Controlling Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes occurs when insulin secreted by the pancreas is deficient. The insulin cannot, therefore, adequately carry or escort sugar from blood into body cells, where it normally combines with oxygen to provide energy that keeps the body alive and makes it function properly. Without sugar inside the cells, the body turns to fat for energy, as an alternative. As fat burns to provide energy, you begin to lose weight. The energy from fat is, however, not enough to satisfy your body needs and so you feel weak. You feel hungry most of the time but if you eat starchy food because you are hungry and starved, you end up increasing your blood sugar while not getting the needed strength, since glucose from starch is not being taken up into your cells. Rather, it will be lost in urine.
Since sugar remains in blood, it fails to perform its cellular functions and ends up damaging blood vessels, instead, and plaque begins to build up. This will raise blood pressure and increase your chances of a heart attack and stroke. The eyes, nerves and and kidney may become damaged. You urinate more frequently to try to eliminate sugar from your blood. This makes you lose water and become dehydrated. You become thirsty and drink water, all too often.
As your body breaks down fat, in the place of sugar, to provide energy for your cells, a lot of acid is produced in your body. Some of it goes into blood and gets carried into the brain and this can lead to a diabetic coma, as your brain fails to function. This is a medical emergency, which is treated by neutralizing the acid with sodium bicarbonate so that the brain can function well, again. This coma is different and managed differently from another one which results from a rapid drop in blood sugar that occasionally occurs when a diabetic drug, which helps to drive sugar from blood into cells, is administered to a patient. The hypoglycemic shock, as this one is commonly called, is treated by administering sugar and thiamine(vitamin B) to raise the brain sugar levels and stimulate the breakdown of the sugar for energy so that brain cells can regain function, once again.
Increased body weight increases fatty acids in blood and this is the cause of type 2 diabetes. To prevent type 2 diabetes, it is, therefore, prudent to keep an ideal body weight by exercising and eating right.
Maintaining the right blood sugar levels is the way to manage diabetes and prevent its complications. One proven way of achieving this is through the consumption of vegetables and fruits such as carrots, oranges and apples. They contain pectin, which is a soluble fiber, that is absorbed into blood just like the food we eat. During absorption, pectin competes and slows down the absorption of sugar. So, although fruits contain sugar, they will not raise blood sugar because pectin spreads out sugar absorption over a longer period of time and when much the same quantity of food is eaten it does not result in high blood sugar and you retain your energy level, since sugar will not be lost in urine. Although insulin still remains deficient it will be able to transfer low but prolonged blood sugar much better than high overshoot after an ordinary meal without pectin. You will have succeeded to not only regain your energy level but you are able to prevent diabetic coma as fat ceases being your energy source. Fruits and vegetables also have high amounts of anti-oxidants, like vitamin C, which stimulate cells to function properly. Beans and groundnuts(peanuts) are rich in fiber, including pectin, which slows down the absorption of sugar and prevents blood sugar overshoot and urine loss.
Exercise in a diabetic must be moderate, such as walking. Well tailored exercise increases blood circulation, promotes the burning of glucose and reduces blood sugar by sucking up sugar from blood into cells to support exercise needs. However stressful exercise should be avoided because it increases blood sugar through the release of sugar from body stores, an attempt by the body to meet its increased energy needs in times of stress. Worries and anxieties should, therefore, be well controlled to prevent overshoot of blood sugar. Most diabetic comas occur during stressful periods such as following an attack of malaria or during sudden outbursts of anxiety, worries and anger.
There are drugs which help to release insulin from the pancreas and others which improve on the transfer of glucose from blood into the cells. These help provide enough energy for the body and stabilize blood sugar levels within the acceptable limits(range), preventing the complications of diabetes.
Dr Oliver V Birnso
Since sugar remains in blood, it fails to perform its cellular functions and ends up damaging blood vessels, instead, and plaque begins to build up. This will raise blood pressure and increase your chances of a heart attack and stroke. The eyes, nerves and and kidney may become damaged. You urinate more frequently to try to eliminate sugar from your blood. This makes you lose water and become dehydrated. You become thirsty and drink water, all too often.
As your body breaks down fat, in the place of sugar, to provide energy for your cells, a lot of acid is produced in your body. Some of it goes into blood and gets carried into the brain and this can lead to a diabetic coma, as your brain fails to function. This is a medical emergency, which is treated by neutralizing the acid with sodium bicarbonate so that the brain can function well, again. This coma is different and managed differently from another one which results from a rapid drop in blood sugar that occasionally occurs when a diabetic drug, which helps to drive sugar from blood into cells, is administered to a patient. The hypoglycemic shock, as this one is commonly called, is treated by administering sugar and thiamine(vitamin B) to raise the brain sugar levels and stimulate the breakdown of the sugar for energy so that brain cells can regain function, once again.
Increased body weight increases fatty acids in blood and this is the cause of type 2 diabetes. To prevent type 2 diabetes, it is, therefore, prudent to keep an ideal body weight by exercising and eating right.
Maintaining the right blood sugar levels is the way to manage diabetes and prevent its complications. One proven way of achieving this is through the consumption of vegetables and fruits such as carrots, oranges and apples. They contain pectin, which is a soluble fiber, that is absorbed into blood just like the food we eat. During absorption, pectin competes and slows down the absorption of sugar. So, although fruits contain sugar, they will not raise blood sugar because pectin spreads out sugar absorption over a longer period of time and when much the same quantity of food is eaten it does not result in high blood sugar and you retain your energy level, since sugar will not be lost in urine. Although insulin still remains deficient it will be able to transfer low but prolonged blood sugar much better than high overshoot after an ordinary meal without pectin. You will have succeeded to not only regain your energy level but you are able to prevent diabetic coma as fat ceases being your energy source. Fruits and vegetables also have high amounts of anti-oxidants, like vitamin C, which stimulate cells to function properly. Beans and groundnuts(peanuts) are rich in fiber, including pectin, which slows down the absorption of sugar and prevents blood sugar overshoot and urine loss.
Exercise in a diabetic must be moderate, such as walking. Well tailored exercise increases blood circulation, promotes the burning of glucose and reduces blood sugar by sucking up sugar from blood into cells to support exercise needs. However stressful exercise should be avoided because it increases blood sugar through the release of sugar from body stores, an attempt by the body to meet its increased energy needs in times of stress. Worries and anxieties should, therefore, be well controlled to prevent overshoot of blood sugar. Most diabetic comas occur during stressful periods such as following an attack of malaria or during sudden outbursts of anxiety, worries and anger.
There are drugs which help to release insulin from the pancreas and others which improve on the transfer of glucose from blood into the cells. These help provide enough energy for the body and stabilize blood sugar levels within the acceptable limits(range), preventing the complications of diabetes.
Dr Oliver V Birnso
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