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People with diabetes can not produce or properly use insulin, resulting in an elevation of glucose in the blood.

Although there is a strong genetic component, it is known that the Mediterranean diet is a key factor in preventing the onset of diabetes. In addition, in patients who already have diabetes, proper nutrition is a fundamental point of treating the disease, as it helps regulate the level of sugar in the body and prevent future complications.

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Do not think that you will return neurotic for having diabetes, neuropathy means that your nervous system, which transmits messages from your brain to the rest of your body, it begins to be affected by diabetes without your realizing it.

Diabetic neuropathy is a disease of the nervous system caused by diabetes, and you can avoid it.

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A new study says that increased consumption of sweetened beverages and smoothies or fruit flavored soft drinks, may have favored the emergence of new cases of diabetes and cardiovascular disease over the last decade.

These conclusions are based on the results of a simulation model created from large epidemiological studies conducted in the U.S.. According to this model, increased consumption of sweetened beverages between 1990 and 2000 favored the appearance of 130,000 new cases of diabetes, 14,000 new cases of ischemic heart disease and 50,000 years of life with coronary heart disease over the decade .
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Although type 2 diabetes is a disease most seen in adults, children are not exempt. They too, despite his young age, suffer from this type of diabetes. How can you identify if your child has symptoms of type 2 diabetes and when to take him to the doctor?

Type 2 diabetes in children is partly due to a genetic cause, but also to environmental factors. Diet and lack of exercise contribute to the increase in the rate of type 2 diabetes in children, to the extent considered an epidemic closely linked to obesity.

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There are two types of diabetes: juvenile (or type 1 diabetes mellitus) and in adults, obese and pregnant (type 2).

The following symptoms are typical of children and adolescents: pee more often than normal (polyuria) for having increased their urine output, this occurs both day and night, are very thirsty and drink too much water (polydipsia), lose weight even if they have more appetite (polofagia).

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To understand insulin resistance, it helps to understand a little about how insulin works and its role in the body. Insulin is an essential hormone created in the pancreas, which is involved in the metabolism of sugars in the body. Without it, we can not turn the food we eat into usable energy.

When we eat something, a lot of digested food is converted into glucose, the main energy source of the body. The pancreas then responds to blood sugar levels by secreting insulin in increasing the flow of blood. Most cells in your body contain insulin receptors that help insulin bind to the cell. Once insulin binds to the cell, activate other receptor sites, allowing glucose to enter the cell and provide energy for life.

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Maren Brinker is a German national volleyball player and is currently under contract with USC Munster. What hardly anyone knows: Since 2002, the top athlete in type 1 diabetes is sick. This however does not prevent them from pursuing their sport still studying.

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A great support for anyone with diabetes, the blood glucose self-regulation. It allows the patients on a personal security because they are always informed about the level of their current value and can respond quickly if needed. The patient can then have full control his illness and thus optimize treatment outcomes. For Type-1 diabetes, the blood glucose self-regulation already considered standard therapy, while in type-2 diabetes, most commonly used with insulin treatment. The application for type-2 diabetes without insulin treatment is controversial, especially in recent times.

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Diabetes is the interplay of genetic and environmental factors causing the disease because of insufficient insulin secretion in absolute or relative lack of objective and reduce cell sensitivity to insulin, leading to elevated blood glucose levels, which in the body metabolic disorder. Typical symptoms for a little more than three, that is, more drinks, more food, more urine and weight loss. Long-term illness can be complicated by heart, brain, kidneys, eyes and nervous system and other diseases.

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Insulin therapy can be given earlier for the physically Diabetes Mellitus (DM) or type-2 diabetes who need, but not the last such therapy which is believed all along.

So far not a lot of insulin therapy is given to people with type-2 DM, because this therapy is considered as the last therapy or therapy for patients nearing death. As a result patients often refuse given insulin therapy, doctors also rarely want to give it, mostly because it considers the procedure is too complicated and troublesome because they have the patience to train the patient to inject insulin. And they are not.

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