Eating Healthy Living With Diabetes

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Eating a Healthy Diet to Maintain your Diabetes Lets discuss diabetes for some of you who are unfamiliar with it. Your body digests food and breaks it down into energy. There are a few things that happen when your body digests the food. A sugar that enters your body is known as glucose, which is a source of fuel for the body. You have an organ in your body called the pancreas, which makes insulin and the insulin is used to push the glucose from your bloodstream into your liver cells, fat cells and muscles, where it will be stored and used to fuel your body. The reason why people with diabetes have high blood sugar is because their body can not move the sugar into their liver, muscle and fat cells. There can be two reasons for this or both. Their body cells do not respond to insulin or the pancreas does not make enough insulin. There are two different types of diabetes. There is type one, which seems to be most diagnosed in children or young adults. This type of diabetes requires that the person has to take daily insulin shots. This is because the body makes little or no insulin. The cause of this type of diabetes seems to be unknown. The other type of diabetes is known as type two diabetes and this type usually occurs mostly in adults. There are also more than over 20 million Americans who suffer from diabetes and more than over 40 million Americans have pre diabetes. Doctors are claiming that if you have a family member who has diabetes, you have a greater chance of getting it. They are also claiming that a lot of people have type two diabetes and don't even know it! Doctors are also saying that people who have type two diabetes, which develops slowly that have high blood sugar have no symptoms. There are some symptoms that can be caused by high blood sugar, which include blurry vision, excessive thirst, fatigue, hunger, urinating often and weight loss. There are tests that can be given to check to see if you have diabetes by urinalysis tests and blood work. If you feel that you may be a diabetic or have some of these symptoms, go to your doctor for a checkup. My girlfriend has just been diagnosed with diabetes through her primary physician around a month ago and they want to do further testing to see if she has pre diabetes or type two. They have placed her medication, but have not told here yet that she has to take insulin injections. Copy and paste link into your browser to see full article http://www.squidoo.com/eating-healthy-living-with-diabetes