Diabetes Mellitus or simply Diabetes affects more than 15 million individuals throughout the world. It is an illness resulting from lack of insulin or dysfunctional insulin in the body. Almost 40 percent of diabetic patients do not even know that they have this illness.
It is important for us to eat healthy food and promote a healthy lifestyle so as to prevent any occurrence of this disease. According to statistics, there are over 20 million people affected with pre-diabetes. Pre-diabetes is an illness caused by high glucose levels in the blood. (more…)
The medical name of diabetes is Diabetes Mellitus. Diabetes is the colloquial name for this disease. The word ‘diabetes’ was derived from an ancient Greek word that means “to pass through.”
Diabetes is a metabolism disorder. This disease is caused by certain combined environmental and hereditary factors. The combination of these factors results to an abnormally high or low glucose or blood sugar levels. This condition is called hyperglycemia. Glucose in our blood is controlled by a complex interaction of multiple hormones in the human body. This interaction includes insulin, a hormone produced by the beta cells found in the pancreas. (more…)
