Understanding Diabetes and How It Works
To understand diabetes you must know how the body works. Knowing what changes your body goes through, will help you better understand why complications happen. Our bodies break down the food we eat during digestion. Food is broken down to three groups, proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. Meat, fish, eggs, and other dairy products give us the protein we need. Fats are found in vegetable oils, meat, cheese, and some dairy products. Carbohydrates find their way into our bodies through starches and sugars. Bread, pasta, fruits, and vegetables all have starches and sugars.
Our carbohydrates then break down into blood sugar, this glucose gives us the energy that we need in our body. The energy we need to take a brisk walk, run after a child, or take an aerobics class, all comes from carbohydrates. Blood sugar needs the help of insulin to absorb the glucose. The pancreas puts out insulin and other enzymes important for digesting food. The pancreas is found near the stomach. The pancreas also may stop working because of alcohol abuse, disease, or if removed by surgery.
A diabetic’s body may produce little or no insulin, or the cells become insulin resistant. Glucose will back up into the body if cells don’t absorb blood sugar. The body will then get rid of the excess through frequent urination. That is one of the first symptoms of diabetes. Untreated diabetes causes severe complications, and many who are diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes already suffer from some form of complication. [Read the rest of the article here]
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