National Diabetes Month helps bring focus to healthy, educated agenda

By CRAIG HOWARD

Contributing Writer/Spokane Valey News Herald

November may be National Diabetes Month, but for Grant Wasson, the disease is a year-round concern.

Before he was diagnosed in 1995, Wasson didn't think much about diabetes, despite a family history of the condition. He was 51 when doctors told him that his blood sugar level was high enough to place him as a Type 2 diabetic.

“I was heavy then,” said Wasson, now 63. “I was eating doughnuts and candy and it seemed like I was tired all the time.”

About 90 percent of people who have diabetes are classified as Type 2, a condition in whic...

 

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