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Could you possibly put diabetes under control without medicines ?

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Type 2: On occasion type 2 diabetes may be improved via diet, exercise and weight loss but it is unlikely that type 1 will be controlled or managed this way and could lead to excessively high sugar levels with eventual long term complications. Tight control is currently the best way we have of minimizing these.

Dr Fowler and another doctor agreed

Answered 8/6/2013

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