When it comes to diabetes, what do you associate with it? The top 10 causes of death in China, insulin, eating more, drinking more, urinating more ……
All of these are true, but diabetes is much more complicated than you might think. But don’t worry, this article will help you understand the causes, symptoms and risk groups of diabetes, and then learn about prevention methods!
This article focuses on
Causes of diabetes
Diabetes symptoms
High-risk groups for diabetes
The 4 types of diabetes
Diabetes Diagnostic Criteria
Treating Diabetes
Diabetes Complications
Preventing Diabetes
One person dies of diabetes every hour
In Taiwan, the prevalence of diabetes is 11.8% among people over 18 years of age, with about 2.27 million people suffering from diabetes nationwide. Diabetes was the fifth leading cause of death in 2016, with 42.4 deaths per 100,000 people, which is equivalent to 1 death per hour.
Why do you have diabetes?
Insulin brings glucose from the blood into the cells as energy for the cells to function.
We can imagine that the lychee is glucose, the palace maid is insulin, and the princess is the cell. The princess cannot go to the market to buy lychees by herself, so the palace maid is responsible for bringing the lychees to the princess for consumption.
There are two main factors that cause glucose to stay in the blood instead of entering the cells, making blood sugar remain high.
Inadequate supply of insulin in the body
When the insulin supply in the body is insufficient, glucose cannot be supplied to the cells through insulin and remains in the bloodstream, causing blood sugar to remain higher than normal. Type 1 diabetes is caused by the immune system attacking the pancreatic cells, resulting in insufficient insulin secretion.
Insulin resistance
Insulin resistance is the abnormal ability of cells to use insulin. Insulin is unable to metabolize glucose effectively, resulting in glucose remaining in the blood, which is not fully recovered by the kidneys and remains in the urine.
Since the cells do not get enough energy, the body thinks it should make more insulin to carry glucose, so it makes insulin day and night, but the problem is that the cells are already unresponsive to insulin, so they still do not get enough energy, and eventually the body loses weight quickly.
Ninety percent of the causes of diabetes are due to insulin resistance. The cause may be related to excessive fat, genetics, and old age.
The story goes that the princess (tissue cells) has been fed a lot of lychee (glucose) for a long time, not only have you gotten tired of eating, the body is also gradually fat, and see the palace maids and send lychee only feel sick to the stomach (insulin resistance).
The emperor only saw the lychee piled up throughout the treasury, thought the palace women (insulin) is not enough, it is difficult to take on the work of carrying lychee. Fearing that the concubine was hungry, he recruited more palace maids (insulin) to transport lychees to the palace. But the Princess does not want to eat is not want to eat, and occasionally forcibly swallow a couple of just. So even though there were many palace maids and many lychees in the palace, but the princess was losing weight. (Body tissues can not absorb energy)
