Eating With Type 2 Diabetes

Tip! The option of the individual to have medication and seek the help of a doctor. Every diabetes patients that have type1 and type 2 diabetes can take insulin daily to sustain the insulin production of the pancreas.

Everyone has heard of diabetes, and most people know what it is, too. Some of you may be aware of the fact that half of all people estimated to have diabetes have not yet been diagnosed, and that those who have been diagnosed number about 150 million worldwide. A phenomenal figure, and one which is set to rise to 300 million by the year 2030.

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But few people seem to be aware of the importance of distinguishing between the two main types of diabetes, namely type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes is basically a condition in which you have higher blood glucose levels than normal. These high blood glucose levels are responsible for many of the symptoms and complications of the illness. But the cause of these elevated blood glucose levels in type 2 diabetes is very different to that in type 1 diabetes, and this is why it is so important to differentiate between the two.

Tip! The less physically you are, the greater the risk of developing diabetes.

Ninety percent of all diabetics have type 2, which is invariably caused by insulin resistance.

Type 1 diabetes, on the other hand, is caused by a primary failure of the pancreas to produce insulin. In other words, there is no insulin! This is why people with type 1 diabetes need insulin injections.

Type 2 diabetes is caused by the body’s failure to recognise and respond to insulin as it should. So there is plenty of insulin circulating in the body, it just isn’t working. The tissues are ignoring the insulin, which is responsible for getting glucose into the cells of these tissues, and so blood glucose levels rise. Eventually the pancreas may become exhausted, and it may fail to produce any insulin at all, and this is when people with type 2 diabetes need to start using insulin injections.

Tip! For reasons not yet clear, Blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians have high rates of diabetes.

Ultimately, the end point of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes is an elevated blood glucose, which is probably why they have traditionally been treated in similar ways

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