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Diabetes (Diabetes Mellitus) is a disease that hinders the pancreas’ ability to produce insulin. Insulin is an important natural hormone for regulating blood sugar and absolutely vital for converting the food we eat into metabolism (or energy). Consuming excessive amounts of synthetic sugars, fats, protein, carbs (converts into sugar once consumed), along with other factors will cause the pancreas to work overtime in a stress-filled frenzy that causes it to breakdown. Think of your body as a car. If you were to put anything other than gasoline in it, certain parts will get affected, eventually bringing the car to a halt. This is similar to the vital organs in your body, especially the pancreas. Insulin is the necessary fuel produced by the …show more content…

Even some animals are at risk of getting diabetes such as pigs, dogs, horses, and sheep, especially when they start consuming unnatural, processed human foods that are sugar-laden. Surprisingly, dolphins have to ability to turn on and off their diabetes to regulate insulin resistance and blood sugar for themselves. Some people are at more at risk than others because of a genetic predisposition, but an unhealthy lifestyle and uncontrolled eating habits can normally lead you to diabetes. Nobody is immune to it especially if not they are not eating properly. If you are overweight, have high blood pressure, physically inactive and exposed to stress often – you are more likely to develop it than those who avoid unhealthy lifestyles and stressful situations. Therefore, every stimulus has a beneficial or adverse effect. The laws of physics are at work here. You can prevent or delay diabetes type 2 if you eat well and do plenty of physical exercises. However, people who have relatives affected by diabetes have a higher risk of developing it (it drastically increases when a parent or a sibling suffers from it). This is because they inherit the predisposed DNA from a parent and have a genetic disposition to the now dominant diabetes genes that has mutated (maturity onset diabetes of the young, also known as MODY). This mostly happens in young people and neonatal diabetes mellitus happen in newborns. Moreover, if they are …show more content…

Top five nations on the list of countries by an incidence of type 1 diabetes ages 0 to 14 are Finland, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Norway and the United Kingdom and top five countries on the list of countries by an incidence of type 2 diabetes are Mauritius, Palau, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar. It affects about 29 million Americans every year and that number is steadily climbing. A whopping 380 million people suffer with diabetes worldwide and by 2030 it is estimated this number will double. Moreover, most who are affected are unaware they have it. Every year the numbers are increasing among adults and children who are suffering from diabetes. 20% of people under the age of 20 has it. Since diabetes typically damages the nerves in the eyes and lower limbs extremities, there are over 20,000 people who are blinded by it and about 100,000 who get their lower limbs amputated per year. About 20% of women who has diabetes end up having miscarriages. 90% of overweight people are most likely to be diabetics. Men have a slightly higher chance to get diabetes than women. Children have about 15% chance to develop diabetes if one parent was diagnosed with diabetes before the age of 50 years

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