Diabetes is tought to Live With
Sunday, August 10th, 2008What Is Diabetes And How Does It Affect People?
We have all seen the commercials on television where the actor is very excited about their new diabetes meter for testing their blood sugar levels. Some of the actors are very famous like Wilford Brimley or BB King and the commercials run all day long every single day. Diabetes is a big business to the medical supply industry but what is diabetes? The questions of what is diabetes is asked by a lot of people and the answer is not as complex as you may think.
Diabetes is the inability for the patient?s digestive system to produce enough insulin to break down the glucose from carbohydrates that are taken when a person eats food. If there isn?t enough insulin to break down the glucose, or the patient?s system is resistant to the effects of insulin, then that glucose over takes the system and can begin to damage the internal organs of the body. So when you ask ?what is diabetes?? you are really asking a question about the digestive system of a human being and how that system processes the different materials that we take in. As our society becomes more and more dependent on processes sugars and simple carbohydrates more and more people are developing diabetes symptoms. This prompts the World Health Organization to answer the question of ?what is diabetes?? with the answer that it is becoming an epidemic.
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