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    Diabetes is a disorder where your body can not eliminate sugar and as a result, your blood sugar levels remain high. The reasons your blood sugar levels remain high is because your pancreas is unable to produce sufficient insulin, or your body cells are resistant to the insulin your pancreas produces. Symptoms of diabetes are increased thirst (staying unusually thirst), increased hunger (not completely satisfied always remaining hunger) and a frequent need to urinate. There are three major…

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    Paper On Type 2 Diabetes

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    United States today. It is a condition characterized by the body 's inability to use or produce insulin efficiently, which then causes the individual to have high blood glucose levels. For less serious cases, people diagnosed have to increase physical activity and monitor their diet, which is enough to control their blood glucose levels. However, some more serious cases have to take tablets or insulin regularly. If left untreated, the person with have immensely high blood glucose levels and are…

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    which produce insulin and release into the bloodstream. The symptoms of Diabetes are weight loss, dry skin, unclear vision, less capacity to fight against an infection, constant urination and extreme thirst and hunger, these symptoms are established over months or years, but mostly you don’t recognize them. People who are overweight and with Diabetes Type 2 produce more insulin than non-diabetic people, because of the higher body fat to muscle. That’s why the body cannot use the insulin, so…

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    effect of diabetes many of the people in the third world country are considered that diabetes is a normal disease and they are not concern enough regarding their health. After a certain time, many of the patient whose body were already made insulin resistance face various problems like kidney disease, heart attacks, stroke and other problems. As a result a great number of patient who are affected by diabetes disease are admitted in hospital and take medicine.When the patient are felt good then…

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    What happens when you eat sugar? Eating carbs causes the pancreas to release the hormone insulin to reduce the blood sugar spike. Insulin regulates the level of sugar in the blood - the more sugar in the bloodstream, the more insulin is released. Insulin then goes on to ‘store’ glucose in the liver and muscles in the form of glycogen. If too much insulin is released, your blood sugar will to drop too low causing low-blood sugar. This causes you to crave sugar and the vicious cycle continues.…

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    • If you have type 1 diabetes, talk with your health care provider about managing blood glucose levels with insulin before, during, and after exercise. • Understand that exercise affects blood glucose levels differently depending on how long you exercise and other factors such as whether you are sick. Be ready to treat high blood glucose (hyperglycemia) and…

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    Diabetes. diabetes alone is a major issue within our community, but what is Type 2 diabetes, type 2 is a condition in which your blood levels are too high because they don’t produce enough insulin for the cells to be able to open up for glucose or it can’t respond to insulin causing them to be insulin resistance. it is said by diabetes new zealand inc. that 30 minutes of daily physical exercise…

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    As people with type 2 diabetes body’s develop resistance to insulin. Therefore, it is critical that diabetics know how to control their blood glucose levels with diet and exercise. One of the primary uses for the glycaemic index is to help diabetic individuals control their blood sugar. It is imperative that…

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    most life-threatening diseases. Type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent diabetes or juvenile or Diabetes mellitus type 1) is described as the variety of diabetes in which insulin production is destructed or specifically, human body fails to produce much needed insulin in the body (Higgins et al. 560). In contrast, Type 2 diabetes (adult-onset diabetes or noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM)) is caused by the abnormal condition (insulin resistance), wherein cells become resistant to…

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    blood glucose (sugar) levels to rise higher than normal. Type 2 diabetes was originally known as “adult-onset” or “non-insulin dependent” diabetes, though it has changed because type 2 diabetes may be diagnosed before adulthood and sometimes needs treatment with insulin. Type 2 diabetes is quite different than type 1 diabetes. In type 2 diabetes, the pancreas secretes too much insulin ultimately trying to keep up with the body’s needs. Overtime, the pancreas cannot keep up with the body’s…

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