Why diabetes as our cause?

• 1 in 10 Canadians will be exposed to diabetes during their life time.
  
• Diabetes is a contributing factor in the death of approximately 41,500 Canadians each year.
  
• Insulin can help people with type 1 diabetes to maintain and balance their blood sugars, but it does not cure diabetes nor does it prevent its devastating co-morbidity such as kidney failure, blindness, nerve damage, amputations, heart attack and stroke.
   
• To educate and raise awareness about Type 1 diabetes.

The above are all great reasons...but we choose to fight diabetes because of how it affects our daily lives each and every day.