what are the reasons of diabetes?
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there are two types, type 1 and type 2. type one is a defect with your pancreas, which is usually diganosed before puberty.  there is no way to prevent type 1.  type 2 is completely preventable.  type 2 is the most common, something like 98% of the cases, and this is caused by being overweight.  there has been a strong link, where if it runs in your family, you are more suseptible to it.  the best way to prevent this is to stay close to your ideal body weight.  this can be calculated by the equation:\nFor males:\nIdeal body weight= 50 + (2.3 x Height in inches over 5ft)\nfor females:\nIBW= 45.5 + (2.3 x Height in inches over 5ft)\n\nThese give your weight in kilograms, to convert to pounds, multiply by 2.2\n\nfor example if your a woman 5'5'' the equation would be:\nIBW= 45.5 + (2.3 x 5) = 57 kg x 2.2 = 125.4 lbs.\n\nIf you stay close to your ideal body weight, you have almost no chance of developing type 2 diabetes.  For type 2 diabetes, it all has to do with your weight, not what you eat.\n\nThe reason why you don't want type 2 diabetes if because there are MANY complications associated with it, including cataracts, blindness, heart disease and amputations, just to name a small few.\n\nIf you are overweight, find a great support group and lose weight the old-fashioned way, diet and exercise.  Diets don't work, changing your lifestyle works.  There is always hope for losing weight, the Dr. Phil weightloss book is really good.
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Well, studies show that if you have 2 or more of this symptoms, you may be diabetic.\n\n- frequent urination.\n- blurring of your eyesight\n- you easily get tired\n- numbness of the fingers and toes\n- wounds that take time to heal, or worst, it doesn’t heal!\n- Severe weight loss\n- frequent itchiness of parts of the body\n\nAnd well, to know if you are at risk of diabetes- here are the factors that could make you diabetic.\n\n-Family history of diabetes\n -Obese\n -High Cholesterol Level\n -Doesn't Exercise Often\n -Habitual Smoker\n -Often stressed out\n -High-blood\n - And for women: If you have given birth to a baby weighing more than 9lbs (4kg.) or have experienced an increase in blood sugar level during pregnancy.
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Without maintaining good control of your blood sugars, you can suffer from kidney disease, blindness caused by diabetic retinopathy, ulcers or possible amputation as a result from neuropathy to name a few.
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Type 2 diabetes is a lifelong disease that develops when the pancreas cannot produce enough insulin or when the body's tissues become resistant to insulin. \n\nThis usually develops in adults although it can develop at any age. \n\nType 2 diabetes is caused by insulin resistance, which occurs when the body's cells and tissues do not respond properly to insulin. Your weight, level of physical activity, and family history affect how your body responds to insulin. People who are overweight, get little or no exercise, or have diabetes in their family have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
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Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism.\n\nType 1 diabetes\n- an autoimmune disease\n- pancreas produces little or no insulin\n- must take insulin dailiy to live\n\nType 2 diabetes\n- most common form\n- 80 percent of people with type 2 diabetes are overweight\n- body cannot use insulin effectively even though enough is produced (insulin resistance)\n- insulin production decreases after several years\n\nGestational diabetes\n- women can develop it late in pregnancy\n\nA Cure?\nResearchers continue to look for the cause or causes of diabetes and ways to manage, prevent, or cure the disorder. Scientists are searching for genes that may be involved in type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Some genetic markers for type 1 diabetes have been identified, and it is now possible to screen relatives of people with type 1 diabetes to determine whether they are at risk.
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Type 1 diabetes (aka, insulin-dependent diabetes)is a severe, chronic form of diabetes caused by insufficient production of insulin and resulting in abnormal metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. The disease, which typically appears in childhood or adolescence, is characterized by increased sugar levels in the blood and urine, excessive thirst, frequent urination, acidosis, and wasting.\n\nType 2 diabetes (aka non-insulin-dependent diabetes) is a mild form of diabetes that typically appears first in adulthood and is exacerbated by obesity and an inactive lifestyle. This disease often has no symptoms, is usually diagnosed by tests that indicate glucose intolerance, and is treated with changes in diet and an exercise regimen.
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That's not good.  It's one of the main warning signs of diabetes.  Go to your doctor and get tested.  If it's diabetes, you can pretty much control it by doing the right things.  If you DON'T do these things you are in for major health problems and you will die young.
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Diabetes is an auto-immune dysfunction and depression is as well.  When your system is acidic and your sugars are not balanced you feel depressed.  \nLet me know if you would like more information on this....
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Scientific evidence indicates that diets high in sugars do not cause diabetes. The most common type of diabetes occurs in overweight adults. Avoiding sugars alone will not correct overweight. To lose weight, reduce the total amount of calories from the food you eat and increase your level of physical activity.
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Nothing in particular, except smoking. Smoking causes characteristic damage to several body systems, and it reinforces the damage diabetes does. No one needs both at work. Give it up! If you have lost feeling in the feet, it's best by far to check them often for signs of blisters or cuts or skin breaks of any kind. The reason is that, if you can't feel it, you won't take care of it. Diabetes is the largest cause of amputation in adults in theh North America save trauma (like automobile accidents). The reason is largely reduced circulation, and reduced wound healing, and increased infection severity in many diabetics. Watch those feet.   \n\n\nNo food, or food type, is inherently bad for diabetics, and in the case of Type 1 diabetics, there is less concern for various kinds of food than for Type 2 diabetics, for whom excess weight seems to both bring on Type 2, but also to make more severe cases. \n\nThe problem for Type 1s is that, producing no insulin of their own, it's necessary to provide insulin from the outside, and to come as close as possible to the non-diabetic levels of insulin so that blood glucose levels are as near normal as possible. Insulin controls how, and how much, about 2.3 of body cells taek up glucose from the blood. Among much else, of course, for it is a hormone which has wide and varied effects throughout the body. \n\nThere are several things which affect how fast and high blood glucose goes: \n\n--First is how much food is eaten. In this case, sugar (sucrose), milk sugar (lactose), starch (many glucoses stuck together in chains), fat (a small part of fats -- the glycerol backbone -- can be converted to glucose in the body), and so on. All provide glucose, eventually, to the blood. One of the purpsoes of the 'exchange' system is to provide a handy way to estimate the food quantities eaten. \n\n--Second is exercise. Even without insulin, exercise (even mild exercise such as a brisk walk) causes glucose to be uptaken by muscle cells. Given any partiuclar amount of food, exercising before the meal will result in less inculin needed than otherwise, since the mechanisms are independent. teh effect lasts for some hours, so a brisk walk for 30 minutes just after luch will still increase glucose absorprion rates of food eaten at dinner.  \n\n--Third, is the amount of insulin. All other things being equal, more insulin means that more glucose will be absorbed from the blood by body cells and less insulin will mean less. \n\n--Fourth, type of insulin. There are several types of insulin. They vary largely by how long their effect (forcing absroption of glucose from the blood) lasts, and whether there is a marked peak in action. So, a given amount of regular insulin acts faster and more intensely than lente ('slow') insulin which takes longer to exhaust itself, or ultra lente ('very slow') insulin. NPH insulin falls between regular and lente in speed of action adn suration of action. The analog insulins (one from Lilly and one from Novo Nordisk) are much more quickly acting, beginning totake effect with 15 or 20 minutes and being done in an hour or perhaps an hour and a half. Two special insulins, Lantus and Detemir, are unusual in that they exhibit very little peak of action. Their insulin effect  takes place steadily over about 24 hours. \n\nLocation of administration also has a secondary effect on how long the insulin effect lasts. \n\n--Fifth is the composition of the food eaten.  For example, skim milk contains lactose (a mildly sweetish dual sugar) which is disassembled into its component simple sugars and absorbed by the intestines. Drinking the same amount of whole milk delivers the same amount of lactose, but much more slowly since the butterfat in the whole milk slows down digestive action on the lactose. A baked potato eaten 'dry' will be converted to glucose and absorbed, while the smae amount of potato eaten with butter or sour cream is much more slowly a
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Teh most common sorts of diabetes are quite different, have different causes, and only share (confusingly) complications. I'll take them one at a time. \n\n=================\nType 1\n\nType 1 at 5-10% of all diabetics in the developed world. It is an auto-immune disease, somewhat in the manner of some kinds of artritis or lupus. The susceptibility to it is inherited and is associated with some kinds of HLA antigens. But it also seems to require, in most cases, an environmental trigger as well. This is most often an infection: one of the Coxsackie viruses, or German measles, for instance. it is the infection which triggers the immune system to attack and destory the Beta cells in the pancreas. it is often seen in children and so has been called juvenile diabetes.  \n\n============\nType 2\n\nType 2 has a very different origin. It is much more stongly inherited, and yet it is also associated with environmental conditions. About 2/3 of all cells in the body require insluin to absorb glucose (ie, fuel) fromthe blood. Type 2 is characterized by resistance to this insulin action to a greater or lesser degree. It often starts slow, with only somewhat elevated blood sugar levels, and sometimes progresses from there. It's most common in adults (hence the obsolete term, 'adult-onset diabetes'), and it's associated with overweight (hence the obsolete term, 'obesity related diabetes'). It is clear that environment is an important part of the causation since the 'Western diet' is clearly indicated. What exactly it is not clear. Most Type 2 diabetes can be adequately controlled by diet, exercies, and sometimes oral medications. A portion of type 2 diabetics eventually fail to respond to the oral medications, and they generally end up using insulin. \n\nGestational diabetes seems to be the result of the hormonal changes of pregnancy combined with an inheritied tendency toward Type 2. It generally ends with the pregnancy, though a portion of the women go on to develop Type 2 later on.
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After someone has diabetes for a long period of time and they do not control it properly or in some cases even if they do,they develop fatty plaque in the blood vessels.The reason they do is because they cannot properly metabolize fats so they float in the bloodstream and accumulate on the walls of the vessel .This fat causes the vessels to narrow and the blood has a harder time circulating through them.This causes the heart to have to pump harder to get the blood out through the narrow vessels and the resistance of the blood flow against the narrow vessel causes hypertension.Another reason for hypertension in diabetes is that they frequently have kidney damage and the kidneys play a role in blood pressure regulation.
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It occurs when a diabetic person's blood sugar gets very high-generally over 350-400.  It is a medical emergency.  You can avoid it by frequent testing of your blood sugar & treating your blood sugar appropriately.
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You are referring to a blood glucose meter, which is a device that measure the amount of sugar in the blood. Diabetes is an illness that is caused by malfunction of the pancreas. The pancreas distributes natural insulin to the blood to maintain healthy blood sugar levels.The symptom that is most easily detected is high or low (hyperglcymic or hypoglycymic) blood sugar. High blood sugar will cause you to be extremely thirsty, feel tired, and to urinate frequently. Low blood sugar will generally make you feel woozy, clammy, and unstable.\n     Diabetes is a horrible illness because it damages your body without you necessarily feeling it. Diabetes can lead to liver problems, blindness, amputation of limbs due to poor circulation, heart problems, and a whole slew of other medical problems. Get checked ASAP!!!
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The most common symtoms of diabetes is excessive thirst, sometimes itching of the genitals, extreme hunger, increased fatigue, irritability, unusual weight loss and frequent urination. If you are experiencing any of these symptoms discuss it with your doctor. The test they do is very simple, some pharmacies in the UK do the tests.
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High blood-sugar over time can lead to complications, like neuropathy, blindness, kidney failure, and death, so it is important to control blood-sugar to prevent this from happening. Temperature has very little to do with diabetes, except that fever sometimes indicates an infection, which would be more dangerous for diabetics than everyone else.
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Diabetes and heart disease are definitely connected.Diabetes affects almost all of the systems in your body.People with diabetes are at a far greater risk of suffering heart attacks,strokes etc...Some scientists believe now that the "free" sugar that is not brought into the cells,but courses through your vascular system aids in the fatty deposits that block your arteries by encouraging that fat to stick to the blood vessels.That is why diabetes should be watched closely and kept under control.