Diabetes - What You Can Do
April 16th, 2009 | by Wiiabetes Guest Blogger |Everyone needs food for energy but this does not always happen especially when a person suffers with diabetes. We must have glucose for our energy. Diabetes will stop the supply of energy and makes it stay in the blood creating many issues. 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 but only brief details are given here, The first type is called type one and primarily affects young people, usually called juvenile onset diabetes and is where the body completely stops the production of insulin,this can occur at any age but diabetics must take daily insulin injections in order to survive. The hormone insulin, which is produced by your pancreas, will enable your body to use glucose for energy. The other type of diabetes (type 2 or late onset) is not quite so severe,the body is still producing insulin but there is a problem with its production or use, but fortunately this type can be treated with a special diet.
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!
You will really need to keep your weight at a healthy number. Once you have diabetes, you have it for life, there is an estimated two and a half percent of the population with diabetes. 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.
