Diabetes is a lifelong disease in which a person's body either does not produce enough insulin. Insulin is a hormone that works to control the amount of glucose in the blood. Glucose is really just sugar. When your body digests the foods you eat, it changes the carbohydrates, as well as some of the proteins and fat into glucose.
Taking insulin injection everyday strikes fear and dread into the hearts of many. On the surface of the body's cells, there are special places called receptors, where the insulin normally attach itself. If the insulin is bond to those receptors as it should be, it allows glucose to move from the bloodstream into the cells and be used for energy, but with spoiled receptors, the insulin is not effective in doing its work. In some cases, insulin fails because of spoiled receptors.
Today many adults do not understand diabetes any better than nine-year old's. So let's take a look at what at what diabetes really is. To be accurate, we should call the disease by its full name, diabetes mellitus, to avoid confusion with a much rarer and totally different type of diabetes, called insipidus. But average person knows the disease simply as diabetes.
Type I diabetes (also called insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, or IDDM) occurs when the insulin-producing cells in the body do not function, and they make little or no insulin. If the body does not even produce insulin, the glucose cannot move into the cells. To stay alive, the majority of these people will have to depend on insulin injections for the rest of their lives. Type I is the much less common form of diabetes-only about 10~20 percent of all diabetes are insulin-dependent. This kind of diabetes usually begins in childhood or youth.
Type II diabetes (also called non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, or NIDDM) most often begins in overweight adults who are over age of 40. With Type II diabetes, the pancreas does still produce some insulin. In some cases, the body is simply not making enough insulin. In other cases, however, the body may be making an adequate amount of insulin, but that insulin is no longer effective because the cells' insulin receptors are jammed, even this may not help.
The best aid and no one can deny it are( sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise and diet) If only you are willing to give yourself the very best health possible. One should find a good trusting doctor or specialist (diabetologist or endocrinologist).
A new start:
Nutrition - eating plenty of fruits, vegetables, and unrefined grains.
Exercise - regular, moderate exercise everyday.
Water - actually may be very helpful in avoiding diabetic complications.
Sunshine - helps to destroy germs, because infections are a constant threat to a diabetic
Temperance - too much of anything may be harmful rather than beneficial/avoid things which are harmful to the body.
Air - fresh air, free from pollution or tobacco smoke.
Rest - 7~8 hours of sleep/short holidays away from work.
Trust in Divine power - faith in God.
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