Diabetes

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“What do you see when you look at your high school graduation picture? My wife and I recently attended a formal party honoring a community leader. The party organizers did their and made a blow-up of the honoree’s high school graduation picture, which was dramatically unveiled before the after-dinner speeches. The picture showed a skinny kid with a big smile and lots of hair. The community leader is now a balding, rotund man in his fifties. After dinner as I chatted with his wife, she looked at the large photo of the skinny high school kid and then at her husband, whose tuxedo shirt was stretched tightly across his belly, and wistfully whispered, ‘that’s what diabetes does to you.’”(
That was an exert from an article entitled “As the Worm Turns on Diabetes and Obesity.” Everyone of us has come in contact with someone suffering from diabetes. There are over 100 million diabetics, 16 million of which live in the United States. Some of the factors that will lead to an increase in those suffering from diabetes will be in type 2 diabetics and is resulting from increasing obesity and inactivity. Also important is low birth weight, predisposing people to develop diabetes.
What is diabetes? According to the book Diabetes Mellitus: Diagnosis and Treatment, Diabetes is not a single disease with a single cause like many people believe it to be. On the contrary, diabetes is a collection of diseases, some of which are more difficult to control than others. If you are one of the many to be diagnosed with diabetes, than your body either lacks insulin, or the insulin you have is not doing its job properly.
“Insulin is a hormone, and the role of that it plays is to convert the food we eat into various useful substances, discarding everything that is wasteful. It is the job of insulin to see that the useful substances are put to best use for our well-being.” ( )
These useful substances are then used immediately or are store...