Living with Diabetes
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Everyone needs food for energy but this does not always happen especially when a person suffers with diabetes. We must all have glucose to provide us with sufficient energy to carry out everyday tasks. Diabetes stops this energy supply and forces it to remain in the blood creating further problems. It is essential that the glucose is absorbed into the body but this condition creates high levels to accumulate in the blood.
This condition comes in two forms, type one mostly affects young people, called juvenile onset diabetes and is when the body completely stops the production of insulin, this can occur at any age. The hormone insulin, which is produced by your pancreas, will enable your body to use glucose for energy. Type 2 diabetes is not as bad, your body will produce insulin but the problem is in the production.
Foods such as potatoes, rice, bread, pasta and fruit will be changed to sugar and create the energy to do our daily activities. Some serious conditions can result from excess levels of glucose in the blood including blindness, heart and kidney disease and even the removal of limbs. By sticking to a diabetes health care regime, most of these conditions can be helped,then many of the conditions associated with this condition can be slowed down considerably if not stopped 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!
This means that your weight will have to be addressed and kept at a prescribed range. Once you have been diagnosed with diabetes, you will have it for life,in the United States there are reports of it affecting over two and a half percent of the population. The frightening thing is that it is estimated that at least the same number of people has this condition but just don’t know it yet,each year there are over six hundred thousand new cases. 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.