What is diabetes? I’m pretty sure that most of you at least once have heard about this disease, but probably not all of you are familiar to what it really is, how it’s caused and how it can damage human’s health. Diabetes is a chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin.Insulin itself is a hormone needed to allow glucose to enter body cells for energy production.Diabetes can be divided in two types. Type 1 diabetes is known as insulin-dependent diabetes. It happens when your immune system destroys beta cells which are needed to produce insulin. And type 2 diabetes, similar to type one, except immune system doesn’t destroy the cells that generate insulin. Type 1 diabetes has no cure but it can be regulated with proper …show more content…
Why do we need it? Medical term of sugar is glucose, which we get from food and our liver. To make it easier to understand, glucose it a fuel needed to produce an energythat helps body tissues to build up our muscles. There is number of risk factors of diabetes already known for society, such as: family history, genetics, age, geography. If any of your family members have diabetes, your risk factor is slightly higher to get both types of diabetes. Genetics – certain gene is responsible for increased risk of diabetes. Geography – according to numerous research the risk factors increase as you travel away from equator. Age – at this case type one and type two diabetes quite differ from each other. Diabetes 1 has two pick ages when it occurs. The first peak age is in children between 4 and 7years old.Second – 10 to 14 years old while diabetes 2 tends to occur in people over 45 years old. How bad can diabetes effect on human’s health? Well, the answer is pretty disappointing. It can damage your heart, blood vessels, nerves, eyes and kidneys. Also, it can complicate pregnancies for women and even lead to miscarriages. As mentioned above, diabetes can’t be cured but it can be managed, stabilized by proper