As of today most adults and the elderly suffer from being diagnosed with a disease known as type-2 diabetes. The most common type of diabetes is type-2 diabetes and about 90-95% of the people with diabetes have type-2 diabetes. Type-2 diabetes is defined as a disorder in your metabolic system and is described as high blood sugar‚ lack of insulin‚ and resistant to insulin. This disease can also be received by it running through the family. Many people do not acknowledge this disease because it is
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making Type-2 Diabetes rampant in young patients‚ and allowing Cardiovascular Disease to become common for many bystanders. This is from the fact individuals are consuming fast
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What is Type 2 Diabetes? Type 2 Diabetes is a lifelong disease in which there is a high level of sugar (glucose) in the blood. It is the most common form of diabetes. Obesity is common in patients with type 2 diabetes. Statistics show that four out of five victims of type 2 diabetes are overweight of obese. Type 2 diabetes is a condition in which ones pancreas makes enough insulin‚ but the body cannot use the insulin correctly. This is called insulin resistance. Insulin resistance occurs in
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1. Introduction 22 Diabetes mellitus is the 7th leading cause of death in US. Diabetes is broadly classified into two 23 types: type I and type II. Type I diabetes is a result of insufficient insulin production by pancreas‚ 24 whereas type II diabetes is due to the body’s inability to use the insulin that is produced‚ hence the 25 name insulin resistance is used to refer to type II diabetes. Currently‚ individuals with diabetes are 26 able to monitor their blood glucose levels using a glucometer
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Ever wondered about Diabetes? You may never have known that it is one of the most commonly misunderstood diseases in our world today. One of the reasons for this is because a lot of people think that Diabetes is affected by sugar intake. Well that is definitely wrong because Diabetes is all about the control and regulation of Insulin; a growth hormone produced in the pancreas. Insulin’s primary role is to control the level of blood glucose or blood sugar in the body in order to keep it from getting
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Type 2 Diabetes Speech: What is type 2 diabetes? Type 2 diabetes occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin‚ this means that the person is therefore resistant to insulin or their body does not know how to react to it. The function of insulin for those who don’t know is to control blood glucose levels. Symptoms of type 2 diabetes include: Hunger Thirst Loss of eyesight Extreme fatigue Headaches Urination frequently Weight loss (even though you are feeling hungry and
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INTRODUCTION HYPOTHESIS A diabetes epidemic is underway. The worldwide increasing rate of obesity has imposed its threat on millions of people. Poor lifestyle choices and a lack of physical exercise will eventually result in a worldwide epidemic. Type 2 diabetes is a lifestyle disease that millions of people worldwide suffer from. Type 2 diabetics are insulin resistant and generally suffer from obesity‚ hypertension and other serious illnesses. This disease can however be controlled and prevented
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and Type 2 Diabetes Yvonne Gill Com/156 November 30‚ 2012 John Likides Nutrition and Type 2 Diabetes There have been studies on the risk of type 2 diabetes and how the risk of getting type 2 diabetes can be successfully reduced by changing lifestyle habits (Tuomilehto et al‚ 2001). The most favorable dietary option for persons with diabetes has long been a subject of debate. Nutritionists have been trying to find a healthy eating plan that works for people with type 2 diabetes to
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Diabetes Mellitus is a metabolic disease that occurs when a body is unable to produce insulin‚ is unable to adequately use the insulin produced‚ or is unable to produce enough insulin for what the body needs‚ and therefore results in a body not being able to process sugars properly. There are two main types of diabetes. Type 1 is where the body does not produce any insulin and so the person is dependent on taking insulin shots to survive. Type 2 is where the body can produce insulin but may not be
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Type 2 Diabetes accounts for 90% to 95% of all diabetes diagnoses and of the estimated 43 million adults who are over the age of 65‚ one in four has diabetes. It is very common for a nurse in any health care setting to care for an older adult who has diabetes. Hypoglycemia is one of the dangers associated with the diagnoses of diabetes. In the timespan from 2006 to 2009 adults 75 years or older who were diagnosed with diabetes visited the emergency room for hypoglycemia almost three times more than
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