Diabetes and the risk that comes with it Carl L. Tabb SCI/163 August 2‚ 2011 Diabetes and the risk that comes with it 23.6 million Americans have diabetes in all ages ranges says The National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse. Diabetes occurs when your body’s sugar levels are abnormally high or the body is not responding to insulin. . Insulin is produced by our body’s to regulate our blood sugar levels. In Greece the word diabetes means “to flow through” and in the Latin culture is means
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Talking to a teenager about Diabetes. Diabetes is a disease that affects how the body uses glucose‚ a sugar that is the body’s main source of fuel. Just as an iPod needs a battery‚ your body needs glucose to keep running. Here’s how it should work: 1.You eat. 2.Glucose from the food gets into your bloodstream. 3.Your pancreas makes a hormone called insulin. 4.Insulin helps the glucose get into the body’s cells. 5.Your body gets the energy it needs. The pancreas is a gland near your stomach
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Introduction Overview of Diabetes Type I What is diabetes type I Health implications of diabetes type I Physical Activity What is physical activity? Why do we need physical activity in our lives? Physical Activity and Diabetes (Epidemiology) Conclusion Bibliography Introduction For our seminar topic "physical activity and disease" we chose diabetes as the focus of our research. Since diabetes is such a complex disease with
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Essay: Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 In today’s society‚ there are a number of chronic diseases and illnesses that affect the health and wellbeing of Australian’s each year. Diabetes Mellitus along with its complications create a significant impact on Australia’s health status as a whole (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2010). Diabetes Mellitus has proven to be one of the contributing factors to other causes of morbidity and mortality‚ resulting in being named one of Australia’s National
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one’s‚ just like the weak one’s. Diabetes is recognized as being one of the world’s most common sickness running down from the family’s tree branch. Diabetes type 1‚ is an autoimmune disease which the body’s immune system attacks and destroys the beta cells in the pancreas that makes insulin; people with this disease need to inject themselves with insulin in order for them not to die‚ and they should also balance their blood sugar and maintain with a diet. Type 1 diabetes has become a very popular disease
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1 (Juvenile) Diabetes My brother‚ Kaden‚ was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes when he was 14. The average child is diagnosed with Juvenile (Type 1) Diabetes between the ages of 4 and 13. (Mayo Clinic‚ 2013) Type 1 Diabetes is a condition where the pancreas no longer produces the insulin that the body needs to survive. Insulin is a chemical made by the pancreas. Insulin helps the glucose from your blood reach your cells. When the glucose can’t reach your cells‚ it stays in your blood‚ which is very
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one sentence for each resource - water‚ food and oxygen – explain how this resource helps provide power to the human body. Oxygen- Provides energy to all parts of the body along with Glucose Food-Delivers calories and carbohydrates to the body giving it energy Water-allows for hydration and refueling of the blood in our bodies 2. What factors do you think influence how long your body can last without food‚ water or oxygen? Factors of this would include your environment‚ your physical
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Social Media Monitoring After schools on the west coast started monitoring students’ social media posts and comments; many opinions have come up. Many students feel that their privacy has been invaded and that their rights to freedom of speech have been taken away. For starters students didn’t even find out through the school that their social statues were going to be monitored by a third party company. Rumors came up around school that the school might be watching over them‚ but it wasn’t confirmed
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Diabetes Mellitus is an endocrine disorder caused by excessive high blood glucose levels (Martini pg. 377). It is characterized by glucose concentration that are high enough to overwhelm the reabsorption capabilities of the kidneys (Martini pg. 377). This is a disease of the pancreas‚ the pancreas produces the hormone insulin. The insulin helps the body to get energy from the foods we eat. When a person has diabetes the pancreas either cannot make enough insulin or is using it incorrectly. An individual
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COM 115 – Public Speaking Informative Speech Outline Topic: Diabetes Purpose: To inform my audience members about diabetes‚ the complications of diabetes‚ and what they can do to prevent diabetes from happening or how they can manage and maintain a healthy lifestyle if they are currently living with diabetes. Introduction I. Show of hands‚ how many of you know someone who has diabetes? Need/Connection II. According to the National Diabetes Report‚ 2014 from the centers for disease control and prevention
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