Care of your diebetes condition
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People who have the suffer from diabetes will need to know the condition, the body creates a situation where the exchange of energy from the food they eat is flawed. Glucose is the body’s natural energy source provided by the food we eat. Diabetes interrupts the transportation of glucose around the body. As more and more glucose remnants in the bloodstream blood glucose or blood sugar levels can rise too high.
There are two types of diabetes; facts about both types, is looked at briefly here. Juvenile onset diabetes is called type one and usually, but not always, affects children and young adults but it effects the body’s natural production of insulin has ceased; this artificial means insulin must be given to the diabetic on a daily basis for them to live. Insulin is used by the body to control the amount of glucose there is the blood. The second form (type2) of diabetes more often than not affects people when they are older; this type can be controlled by diet or tablets but is also caused by problems with the insulin production or its function.
To stay alive we need energy, something which is supplied in abundance by everyday foods like various pastas, bread, potatoes, rice and fruit for instance. Many health conditions can be caused by long term high blood sugar levels including: poor vision, heart complaints, problems with the kidneys and in some cases even limb amputation. Specialists in diabetes will tell you that provided you do exactly what your care and management program tells you to do, your condition will start to improve; some of the possible conditions will be halted completely whilst others will be delayed.
Managing your condition means you must take control of certain areas of your life by ensuring you take your medication regularly; but this means sticking to your medication, watching your blood sugar, cholesterol and to stop smoking!
In addition, weight and blood pressure will need to be routinely monitored and kept stable. Diabetes cannot be cured and once diagnosed it is a lifelong complaint; currently approx 2.6 percent of the U.S. population or about 5.5 million Americans, are known to have this health problem.
However, it is estimated that about the same number of people again have the condition; each year there are over six hundred thousand new cases. The number of Americans who have diabetes and die each year is approximately 320,000 but only 34,000 die as a direct result of having the condition.
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