Diabetes Causes And Self-Help Tips (Part I)

Diabetes Causes 

When you last heard that someone was a diabetics, how did you feel? What was your reaction? You can't recall?

I bet you had no impression at all or you might have asked "So? what has Diabetes got to do with me?" but ... well, your response then was perfectly normal, mainly because you did not have the diabetes problem then but now ... never mind, that was in the past ... let us find out how diabetes affect our lives and what caused diabetes.

How Serious Or Terrifying Is Diabetes?
Diabetes are likely to damage your
a) retina, resulting in blindness
b) kidneys, resulting in kidneys failure
c) nerves, resulting in paralysise of the stomach, chronic diarrhea, inability to control heart rate and blood pressure during postural changes.
d) nerves, affecting the healing ability of wounds ... with the inability of wounds to heal may result in amputation of limbs.

People with diabetes are also exposed to risks of heart attack or stroke.

What Are The Causes Of Diabetes?
There are many causes of diabetes. Some of the causes of diabetes arose due to your own doing, your chosen style of living while others are beyond their control.

Most of you understand that diabetics have problem regulating the sugar (or glucose) in the blood.
Glucose is the substance that provides you with the engergy to get things done, including play, work exercises and many other activities.
Glucose comes from the food you consume.

How Your Body System Works
When you start eating, your body system will start working...
a) firstly, it will secrete enzymes to digest the food you have eaten,
b) then it will turn the food into glucose and
c) lastly, the glucose will be sent to all parts of your body using the special distribution system, the blood vessel.

However, not eveybody's distribution system functions similarly well or function as expected.
Not every one of our body system can produce a substance known as insulin, which is suppose to help move glucose into the blood for distribution to the rest of the body. This is referred as "Type 1 diabetes".

There are others who may be able to generate insulin but the body malfunction and cannot utilize it to distribute glucose. This is referred as "Type 2 diabetes".

Several Types Of Diabetes
The main causes of type 1 diabetes is
a) failure of the pancreas progressively as we aged
b) destruction of the pancreas because of excessive alcohol consumption
c) removal of the pancreas

Do check this out Type 1 Diabetes: A Guide for Children, Adolescents, Young Adults--and Their Caregivers, Third Edition
For type 2 diabetes, it usually affect
a) adults more than 30 years of age but nowadays, even the youngsters are affected
b) people who do not exercise
c) people who do not watch their diet

There is another type of diabetes that may affect pregnant women. This is Gestational diabetes and will normally go away after delivery of the baby. However, these Gestational diabetes may cause type 2 diabetes to the affected women sometimes later in their life.  You may wish to check this out too Type 2 Diabetes: The Adrenal Gland Disease: The Cause of Type 2 Diabetes and a Nutrition Program That Takes Control!

How much changes do you have to make to your life?
Some claimed that the adjustments they have to make in their daily life was minimal while others confessed that life was not the same since they contracted the disease. The latter has confessed that it was very tough adapting to the changes the doctors have recommended.

Frankly, the changes in the Diabetics' style of living may not be drastic. The level of toughness or difficulty in adapting to the changes in one's way of living depend very much on their current style of living. If you have been reasonably health conscious, the extent of changes to make should not be noticeable. However, if you have been enjoying a ... "carefree" style of living, well, the changes will very likely be "WOW ! How can I survive ?! "

... Please look out for Diabetes Causes And Self-Help Tips (Part II).

For your well being, you may visit the following websites for more information on causes of diabetes and self-help tips to prevent deterioration of your condition. http://www.diabeticdietandrecipes.womenbeyondthirties.com/

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