Everyone needs food for energy but this does not always happen especially when a person suffers with symptoms of diabetes. We must all have glucose to provide us with sufficient energy to carry out everyday tasks. Glucose is the main source of fuel for the body but diabetes causes glucose to back up in the bloodstream. The result of this is that glucose levels in the blood continue to increase leading to health problems.
There are two major types of diabetes - Tyope 1 ans Type 2 diabetes. Mainly affecting children and young adults, type 1 or juvenile onset diabetes occurs when insulin production stops completely; this results in the diabetic requiring an insulin injection every day to stay healthy and alive. Insulin is used by the body to regulate the amount of glucose the blood contains. The other type of diabetes (type 2 or late onset) is not quite so severe; it results when the body either cannot produce enough insulin or does not use the insulin it makes properly.
Many of the foods we eat such as bread, potatoes, rice, pasta and fruit are converted into sugar and give us the energy we need to maintain life. Having high levels of glucose in your blood that is not entering the cells will over long periods, cause a number of serious conditions including blindness, amputations, heart and kidney conditions. Good diabetes care and management can prevent or delay the onset of these complications; some of the possible conditions will be halted completely whilst others will be delayed. Managing this condition means changing your lifestyle to suit your condition any medication that has been prescribed; but this means sticking to your medication, watching your blood sugar, cholesterol and to stop smoking!
In addition, weight and blood pressure will need to be routinely monitored and kept stable. Diabetes is a life long condition if you are unlucky enough to contract it; in the United States there are reports of it affecting over two and a half percent of the population. However, the disease remains undiagnosed in about the same number; over 600,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. The number of Americans who have diabetes and die each year is approximately 320,000 but only 34,000 die as a direct result of having the condition.
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