[www.keralites.net] If You're Not Sure What Exactly Diabetes Is Or What It Does

 

We all have an aunt or uncle who is diabetic, but most of us don't know much about the condition except for the fact that a diabetic person cant eat a lot of sugar. Well, we've broken it down for you, and the video at the end of the page will clear up your doubts.

When we eat food, the carbohydrates are broken down into simpler sugars during digestion. 

Carbohydrates include bread, rice, pasta, potatoes, fruits, milk and yoghurt. 

In most people, this sugar goes from the stomach to the bloodstream, and finally to the bodys muscle and fat cells.

These cells use the sugar for energy.

The pancreas produce a hormone called insulin that helps the sugar enter the bodys cells. 

As the sugar leaves the bloodstream and enters the muscle and fat cells, the bodys blood sugar levels go down. 

In a person who has diabetes, this process gets disrupted for one of these two reasons.

The sugar is unable to enter the cells, and so it remains in the blood, causing blood sugar levels to become extremely high. 

Because sugar is unable to enter the cells, the body doesn't get the energy it needs.

Over time, high blood sugar levels cause problems in other organs like the eyes, nerves, kidneys and heart.

 

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Posted by: Fereshteh Jamshidi <fayjay81@yahoo.com>

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