With the obesity rates rising, more and more people are developing type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is when the body does not produce enough insulin or the insulin that is produced is not used by the body. Without the proper amount of insulin your body can’t use glucose to produce energy. Glucose is the fuel for all the cells of the body and without your body can just shut down.

There are many different medical complications that one can get from not having their diabetes under control. Just some of the possible medical complications from type 2 diabetes are: heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, eye degeneration or blindness, gum disease, poor foot circulation which leads to severe foot problems and even amputations, nerve damage and depression. These complications are why it is so important that one needs to be treated and adhere to a healthy lifestyle program when diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

Although type 2 diabetes is a very serious condition, it can be kept under control with the proper lifestyle program. The American Diabetes Association helps to put out the proper information about how one can control type 2 diabetes. They constantly research ways to prevent, cure and fight diabetes. They provide tons of information to both doctors and patients who have diabetes and need help and advice. One lifestyle program that they recently endorsed was Kathy Smith’s Project:YOU! Type 2.

Kathy Smith’s Project:YOU! Type 2 is a revolutionary lifestyle program that was developed by doctors, certified diabetes educators and the American Diabetes Association. It’s all inclusive program that shows people how to fight against type 2 diabetes. It’s not only for people who have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes but also for anybody who is pre-diabetic and wants to prevent getting the disease. The lifestyle program contains a workout guide with workouts designed by fitness trainer Kathy Smith, a cookbook for healthy eating for diabetics, meal cards, and a program guide with a journal to keep track of your personal goals and information.

The American Diabetes Association doesn’t put their seal of approval just any program. The program must meet the guidelines that the association puts forth from the extensive research that they have done. They only choose a few number of programs that they officially approve for the management and prevention of type 2 diabetes.

If you have diabetes and you don’t chose to follow Kathy Smith’s Project:YOU! Type 2, you still need to know that living a healthy lifestyle is the best way to manage your disease. Eating healthy and watching your carbohydrates along with regular exercise is the only way to fight against type 2 diabetes. People with type 2 diabetes can still live a long and healthy life, they just have to be willing to put in the work to make sure that they are healthy and strong.

 



By: Tiffany Brunskole

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Diabetes is a condition featuring unusually high levels of glucose in the bloodstream. Insulin, produced by the pancreas, is used by the body to lower blood glucose levels.

Insulin is manufactured in the pancreas by beta cells that are found in the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. This deficiency in the production of insulin and the resistance of some tissues from receiving insulin results to diabetes. Insulin, produced by the pancreas, is used by the body to lower blood glucose levels. If someone’s pancreas doesn’t generate enough insulin .

Excess glucose is passed out of the body through urine. Excess ********* appears because of the large quantity of sugar that are deversed in the urine. This will make a person urinate very often making him wake in the middle of the night. Excess ********* are often associated with diabetes problems The cause of excess ********* is high sugar content in the urine. It will make the person go to the bathroom often to urinate and often disrupts their sleeps.

Excess weight can make your tissues more resistant to the action of insulin, which increases your blood sugar level. And the more fatty tissue you have, the more resistant your cells become. Excess sugar in the urine is called glycosuria.

Type 1 generally is found in child and young adults with heart disease, blindness and kidney damage are of the biggest concerns. Type 2 is the most common where the body doesn’t produce enough insulin so the body is able to use up the sugar intake. Type 1 diabetes develops stop when the pancreas produce insulin. It can occur at any age, but usually appears in children and young adults under the age of 30 That is the reason why type 1 is often Juvenile Diabetes.

Type 2 diabetes occurs in 90% of people with diabetes. These people do have some insulin production, however they may not produce enough or it may not work the way it is supposed to in the body. Type 1 diabetes starts because the body destroys the beta cells. Experts don’t know why this happens. Type 2 diabetes is different from type 1. The bodies of most people with type 2 make insulin but can’t use it well.

Weight fluctuations also fall under the umbrella of possible diabetes symptoms. When you lose sugar through frequent urination, you also lose calories. Weight loss may occur.

Treatment focuses on relief of the symptoms caused by the nerve damage. Medications, physical therapy and adaptive equipment can be used to help with pain and weakness. Treatment of diabetes starts with a healthy diet and regular exercise . Your diet should be low in refined sugars , fats (especially trans fats found in deep-fried and fast food), and animal products.

Diet alone or by a diet combined with insulin or glucose lowering medication cannot achieve maximum benefits. The treatment regime must include regulated exercise and regular monitoring of the blood glucose levels. Diet and exercise are other considerations that are very important for diabetics to address. Proper medical guidance and self-care can go a long way towards helping you effectively manage your condition now and for years to come.



By: Alexis-Blaise Kenne

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Diabetes mellitus is the blood sugar level is high is unusual chaotic because the body does not produce the enough insulin. Normally, blood glucose levels are tightly controlled by insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas. Insulin lowers the blood glucose level. When the blood glucose elevates, insulin is released from the pancreas to normalize the glucose level. In patients with diabetes, the absence or insufficient production of insulin causes hyperglycemia. Diabetes is the most significant cause of adult blindness in the non-elderly, the leading cause of non-traumatic amputation in adults, and diabetic nephropathy is the main illness requiring renal dialysis in the united states. Therefore deficiency of insulin or the insensitivity of its receptors plays a central role in all forms of diabetes mellitus.

Severe or recurring pancreatitis and other diseases that directly damage the pancreas can lead to diabetes. As outlined above, in patients with diabetes, the insulin is either absent, relatively insufficient for the body’s needs, or not used properly by the body. All of these factors cause elevated levels of blood glucose. People with diabetes may experience many serious, long-term complications. Some of these complications begin within months of the onset of diabetes, although most tend to develop after a few years. Most of the complications are progressive. Elevated levels of blood glucose lead to spillage of glucose into the urine. People with diabetes often develop bacterial and fungal infections, typically of the skin. When the levels of sugar in the blood are high, white blood cells cannot effectively fight infections.

The diabetes can cause a lot of complications. The sharp complications can prevent if the sickness is not sufficiently checked. Diabetes mellitus is characterized by disordered metabolism and inappropriately high blood sugar resulting from either low levels of the hormone insulin or from abnormal resistance to insulin’s effects coupled with inadequate levels of insulin secretion to compensate. Diabetes is also an important factor in accelerating the hardening and narrowing of the arteries, leading to strokes, coronary heart disease, and other large blood vessel diseases. This is referred to as macrovascular disease. The characteristic symptoms are excessive urine production, excessive thirst and increased fluid intake, and blurred vision. These symptoms are likely to be absent if the blood sugar is only mildly elevated. Poor healing of wounds, particularly of the feet, can lead to gangrene, which may require amputation.

The diabetes mellitus present is one kind of old disease, has not treated, and the medical service must be essential with emphasis is avoiding the possible short-term as well as long-term with diabetes related problems. Diabetes screening is recommended for many people at various stages of life, and for those with any of several risk factors. The screening test varies according to circumstances and local policy, and may be a random blood glucose test, a fasting blood glucose test or an even more formal glucose tolerance test. Adequate treatment of diabetes, as well as increased emphasis on blood pressure control and lifestyle factors, may improve the risk profile of most aforementioned complications. Another treatment option is the use of the insulin pump with some of the most popular pump brands being: cozmo, animas, medtronic minimed, and omnipod.



By: Juliet Cohen

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Diabetes is now becoming increasingly widespread across both adults and children. A lot of this is down to obesity and the vast amounts of sugar and refined white flour that is in our diet these days, but how do we know if we have diabetes and what are the signs of diabetes we need to look out for?

Well first of all lets get an understanding of what diabetes is. The first thing we need to understand is that there are two types of diabetes. Type 1 diabetes occurs when the pancreas doesn’t produce enough insulin, and type 2 when the body’s cells don’t respond well to insulin. Both result in high blood sugar levels because the body is unable to process the available glucose. At one time type 1 was known as juvenile diabetes as it was mainly found in younger people, and type 2 was expected to be found in older people, but this is not necessarily the case now.

At present it is not really known what causes type 1, but it occurs when the immune system attacks the insulin-producing part of pancreas. With this form of diabetes, the beta cells of the pancreas no longer make insulin because the body?s immune system has attacked and destroyed them, this leads to this form of diabetes being controlled mainly by insulin injections.

Type 2, which is probably now the most common type, is often caused by poor diet and obesity.  Quite often you can control this type of diabetes with a combination of dietary treatment , tablets and injections and, frequently, insulin supplementation.

So now we know what the diabetes type are what are the signs of diabetes to look out for?

The signs can be very similar in both type 1 & 2 due to the drop in blood sugar levels. This could be down to a lack of insulin production, no production at all or simply, insulin resistance. The symptoms to watch out for are as follows

Extreme thirst

Frequent ********* ? especially at night

Tiredness

Unexplained weight loss

Blurred vision

If you spot these symptoms happening to you consistently, then you must see a doctor as soon as you can. Whilst diabetes is very treatable, it is also very severe if left untreated and can lead to blindness, amputation, heart disease, kidney failure, erectile dysfunction and other problems.



By: Paul Rooney

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Most of people will execrate and fearing when look leech but not many know that leech can cure many diseases. One of them is Diabetic Mellitus disease.

leech had been used in centuries. Benefits of native hirudin from leech as anti-coagulan on cardiovaskular are very good to treating diseases. The result, in addition to smooth flow of blood, leech can also be used to reduce pain.

Many diseases can be cured with this therapy, from the Diabetic Mellitus, migraine, coronary heart until gland tiroid.

Diabetic Mellitus

Diabetic Mellitus is a disease caused by the increased sugar in body. Blood sugar in the human body itself is actually divided into three parts.

First, the blood sugar when the patient has finished eating. Sugar fasting means the patient should undergo fasting for 10-12 hours and not allowed to eat and drink sweet (if there is interference when the blood sugar exceeds 126 mg). Normal blood sugar if patient got 140 mg after the meal.

Second, when patient will be reviewed. If the value is more than 250 mg/dl, you are suffering from Diabetic Mellitus.

Third, the chronic excess of sugar in the blood called hiperglikemia.

Glucose entry into cells is assisted by insulin, which is a kind of hormone produced by the pancreas gland. On Diabetic Mellitus patients, sugar can not or difficult to entering the cells because there is only few insulin hormone produced by the pancreas gland, although the number of insulin are highly enough.

People with Diabetic Mellitus Type 1 usually experience symptoms such as waste small water often, specially in the middle of the night, can be more than seven times in the night, hungry and thirsty, body weight decreased, fatigue, blurred vision, skin infections in the bony, the increase of sugar in blood and urine. Usually affected by Diabetic Mellitus Type 1 are people under 20 years old. This phenomenon is similar to the beginning of the Diabetic Mellitus type 2 which usually occurs at the age above 40 years old. Now this frequency are higher for children and adolescents.

Usually people do not realize the coming of Diabetic Milletus when they got disease symptoms experienced, pre-Diabetic, which is the preliminary conditions of the Diabetic Mellitus type 2. This is because they have not experienced physical symptoms of Diabetic Mellitus, but fasting blood sugar in the body is above normal. Other symptoms that arise in people with Diabetic Mellitus type 2, among others, blurred vision that can caused blindness, long healed wounds, the foot felt numb, tingling or burning, fungus infection in the female reproductive area and impotence for the men.

More than 50 percent of people with Diabetic Mellitus type 2 is not diagnosed. Generally known when self-examined to doctor because of other diseases. This can lead to serious complications of Diabetic Mellitus, among others, by the lost of awareness, high blood pressure, heart disease, disturbances of vision acuity and lead to blindness, damage to the network (gangren) and need to be amputated in order to sweep the network to another.

Leech Therapy

The last way adopted by the patient who get this disease in the last stadium is amputation. With leech therapy, the patient did not have to be amputated.

Within 30 minutes, leech can **** up as much as 15 ml of blood, enough quota for half years of his life. In fact, the saliva also contain active substances that contain at least 15 elements. Examples are glair hirudin that are useful to dilute the blood. Hirudin contains penicillin.

This therapy is not with leech only, but also a useful herbal mixture to improve the network or make better stopple or dying nerves. Usually there are around the foot until the knee. The leech that has been mixed with the herbal was placed on the sick body.

The herb used is a special herbal ingredients that stimulate the pancreas and make the production of insulin gradually return to its normal. This herb is also very good for the nervous system and blood circulation in the area who fell ill by diabetic. Complaints about pins, numb, swollen (dry diabetec) will be improved in the next therapy. Wounds that can not be recover even after the therapy will be seen better. Pus liquid and bleeding in the wound decreased and dry up.

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By: Nicolas Setiono

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The biceps consist of two distinct muscles that run along the front of the upper arm to the elbow. The muscles are the biceps brachii and the brachialis. Both the muscles are responsible for the flexing the elbow. The biceps brachii is the ball like portion you see when the arm is curled towards the shoulder; the brachailis is the larger muscle and is located under the brachii. The biceps are a small muscle group but usually over trained by beginners. At the most six sets of six to eight repetitions are sufficient to build big impressive biceps. Here are three basic exercises that will help you build bulging biceps.

Barbell Curls: Take the barbell, add weight and put on the safety clamps. Hold the barbell with your hands at shoulder width. Keep your arms straight towards the floor and your elbows locked. Now begin curling the barbell towards your chest. Make sure that your elbows and back does not move. Bring the barbell to your chest to the point of full contraction. This will squeeze your biceps. Slowly begin the negative part of the barbell curl by allowing the barbell to slowly move towards the floor. Do three sets of six to eight repetition of this exercise.

Alternate Dumbbell Curls: As the name suggests this exercise is done with a dumbbell. Take a relatively heavy dumbbell. Stand with your back straight and dumbbells in both hands. Hold the dumbbells close to your body and slowly lift them, one arm at a time, curling them towards the shoulder. Squeeze your bicep at the point of contraction and slowly bring down the dumbbell. Repeat the same motion with your other arm. While you are bringing down one arm start raising the other arm. Three sets of ten repetitions are recommended for this exercise.

Concentration Curls: sit on a bench and grab a dumbbell with one hand. Keep your back straight and lean forward a bit. Rest your elbow against the inside of the thigh. With your other hand hold your other knee for balance and slowly curl the arm holding the dumbbell towards your chest. Only move your upper arm and not rest of your body. Twist the hand holding the dumbbell as it contracts. Bring the arm down and repeat the motion once again. After 10 repetition of one arm work the other arm. Ideally three sets of ten repetitions are recommended.

If you are serious about having big biceps do not over train them. Increase the weight gradually not the number of repetitions.



By: vishal

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Carbohydrates are the foundation of diets world wide. Most of your calories come from carbohydrates. Some nutrition plans “demonize” carbohydrates. They blame carbs for the obesity epidemic. Carbs have been falsely accused. While some carbs are “bad” for you, there are just as many that are good for you. Understanding carbohydrates will help you to differentiate the ones you should be eating from the ones you should not be eating.

What Are Carbohydrates

Carbohydrates are composed of sugar molecules. Sugar molecules are compounds of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. Carbohydrates are divided into two main groups: simple carbohydrates and complex carbohydrates.

Simple carbohydrates are also called sugars. They consist of one sugar molecule by itself or two sugar molecules linked together. Examples of simple carbohydrates are glucose, fructose, galactose, lactose, maltose, and sucrose. Sucrose is also known as “table sugar” and lactose is the sugar found in milk.

Complex carbohydrates are your fibers and starches. They consist of three or more sugar molecules linked together.

Energy Source

After you eat carbohydrates, your body digests and transforms them into the simple sugar glucose. All of the cells in your body are designed to use glucose for energy. There is one exception to this process. Your body cannot digest or break down dietary fibers into glucose, so these complex carbohydrates are not readily used for energy.

The simple carbohydrate glucose is an important energy source for your body. However, in excess, it can also be harmful to your body.

Insulin

When glucose enters the bloodstream, the hormone insulin is released. Insulin directs the glucose into your cells, to be used as energy. When too much glucose enters the bloodstream too rapidly, a large amount of insulin is released. It is also know as an insulin “spike”.

Those insulin spikes will increase your hunger and decrease your metabolism, leading to weight gain. Over time, those insulin spikes will also predispose you to Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes.

When trying to lose weight, the focus should not solely be on the quantity of carbohydrates eaten. The quality of the carbohydrates eaten should also be considered. Now that you know what a carbohydrate is, you can decide which carbohydrates you should be eaten.



By: Kalvin C. Chinyere, M.D.

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is it possible for a cat to have diabetes? my mom said our cat has it but my mom generally doesnt know what she is talking about.

Exercise order for your weight training routine is flexible, but there are some suggested guidelines to follow that can help you achieve better results. Your goals and other factors may influence the recommended sequence of exercises. Your daily workouts, however, should always start with a warm up.

General and Specific Warm Up

Start with 10-15 minutes of cardio activity to increase your heart rate and warm your muscles. Then perform a general, full body stretching routine. You may prefer to stretch a bit before the cardio, particularly if you feel tight or have muscle soreness, but do most of your stretching after cardio.

Just before each weight lifting exercise, do more specific warm up activities through a full range of motion in preparation for more intense work. Stretch the major muscles involved and perform light repetitions before you increase your weight load.

Exercise Order

As a general protocol, perform weight lifting exercises in the following order:

1. Free weight-bearing, whole body exercises that require the greatest coordination of multiple joint actions (e.g., Olympic lifts).

2. Free weight-bearing exercises that place stress on the whole body (e.g., squats).

3. Exercises that involve larger muscles (e.g., bench press).

4. Exercises that involve smaller muscles and single joint actions (e.g., wrist curls, machines that target specific muscles).

You may have some particular preferences in your order of exercises. For example:

*You may prefer to alternate leg, arm, and core exercises to allow one muscle group to recover while you work another muscle group regardless of muscle size or number of joints actions involved.

*If you are performing Olympic lifts, you would typically perform those lifts that require the most coordination first (e.g., power clean, snatch). However, if your goal is to improve your pull from the floor, you may perform targeted exercises for the pull phase first.

*Your goals may prompt what appears to be a departure from the recommended exercise order, but the order may truly be aligned with your purpose for training with weights.

For example, if your goal is to improve muscular endurance to speed up your “kick” at the end of a distance run, you may want to perform certain explosive or whole body exercises when you are tired in order to match the demands of a race. However, you would not likely be lifting heavy weights, so there is little chance of an injury. In any case, use good judgment–safety is always a priority!

Cool Down

After a vigorous workout, it is advisable to cool down by taking a few moments to stretch major muscle groups. You can also stretch later in the day and in the morning to help facilitate recovery.

Follow these guidelines for exercise order, but allow yourself latitude in light of your training goals, preferences, and safety considerations.



By: Denise K. Wood, Ed.D.

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