Sure, having heard that grandpa or grandma suffer from diabetes, you could have thought it was a disease only old folks suffered from. You couldn’t be more wrong. I once came across a thirty year old dude who couldn’t eat some foods anymore because the doctor said they’d kill him. He was suffering from diabetes! There is a lifestyle you have got to live after you have been diagnosed with diabetes. That lifestyle is one of care and caution, something you could have done earlier to keep the disease away. In any case, now you are stuck with it, so you don’t get away; you live with it. If the doctor told you not to eat cakes and sweets and to avoid soda dinks at all costs, just do it. If you doctor told you to check your glucose levels regularly and even suggested that you get a free glucose meter from your health insurance company, just do it. This is for your own good after all.