Typically, if your blood sugar is out of control, you will feel thirsty constantly. You may be able to down a pitcher of water or tea without even thinking about it, for instance, when normally you'd only drink a glass or two. When the sugar concentration is high in your blood, your kidneys can't pull the sugar out anymore. Your body tries to dilute that sugar by pulling in more water from your tissues, leaving you feeling dehydrated. This makes you feel the urge to drink more water, resulting in you urinating more often. If you're trying to lose weight, dropping pounds isn't a bad thing. However, if you haven't changed your eating or exercising habits recently, suddenly losing weight can be an indicator of diabetes. With type 2 diabetes, your insulin has trouble getting sugar from your blood for energy. Therefore, it starts drawing from your fat and muscle reserves for energy, causing you to lose weight. Keep in mind that not all early diabetics will lose weight. You may gain weight or see no change in your weight, even though you have diabetes. Uncontrolled diabetes can also cause extreme hunger. You may find yourself wanting to snack all the time and in large quantities. At the same time, you may still be losing weight. Typically, this is because your body is having trouble drawing energy from the glucose in your blood, so it's making you want to eat more. With diabetes, you'll have more trouble healing cuts than you normally do. For instance, you may notice that a cut just doesn't seem to be healing over, even after a week or two. You might also get gum or skin infections more often, as well as genital itching caused by fungus or sugar in your urine. Unstable glucose levels can affect your blood circulation, which is why healing takes longer. Uncontrolled blood sugar levels can make you feel tired all the time. This isn't just feeling tired after a long day of work; rather, it's a tiredness that you can't seem to shake no matter how much rest you get. Irritability is a related symptom, as not feeling yourself can make you irritable. Because unstable blood sugar can reduce your circulation, your blood can't get energy and oxygen to your cells. High blood sugar levels may cause changes in your eyes, leading to blurred vision. This symptom may go away if you get your blood sugar under control, but you definitely need to see a doctor. If you experience blurred vision, visit your doctor immediately for a medical evaluation.
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One-sentence summary -- Notice if you need to drink water and urinate more often. Pay attention to sudden weight loss. Check to see if you're extra hungry. Look for slow healing times and a higher number of infections. Watch for fatigue and irritability. See a doctor if you have blurred vision.

All right, now that you've got the meat of it together, how do you put it onto paper? Well, for starters, cut it to length. It should be a page long at most, if that. No one's going to waste time on 5 paragraphs unless you're covering WWIII. Here's what you need (some of which we've already covered): FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE should go at the top of the page, on the left margin. If the release is embargoed, put "EMBARGOED UNTIL..." with the date you want the story released. A release with no release date is presumed to be for immediate release. The headline, usually in bold, should be centered below that. If you'd like, put a subhead in italics (briefly elaborating the headline). First paragraph: most important information. May be quite news-like in that, it starts with a date or where the news is coming from. Second (and probable third) paragraph: secondary information. Should include quotes and facts. Boilerplate information: more on your company. Who are you, really? What achievements do you have? What's your mission? Contact information: more on the writer (probably you!). If you grab someone's interest, they'll want to be able to find out more! Multimedia: in today's day and age, there's always some Twitter handle to be had. That means it's time to include information about your company. When a journalist picks up your press release for a story, he or she would logically have to mention the company in the news article. Journalists can then get the company information from this section. The title for this section should be "About [XYZ_COMPANY]." After the title, use a paragraph or two to describe your company with 5 or 6 lines each. The text must describe your company, its core business and the business policy. Many businesses already have professionally written brochures, presentations, business plans, etc. That introductory text can be put here. At the end of this section, point to your website. The link should be the exact and complete URL without any embedding so that, even if this page is printed, the link will be printed as it is. For example: http://www.example.com, not Click here to visit the website. Companies which maintain a separate media page on their websites must point to that URL here. A media page typically has contact information and press kits. If your press release is really newsworthy, journalists would surely like more information or would like to interview key people associated with it. If you are comfortable with the idea of letting your key people be contacted directly by media, you can provide their contact details on the press release page itself. For example, in the case of an innovation, you can provide the contact information of your engineering or research team for the media. If not, you must provide the details of your media/PR department in the "Contact" section. If you do not have dedicated team for this function, you must appoint somebody who will act as a link between the media and your people. The contact details must be limited and specific only to the current press release. The contact details must include: The company's official name Media department's official name and contact person Office address Telephone and fax numbers with proper country/city codes and extension numbers Mobile phone number (optional) Times of availability Email addresses Website address It's good practice to keep a log of all of your press releases housed on your own website. This can make providing such a link easier to produce, as well as keeping a record for historical purposes. Center these directly underneath the last line of the release. This is a journalistic standard. It may look like you're over-tweeting, but you're not. This is how it's done.
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Get the basic structure down. Write a boilerplate underneath the body of your release. Add your contact information. If possible, include a link to an online copy of the same release. Signal the end of the press release with three # (hash) symbols.