Diabetes what is it? what can you do?
December 19, 2009 |17:16 | General Information By : Team X
All of us love food and most of us have gone through a diet regimen, but have you ever been on a lifetime diet plan?!! Unfortunately that’s what 171 million people.
Almost 2.8% of the population (as of 2000) suffer from on a daily basis they have to watch what they eat and keep track of any food stuff that enters their bodies.
These people suffer form a condition known as diabetes mellitus in which their bodies lack the ability to either produce enough or does not properly respond to insulin which is a hormone produced in the pancreas.
Insulin enables cells to absorb glucose in order to turn it into energy and as the end result of most of the food entering our bodies is glucose; this causes glucose to accumulate in the blood, leading to various potential complications.
Diabetes is a serious condition and should not be regarded as a minor disease as the accumulation of glucose in blood may lead to several damages to other organs. According to recent number diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, blindness, and amputation in adults. If untreated, diabetes does lead to reduced life expectancy.
Actually, there are many kinds of diabetes but the most known are these two types:
Type 1: (juvenile diabetes or Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM)) this type results from the body’s failure to produce insulin.
Type 2: (maturity onset diabetes or non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM)) which results from insulin resistance, a condition in which cells fail to use insulin properly, sometimes combined with absolute insulin deficiency. Most people who are diagnosed with diabetes have type 2 diabetes. This does not usually occur until after the age of 40 although 2 to 5% of those people affected do get diabetes type 2 before they are 25 years old.
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