Type II diabetes: obesity and overweight Monica Davila DeVry Type II diabetes: obesity and overweight Diabetes has become a widespread epidemic‚ primarily because of the increasing prevalence and incidence of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes is an endocrine disease in which the body has either a shortage of insulin or a decrease ability to use insulin or both. Insulin is a hormone that allows glucose to enter the cells and be converted into energy. Diabetes can be characterized as a prevailing‚ incapacitating
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The different types of diets Glucose Control - Diabetic Diet Nutrition experts say that there is no one diet for diabetes‚ but people with diabetes should follow the nutrition guidelines in the Food Pyramid‚ while paying special attention to carbohydrate intake. People with diabetes should also eat about the same amount of food at the same time each * Eat more starches such as bread‚ cereal‚ and starchy vegetables. Aim for six servings a day or more. For example‚ have cold cereal with nonfat
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diet plan meets the dietary needs of the two service uses Type-two diabetes Roger I have transformed Rogers two day diet plan to ensure he does not take in low carbohydrates as they are high in fats. I have only used complex carbohydrates to form part of Roger’s diet. I have tried to keep Rogers diet low in fat and sugar with only obtaining a small amount of fat and sugar in his two-day diet plan. In general‚ people with type 2 diabetes have a lifespan that is five to ten years less than those without
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atherogenic dyslipidemia‚elevated plasma glucose‚elevated blood pressure‚proinflammatory and prothromboticstate(1). Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in world population was estimated to be around 20-25%.patients with metabolic syndrome are twice likely to die from Cerebrovascular accident and myocardial infarction.patients with metabolic syndrome are five times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes. Insulin resistence and abdominal obesity are the two significant factors causing metabolic syndrome. A number
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Cardiovascular Risk and Its Association with Hyperlipidemia‚ Diabetes Mellitus and Smoking in Singapore P K Lim¹‚ T S S Shirley¹‚ H Y Shi¹‚ L K Lau¹ ¹School of Health Sciences (Nursing)‚ Ngee Ann Polytechnic‚ Singapore Abstract Objective: To find out the prevalence of hyperlipidemia‚ diabetes mellitus and smoking as well as to increase the awareness of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) among residents in Singapore. Design: Cross sectional study‚ quantitative study‚ convenience sampling. Setting:
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January 15‚ 2013 ACP Review 1. Name the sides of the health triangle Social‚ physical‚ and mental/emotional 2. What are risk behaviors? Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others 3. What are the steps of the decision making process? Step 1: State the situation Step 2: List the options Step 3: Weigh the possible outcomes Step 4: Consider the value Step 5: Make a decision and act on it Step 6: Evaluate the decision 4. What are the steps to achieving
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There are many strategies available to help support people with physiological disorders. For both dementia and diabetes there are multiple care strategies to help them cope with their disorders and to support them through it all. The first physiological disorder I am going to be talking about related to care strategies is dementia. As dementia is a progressive illness‚ the care strategies will have to make them feel as comfortable and safe as possible. As stated in my P5‚ the first strategy
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only by my parents‚ but also by an experience that changed my life. One experience that clearly changed the responsibility I felt in my family was when my younger brother was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. My family and I‚ not only had to research this disease‚ but had to attend classes to learn about diabetes and how to care for my brother at home. Part of our education included learning the signs and symptoms of high and low blood sugars and how to treat my brother as needed. I also learned how
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About type 2 diabetes Around 2.6 million people in the UK have been diagnosed with diabetes. About nine in 10 of these people have type 2 diabetes. It usually affects people over the age of 40‚ but can develop at any age. People of African-Caribbean or South Asian origin are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes. It usually affects them earlier in life‚ from about the age of 25. Type 2 diabetes is becoming more common‚ particularly in children. Type 2 diabetes develops when your body can’t produce
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Treatment For Type 1 Diabetes” What Is Diabetes? Type-one diabetes is a severe disease that currently affects around 34.7million people worldwide. It is an auto-immune disease where the body’s immune system attacks the beta cells in the pancreas‚ these cells are the ones who produce the hormone; insulin. Insulin controls the special carrier proteins on a cells membrane and controls the amount of glucose that passes into the cell; this is responsible for your blood sugar level. Type-one diabetes is “characterized
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