Your Guide to Understanding Diabetes Disorder
Everyone uses food for energy and growth but a metabolic disorder called diabetes stops this from happening. Glucose from the food we eat is the body's primary source of energy. Diabetes causes problems with the distribution of glucose in the bloodstream. If this glucose remains in the blood and is not absorbed in to the body as it needs to, abnormally high levels of blood glucose or high blood sugar levels as it is also known as, occur.
Juvenile onset diabetes is called type one and usually, but not always, affects children and young adults and is where the body's production of insulin has ceased,this results in the diabetic requiring an insulin injection every day to stay healthy and alive. Insulin helps glucose enter the body's cells, where it can be used for energy or stored for future use. Type two affects adults and is sometimes called late onset diabetes,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. Excess glucose in the bloodstream has many dangers for the body and can cause heart disease, kidney problems and blindness, not to mention amputations as well.
However, it is possible to manage diabetes by maintaining a strict health regime,these conditions will vary form person to person but most should see improvements with some complaints halted altogether. It is possible to live a relatively normal life provided you stick to the plan laid out by your doctor,but this means sticking to your medication, watching your blood sugar, cholesterol and to stop smoking!
Your weight and blood pressure also need to be checked regularly and kept within the acceptable limits set by your doctor. 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,there are more than 600,000 new cases every year so the situation is worsening. It is believed that as many as 320,000 diabetics die each year in America while only 34,000 of those actually die directly from the condition itself.