Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Diabetes

Only being human, I enjoy ice cream and chocolate, as do most Americans. I don't know anyone who doesn't. Imagine not being able to eat oreo's, or Hershey bars or sometimes even oranges. That's what it is like for diabetics. It starts off with a few symptoms, then, diabetics learn that they are diseased. Finding out you are diagnosed with diabetes my be a hard thing to adjust to. However, it may be an easy thing to realize you have diabetes. As diabetes forms people experience symptoms such as extreme thirst; heavy hunger; fatigue; consistant need to pee; unintended weight loss; moderate healing soars; dry, itchy skin; numbness/tingling joints; and blurred vision. All this is a misery to go through i am sure. Being diabetic means you have high blood sugar and your body can not produce insulin. Insulin, being organs controlling blood sugar is a necessity to your body. Glucose would not be able to get into cells and therefore stays in blood. That is no good considering glucose is your highest source of energy in addition to it damaging nerves and blood vessels if it stays in the blood. This can also cause hearty disease; stroke; kidney disease; blindness; or lower limb amputation. 18.2 million Americans have been diagnosed with diabetes. Eight million of those people are over 60 years of age. Type one of diabetes holds only a small percentage of diabetics. Usually they are under the age of 30. This type means you can not produce insulin. 90% of diabetics are diseased with type two of diabetes. This type is most common in adults over 40 who can not always produce enough insulin and are overweight and inactive. Being overweight and inactive is the typical cause for diabetes. In fact, studies show discreet weight loss and exercise can lower the chances of pre-diabetics being announced diabetic. For a fact, the percentage of diabetic adults dropped 71% due to exercise. Better hurry up and get active before you can't eat chocolate anymore. source: http://health/090917-diabetes-sign.html

2 comments:

  1. Nice job you made diabetes very understandable and you explained it very well.

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  2. My cousin is a diabetic and I never fully understood exactly what that meant. This article is extrememely well-written and gave me more knowledge as to what my cousin goes through. I really liked how your ending tied to the beginning of your article. Your blog is very interesting and factual. Good job!

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