Informative Speech- Type 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
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Best Diabetes Medicines Diabetes is one of the leading diseases in the world today. Spreading like an epidemic‚ there are numerous reasons why a person can be affected with diabetes. Even adolescents are not being spared from the wrath of this deadly disease! However‚ every problem has a remedy‚ and diabetes is no exception. What is diabetes? Whenever we consume carbohydrates‚ present in food items like bread‚ rice and many other items‚ glucose is released into our bloodstream‚ providing
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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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1. Liver disease can occur due to diabetes & so can diabetes occur due to liver disease. The liver disease occurring due to diabetes‚ primarily type 2 diabetes is called Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD). Type 2 diabetes is metabolic condition causing elevated blood glucose levels due to either the lack of production of insulin or the body’s inability to utilize insulin efficiently (PubMed‚ n.d). NAFLD or commonly called fatty liver‚ occurs due to impairment of the liver cells to effectively
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Type 2 Diabetes in children and adolescents is an emerging epidemic within the last 20 years. Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in children and adolescents; about 151‚000 people below the age of 20 years have diabetes (CDC‚ 2009). There has been an increase in the amount of younger people‚ including teenagers that have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. According to the CDC website‚ type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents‚ although still rare‚ is being diagnosed
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and Prevention‚ in 2005‚ there were 20.6 million cases of diabetes among people aged 20 years to 44 years; according to the American Diabetes Association in 2011‚ there were 25.6 million cases of diabetes among people aged 20 years to 44 years. GENERAL PURPOSE: To persuade SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To persuade my audience to engage in walking for 30 minutes a day to prevent diabetes. CENTRAL IDEA: My audience should walk for 30 minutes a day because doing so will help them from getting diabetes and other
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Diabetes is a chronic condition associated with abnormal high levels of sugar (glucose) in the blood. This condition is due to inadequate production of insulin‚ or because of the body’s cells that do not respond properly to insulin‚ or both. Approximately 90% of all cases of diabetes worldwide are type 2 diabetes. It is a long-term metabolic disorder that is characterized by lack of sensitivity to insulin by the cells of the body. Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1)‚ a NAD+-dependent histone deacetylase which regulates
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Abstract Diabetes mellitus is a condition in which the body is unable to produce sufficient insulin (needed by the body to convert glucose energy) leading to high blood glucose levels (Fusco‚ Gonzales‚ & Yeung‚ 2015). There are two types of diabetes‚ type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes (Westerberg‚ 2013). Type 1 diabetes is caused by the bodies inability to produce insulin as opposed to type 2 diabetes which is caused by inadequate insulin production or absorption (Fusco et al.‚ 2015). Type 1 diabetics
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Homeostasis Imbalances: Diabetes Jessica Garcia Human Anatomy & Physiology I Professor Garcia March 24th‚ 2014 Homeostasis Imbalances: Diabetes Homeostasis is regulation of every system and organ in the body. How does diabetes affect homeostasis? In homeostasis‚ if the blood glucose level begins to decline‚ the pancreas releases the hormone glucagon‚ which then stimulates cells to release glucose into the blood stream. Now when the
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Effect of Diabetes on Healthcare and Nursing It can be argued that there is no greater health concern in the world‚ and in particular‚ the United States than the rapidly increasing number of people diagnosed with diabetes. Relatively recent changes to the diet and lifestyle of the general public have created a "perfect storm" of conditions that seem to perpetuate the onset of diabetes in an increasing number of people on a daily basis. According to the American Diabetes Association‚ the annual
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