by iWrite

Created on: December 09, 2009

 Diabetes is a disease in which your body doesn’t produce enough insulin. Insulin is a hormone that allows the cells in your body to absorb glucose, and then the cells turn it into energy. So without insulin, you can’t produce energy from insulin. People with diabetes either can’t make insulin, or their body doesn’t respond properly to the hormone.  Diabetes was first mentioned around the year 1425, but has only been fully understood since the 1900’s, and in present times we still have questions about it.

There are three types of diabetes, Type 1, Type 2, and Gestational Diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is when the body cannot produce insulin. Type 2 diabetes is when cells cannot work with the insulin correctly. Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that pregnant women get when they have high blood sugar.

Though there are no cures to diabetes they have treatments out there. People with type 1 diabetes get insulin shots, which provide them with the insulin that they need. People that have type 2 diabetes can often control their condition by losing weight, and eating better. Sometimes people with type 2 diabetes need insulin shots as well. Pregnant women that have gestational diabetes need to eat healthy, and continue good exercising to help keep their blood sugar down. Some women with gestational diabetes may also need insulin injections, and their blood sugar must be monitored regularly.

The causes for the types of diabetes are very different from each other. People with type 1 diabetes often have inherited it from their parents, or had a bad early diet when they were young. People with type 2 diabetes usually eat too much unhealthy foods, and don’t workout enough or at all. So often people that are obese. People with gestational diabetes are just people with high blood sugar levels, that sometimes have a family history of diabetics. Gestational diabetes almost always disappears after a women’s pregnancy.

Diabetes is a very big disease that concerns all demographics in the world. Although we have a lot of knowledge and can use that to help diabetics, it hasn't always been that way. Diabetes was a very dangerous disease many years ago, and killed most people that were diagnosed with it. Now that we know more about it, we can help the people with it, but scientists and doctors still have many questions dealing with diabetes. Diabetes is something that many people live with today, and still continue a somewhat normal life.

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