Diabetes Basics
Diabetes is a global issue that is getting wide publicity. As many people are dealing with weight problems and weak health care, it gets worse each day.
The ground of diabetes is metabolic disorder. Metabolism is how your body break downs the food for energy and development.
The digestive juices break down the food in the system for the production of glucose. Glucose is the fuel our bodies run on.
When the body processes the food, the pancreas is supposed to yield the right quantity of glucose from our blood naturally and secrete the right quantity of insulin into our blood.
In people with diabetes, little to no insulin is produced or the body’s cells don’t react correctly to the insulin that is produced. So the glucose accumulates and overflows into the urine and goes out of the body.
This is how the body fails to keep its main source of fuel even though the bloodstream has good amounts of the natural glucose.
There are three categories of diabetes, type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes. People who have type 1 are identified as insulin-dependent.
This is an auto immune disorder where the body’s defense mechanism is going against another part of the body. Those who suffer type 1 diabetes, the insulin producing cell are damaged by their own body.
Therefore the pancreas can produce little to no insulin. These people are in need of daily injections of insulin to live. About 5 to 10 percent of the victims are suffering from type 1.
