Type 1 diabetes, which is occasionally still referred to as 'Juvenile Diabetes' is the diabetes that some individuals are born with or acquire very early on in life due to organ failure. The pancreas, to be precise, fails to yield enough (or any) insulin to regulate the amount of sugar (glucose) in the blood, which then becomes either (normally) saturated with it or devoid of it...
If you have been diagnosed with diabetes or that you are in a pre-diabetic state, it is very disconcerting. It is all is new to you and you have heard horror stories about diabetes. Well, those horror stories are true for those who cannot afford treatment or who do not take the illness seriously. Organ failure, blindness and amputations are the natural result of diabetes unless it is treated...
Diabetes is a scary disease for most people, especially people who are not able to afford adequate medication, regular visits to the medical doctor and self-testing apparatus. For these people, diabetes means what it has always meant throughout history: numb extremities, poor eyesight or blindness, amputations and an early death...
Despite the fact that pregnancy is a completely natural and everyday process for women, there is no doubt that it brings with it both mental and physical stresses and strains on the person concerned. Expectant mothers worry about whether the baby is healthy and whether they are doing all they can to give their baby every chance to do well...
The foremost difficulty for diabetics is not the deficiency of insulin, it is the result of the lack of insulin and that result is that the blood becomes ultra-saturated with sugar (or glucose). Everyone's blood has sugar in it, the blood carries this energy to the limbs and organs to keep them working, but there is a fine balance between sufficient and too much...
Health experts are almost unanimously convinced that many populations around the world, not only in the West, are at risk from obesity and diabetes. Not just are more and more middle-aged and elderly people getting diabetes, but younger people are too. The age groups getting diabetes are becoming younger, but there does not seem to be any national advice from governments or nation's environmental health departments...
We are all advised to consume foods with more fibre, because dietary fibre is a vital ingredient for keeping our bodies healthy. It is particularly useful for the colon. Since attention to detail in diet is even more vital to diabetics, it stands to reason that fibre is even more vital to diabetics too...
The rate of diabetes is on the rise and has been for years not just in the Developed World but in numerous countries is other regions of the world too. This has been linked to the growing rate of obesity which in turn has been linked to various causes. There are a number of suggestions why the number of obese people is increasing, the most common of which are raised prosperity, sedentary jobs, inactive lifestyle (far too much TV); poor diet (far too much junk food) and food additives...
Diabetes is a chronic disease which can have many side effects. The illness (usually) comes about as a result of the pancreas not producing enough insulin, which you need to deal with the glucose level in your blood. Having diabetes, or too much glucose in your blood can have dire results such as cataracts (treatable blindness), bad teeth and an increased risk of common illnesses...
There is a quite popular misconception that diabetics will suffer from kidney infection. This used to be true decades ago before there was any real awareness of the whys and wherefores of diabetes. These days, the threat of kidney disease is still there, but it is absolutely not unavoidable. Those who take care of their blood sugar level by eating the correct foods and exercising, run very little danger of kidney disease at all...
