What causes Diabetes?
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In some cases, obesity. Some cases it's just inherited. Depends on the type of Diabetes.
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Scientific evidence indicates that diets high in sugars do not cause diabetes. The most common type of diabetes occurs in overweight adults. Avoiding sugars alone will not correct overweight. To lose weight, reduce the total amount of calories from the food you eat and increase your level of physical activity.
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After you eat, the food is broken down into glucose, the simple sugar that is the main source of energy for the body's cells. But your cells cannot use glucose without insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas. Insulin helps the cells take in glucose and convert it to energy. When the pancreas does not make enough insulin or the body is unable to use the insulin that is present, the cells cannot use glucose. Excess glucose builds up in the bloodstream, setting the stage for diabetes.
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in layman's terms:  the pancreas produces insulin (among other functions), the insulin helps the body break down sugars so they can be used for energy.  With no insulin to break down sugar, the body has to break down fats and proteins for energy.  That means the sugars stay in the bloodstream causing high blood sugar.  That can lead to a whole bunch of problems.
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Diabetes is not caused by high sugar.  A person is diagnosed diabetic when you have abnormally high levels in your blood because your body can't metabolize the sugar (glucose)you do have effectively.  When you eat your body breaks down the food, and glucose is absorbed into your cells by something called insulin.  If your body is not producing enough insulin or if the insulin you have is ineffective the glucose stays in your blood stream and your cells starve.  To compensate your body breaksdown fat.  There are two types of diabetics.  Type 1 where the pancreas is not making any insulin.  Most children and young adults get this type. It said to be cause by a virus that kill insulin producing cells in the pancreas called the islet cells.  These patients must take insulin shots because if they take it in a pill the stomach would absorb the insulin and it wouldn't work.  Type 2 is where you have insulin in your body but you are either not making enough or your body isn't using it effectively.  These people can take oral diabetic medication because it is not insulin.  It helps the pancreas to produce more insulin or help the insulin get the glucose in the cell.  Diet and exercise help because your not adding glucose that your body doesn't need and helps you burn off excess and sometimes will force the the glucose into the cell.  Complications from diabetes include blindness, kidney disease, slow healing wounds and loss of feeling to extremities (also called neuropathy).  Symptoms include increased thirst, increased hunger (remember your cells are starving) and increased urination. You can also lose weight because the body is breaking down fat for energy. This mostly happens in Type 1.   I hope this helps.  Remember you can't cause diabetes by eating too much candy but if you are diabetic you can be adding to the problem if you do.  Only a blood test and your doctor can diagnosis diabetes.
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You are used to taking in sugar and carbs for energy, the only problem is the energy you get from sugar doesn't last so you have to keep eating them through out the day.  If you keep eating like this you could end up with diabetes, carbs are the leading cause now because of the sugar and glucose they produce.\n\nIf you can, and I know it's hard cause I went through this with a few people, try to cut back and eat more protein.  Protein fuels the body longer than carbs do and no risk of diabetes!
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diabetes comes to mind
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With diabetes the cells are unable to burn enough glucose for energy (because glucose cannot get into the cells).  The alternative to burning glucose for energy is to burn fatty acids for energy through beta oxidation.\n\nThe 'excessive' beta oxidation of fatty acids leads to a buildup of acetyl CoA.  Excess acetyl CoA is converted into ketones.  Excessive levels of ketones causes 'keto acidosis'.\n\nHope you find this helpful.
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Diabetes occurs when the body's insulin production is impaired in some way.  When there is insufficient insulin in the body, the complex sugars in our food cannot be broken down into glucose for use by our cells.  Ironically enough, this leads to a situation where the blood has excess sugar but the cells are starved of glucose.  Since glucose is required for many cellular functions and to provide energy, the depletion of cellular glucose ultimately leads to a feeling of fatigue.
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You are referring to a blood glucose meter, which is a device that measure the amount of sugar in the blood. Diabetes is an illness that is caused by malfunction of the pancreas. The pancreas distributes natural insulin to the blood to maintain healthy blood sugar levels.The symptom that is most easily detected is high or low (hyperglcymic or hypoglycymic) blood sugar. High blood sugar will cause you to be extremely thirsty, feel tired, and to urinate frequently. Low blood sugar will generally make you feel woozy, clammy, and unstable.\n     Diabetes is a horrible illness because it damages your body without you necessarily feeling it. Diabetes can lead to liver problems, blindness, amputation of limbs due to poor circulation, heart problems, and a whole slew of other medical problems. Get checked ASAP!!!
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Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes are at least partly inherited. Type 1 diabetes appears to be triggered by some (mainly viral) infections, or in a less common group, by stress or environmental factors (such as exposure to certain chemicals or drugs). There is a genetic element in individual susceptibility to some of these triggers which has been traced to particular HLA genotypes (i.e. genetic "self" identifiers used by the immune system). However, even in those who have inherited the susceptibility, type 1 diabetes mellitus seems to require an environmental trigger. A small proportion of people with type 1 diabetes carry a mutated gene that causes maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY).\n\nThere is a rather stronger inheritance pattern for type 2 diabetes. Those with first-degree relatives with type 2 have a much higher risk of developing type 2. Concordance among monozygotic twins is close to 100%, and 25% of those with the disease have a family history of diabetes. It is also often connected to obesity, which is found in approximately 85% of (North American) patients diagnosed with this type, so some experts believe that inheriting a tendency toward obesity also contributes.
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A diabetic is very much at risk for infection because of the vascular impairment they have in the extemities, kidneys, and eyes.  Obesity is a very common cause of diabetes. Weightloss, and excersise, along with adequate, and timley medications is needed to fight this.  Avoid systemic antibiotics unless needed. Topical antibiotics are great.  See a good Doctor regularly.  PEACE
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High blood-sugar over time can lead to complications, like neuropathy, blindness, kidney failure, and death, so it is important to control blood-sugar to prevent this from happening. Temperature has very little to do with diabetes, except that fever sometimes indicates an infection, which would be more dangerous for diabetics than everyone else.
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Anyone can get Diabetes.  People who have a family history of diabetes just have a higher risk of also developing the disease later in life than someone without family history.  Also, having a healthy diet in early life decreases chance of getting the disease.  My father is a diabetic and recently developed DKA (Diabetic ketoacidosis) which is very serious (usually results in coma or death), and can happen just by a Diabetic getting a cold.  I believe it is very important to read on DKA and on being a healthy diabetic.  It is a very serious disease and some people do not notice until it is serious or too late.
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There is a theory that type 1 diabetes gets triggered in people who already have a tendency to develop the disease. They say people with certain tissue types are more likely to become diabetic, and you inherit these tissue types from your ancestors. A viral infection of some kind has been suggested as the trigger (maybe even the flu? or a cold?). The reason this is unusual is that one would expect such a deadly disease to get less common over time, rather than more common as it is. It is proposed that the diabetic tissue type offered some advantage to people living a marginal existence (hunting for food), and that this explains why more people are diabetic in modern times. Maybe modern living is too easy? (I know, it doesn't seem too easy to me either.)
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ok..in english diabetes is the inability of cells to use sugar in the blood due to either a lack of insulin (produced by the pancreas) or the inability for a cell to transport sugar across the cell. because your cells cannot use the sugar it stays in limbo between the cells (high blood sugar)until it is filtered out through the kidneys (this causes alot of pressure and can destroy them). the high blood sugar also puts alot of pressure on the eyes that can cause blindness. another effect if left untreated is pariphial neuropathy..a big word for loss of circulation and feeling in the lower extremities (legs) this can lead to sores that cannot heal (because the cells cannot use the sugar for energy) these are things that do not happen all at once but over time. If you do not keep your sugar under control these things WILL happen...PLEASE take this disease seriously...many times the treatment is diet and exercise depending on how much insulin your pancreas does produce..if this does not work you will need to take medicine every day for the rest of your life (which is much better than the consiquences of not treating it ....amputation, blindness, kidney failure, stroke, heart attack, ect...this list continues to grow.
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As far as I know, diabetes is a physiological abnormality with no permanent "cure." It occurs because of a lack of insulin production (Type 1) or loss of sensitivity to the insulin in body receptors (Type 2). The only solutions to this is addition of insulin or increasing the sensitivity of the receptors (which is what most anti-diabetic medications do). There is a great deal of work being done, currently, on early diagnosis (through new techniques including gene modification, since it seems to be somewhat hereditary), and prevention. Once you have diabetes, there is no way that currently exists to get rid of it. However, exceptions to this rule do exist. That is, some pregnant women get diabetes during their pregnancy, but the disease resolves itself after they give birth. Furthermore, proper care and treatment can keep the diabetes mild, while without keeping it under control can lead to even worse problems.