Diabetes Health Video
If you are a diabetic, this diabetes health video is for you!
You will be interested to know the following:
According to Dr. Catherine Stallworth, MD, who is a Physiologist at the Nashville Rehabilitation Hospital, diabetes is a problem that occurs in the body when the blood sugar levels become too high.
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She goes on to say that usually, this has to do with the way your body produces insulin. Either it is not doing it this effectively or there is a problem in that area, as sometimes, the body does not produce it any longer.
Basically, insulin helps the body to metabolize glucose. Now, to most of us, this means nothing, so just take note that glucose is what our body uses to generate energy, it is our “fuel”, so to speak and metabolizing is the fancy word for processing the stuff.
When the body “metabolizes” chemicals, understand that it is only a way of saying that it is changing chemicals so they can be used in another way. When you eat bread, your body needs to change the building blocks it is made of so that it can use it as fuel.
It is why we eat!
Science has discovered that normal values for blood sugar (glucose) in the blood are between 70 and 100 milligrams/deciliter, roughly that would be 70 times 1 thousandth of a gram per 1 tenth of a liter.
Again, if one is not trained, these numbers are meaningless. But if one has to find out if someone is diabetic, or pre-diabetic, these values become useful to know about.
Medics agree to say that a glucose level between 100 and 125 could indicate a pre-diabetic condition. Anyone having a value of 126 or above is considered to be diabetic.
Note that these values are measured from a blood sample taken while fasting, usually, after a good night’s sleep and not having absorbed any food or drank anything else but a simple glass of pure water.
When we speak of Type 1 diabetes, this means the person’s body is not producing insulin at all. This is also referred to as juvenile onset diabetes.
When we speak of type 2 diabetes, it is that there is a resistance to insulin in the body. This means that the insulin is not as effective as it should be in helping the glucose move into the body’s cells.
Some symptoms related to diabetes:
- Excessive hunger
- Excessive thirst
- Frequent urination
- Blurred vision
- Unexplained weight loss
- Numbness and/or tingling in hands and/or feet
Type 1 diabetics most often will get treatment involving receiving insulin.
Type 2 diabetics are very often having obesity related problems.
Dr. Stall further says she recommends her type 2 diabetes patients to start a lifestyle treatment, this involves changing eating habits and doing more sport on a regular basis to stabilize the glucose levels in the bloodstream.
Also good to know is that it is indicated to avoid foods that score high on the glycemic index.
