Kendra and Johnson joined Team Diabetes to help raise awareness of Diabetes and it's possible long term complications.

• 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.
  
• A person with diabetes incurs medical costs that are two to three times higher than that of a person without diabetes.
  
• 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.

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

Please click the “Our Stories” page to read how.