabetes?

Diabetes makes the kidneys work more to expel sugars from the body. This is done by a lot of peeing/urination. This can lead to dehydration or extreme thirst.