According to MedlinePlus (2016), diabetes is a disease associated with high blood sugar levels. The glucose comes from the food a person eats. While glucose is important because it can give us energy when insulin helps the latter in getting into our cells (MedlinePlus, 2016), high sugar level is detrimental to a person's health. There are two type of diabetes: (i) type 1 diabetes where in the body can no longer produce insulin; and (ii) type 2 diabetes, the most common type, which hinders the body from making use of insulin accordingly (MedlinePlus, 2016).Diabetes management programs are made in order to improve a person’s lifestyle and decrease higher sugar levels. Included in these programs are eating healthy foods, engaging into …show more content…
The National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diseases (2014) asserts that a person must learn now to live with diabetes and one must engage into a routine care to maintain a healthy life. According to Kronish and Mann (2010), it is important to have understanding health related behavior associated with diabetes because it is primarily designed to improve diabetes conditions. Individual differences can affect diabetes management because each person has their own lifestyle. However, if a person wants to control the factors which are responsible for the increase of sugar level, he must be able to stick with diabetes management which will eventually benefit him in the process. It is also advantageous for the next generation of behavioral scientists and practitioners because they have the opportunity to make use of the theoretical frameworks developed over the last 50 years regarding diabetes …show more content…
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