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    Obesity Carries Greater Risk for Diabetes By Bobby Castro Oct 25, 2011 One of the major causes of diabetes has been obesity. Obesity is the condition wherein the lifestyle of the individual renders the body overweight leading to many health issues. One of these health issues is the development of diabetes in the individual. Diabetes is the condition wherein the body develops a resistance to or produces low levels of insulin. The hormone insulin is important to allow the body to metabolize blood

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    Perla Castillo NUTR 417 The use of ketogenic diet for type II diabetics Energy is essential for survival, and the human body is remarkably efficient at utilizing different energy sources. The body can obtain energy from glucose when consuming a normal carbohydrate diet, or from ketone bodies when consuming a ketogenic diet. This is an alternative source of energy that the body will use when 5% (or less) of total kcal come from carbohydrates. Metabolic processes differ depending on the energy

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    Diabetic ketoacidosis is a serious complication of diabetes mellitus that is characterized by an ion gap metabolic acidosis, hyperglycemia, and ketonemia. For diagnosis of diabetic ketoacidosis to be made, a patient's plasma glucose concentration must be above 250 mg/dL, with a pH of less than 7.30, and a bicarbonate level of 18 mEq/L or less. Epidemiology: While diabetic ketoacidosis is typically associated with Type I diabetes mellitus, a subgroup of people with Type II DM may also be vulnerable

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    There was no effect of HFFr diet and no additive effect of metformin and CaD on serum HDL-C and CTRP3 (Table 3). CTRP3 is a novel adipokine and a member of CTRP superfamily, which has been shown to reduce glucose levels, hepatic steatosis and gluconeogenesis, by its regulatory

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    Question 4 Differentiate the pathophysiology of Diabetes Type One and Diabetes Type Two. (5 marks) Type 1 Diabetes mellitus is characterised by the genetic or autoimmune destruction or deficiency of the pancreatic b cells that produce insulin and usually progresses rapidly that it is often diagnosed in childhood. Individuals diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, present with signs of pancreatic b-cell destruction prior to diagnosis (Armstrong 2014). Type 1 diabetics do not produce insulin. Having no insulin

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    in blood glucose due to the increase in renal glucose excretion. (Joffe, 2013) It offers extra glucose control by allowing the body to have increased insulin sensitivity and an increase in uptake of glucose in the muscle cells, also decreased gluconeogenesis and improved first phase insulin release from the beta cells. (Joffe,

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    LABORATORY REPORT Activity: Blood Glucose Regulation Name: Jazmine Ricine Parham Instructor: Professor Deno Date: 12.03.2014 Predictions Plasma glucose levels will be highest immediately after the meal (0 hr) Plasma ketone levels will be highest 1-3 hours after the meal Plasma insulin levels will be highest immediately after the meal (0 hr) Plasma glucagon levels will be highest before the meal (fasting) Materials and Methods Dependent Variable plasma levels of glucose, ketones, insulin

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    Compare and contrast negative and positive feedback, giving examples of each. Explain why negative rather than positive feedback is required for maintenance of homeostasis. In order to maintain a constant internal environment, organisms require mechanisms for maintaining internal stability in spite of intrinsic or extrinsic changes. Negative feedback is a corrective mechanism that opposes a variation from normal limits. It is required for the maintenance of homeostasis in the body. However, positive

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    hormone released by alpha cells of the islets of Langerhans is released when glucose decreases. This action stimulates the liver to release stored glucose (glycogenolysis). Prolonged starvation leads to production of glucose from other sources (gluconeogenesis) such as amino acids, e.t.c. Hinkle and Cheever writing in textbook of Medical Surgical Nursing say that in order to overcome Insulin resistance and to prevent the build up of glucose in the blood, increased amounts of Insulin must be secreted

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    to be used for later energy production. Glucagon is stimulated by low blood glucose levels, once it is stimulated it can go through glycogenolysis which will convert the glycogen back into glucose to help level out the blood glucose levels. Gluconeogenesis is performed when there is no more glycogen to create glucose or any other carbohydrates. Therefore the body must create glucose

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