What is Diabetes?
Have you been diagnosed with diabetes or are you in fear that you may also be diagnosed with diabetes, perhaps because it is an increasingly popular illness? Do you want to know what causes diabetes to ensure you don't receive it? Well, read on.
In this article, we will be discussing Diabetic symptoms, what actually causes diabetes, and finally how to cure them.
Now the main cause of diabetes is currently obesity and with 30% of the USA clinically obese it is no wonder that 24 million people suffer from diabetes in the USA alone.
As you can see diabetes is a growing illness and with more and more people being diagnosed with diabetes it is important that you know what the main causes of diabetes are.
One of the important causes of diabetes is diabetes being inherited through the bloodlines.
A major cause of diabetes is brought down through generations, however, it does not mean that if your father or grandfather has diabetes that you will also be diagnosed with diabetes merely that you are at a higher risk.
Therefore you should watch out more for the symptoms of diabetes.
Diabetes is a very common word, but a lot of us fail to distinguish between the two common types even if we keep on asking about it.
Type 1 Diabetes
This is the type of diabetes wherein the body is not able to produce the necessary insulin to transport the sugar from the blood going to the cells.
This is also referred to as Juvenile Diabetes. It is usual that this type came from a virus or immunity disorder where the body can no longer recognize an organ as part of its own and starts to attack it.
The body attacks the pancreas making it unable to produce the necessary insulin.
This is usually diagnosed in people in their middle 30's to '40s but a surprising number of kids and toddlers develop this at a very early age.
The symptoms you can expect for this type of diabetes often develop over shorter periods, though beta cell destruction can begin in the earlier years.
These symptoms include constant thirst, urination, and hunger beyond normal levels, extreme and constant fatigue, even blurry vision. If not treated, this can in turn develop into a fatal diabetic coma, most commonly referred to by doctors as diabetic ketoacidosis.
What is the treatment?
Insulin injections from an outside source are often the treatment (though not necessarily a long-term cure) since the pancreas cannot produce enough to move sugar from the bloodstream.
Type 2 Diabetes
This is the type where the insulin produced in the body is not enough to move the sugar out of the bloodstream.
An only a little amount of sugar is transported which results in high blood sugar levels.
In the last few years, this has been considered the adult type of diabetes, but alarmingly a good number of children are experiencing this as well.
Symptoms of which gradually develop over time since, at the onset, it is not as abrupt as with Type 1.
These symptoms also include the same symptoms as Type 1: increased urination and thirst, recurrent infections, blurry visions, and very slow healing of sores, cuts, wounds, and bruises.
Though it is important to note that there are cases too where symptoms do not show up.
Things You Can Do To Reduce The Effects of Diabetes (Type 2) and/or Prevent Its Onset:
1. Switch to a low-carb diet. Most people gain weight because they simply consume too many simple carbs found in bread, pasta, rice, and sugar.
By temporarily going to a low-carb diet, you force the body to burn off its carbohydrate supplies quickly and then have to go to its fat reserves in order to get the energy to use.
A low-carb diet consists of meats, cheeses, and complex carb vegetables like lettuce, spinach, and celery.
2. Do exercise daily. Most people lead sedentary lives (meaning that they sit around a lot).
Just going for a 15-minute walk each day will cause the body to burn more calories and cause less of the foods that you eat to be converted into fat.
3. Get more sleep. Studies show that there is an inverse relationship between sleep and the amount of bodyweight an individual has.
The less sleep a person gets on a regular basis, the more likely that individual is to be overweight. So be sure to get adequate amounts of sleep each night.
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