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  • Diabetes Q & A

    Kortney Killgore-smith, Arnp Columbia County Health System|Nov 20, 2014

    [Editor's Note: November is National Diabetes Awareness Month, and the Columbia County Health System is reaching out to Touchet Valley residents to help them understand the disease, and measures available for prevention and treatment.] What is diabetes? As many people know, diabetes is a group of disorders that characteristically involves the body either not making enough insulin or not using its own insulin efficiently. As we take in food for energy use in the body, most of it is turned into glucose, or sugar for our later use. Our pancreas...