Can Diabetes Become Preventable?

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Diabetes: A group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar. Diabetes consists of two main types. Type one: a failure to produce insulin, so the carrier has to inject insulin into themselves. Type two: when the body’s cells fail to use insulin properly. Type two is more common of the two types and affects more than ninety percent of the United States population. Does sugar cause diabetes? “Diabetes affects more than twenty million Americans which is 2.8 percent of the population” (Diabetes). The populations generally affected by diabetes usually have had family members that had the disease, over the age of forty five, have heart disease, overweight, and don’t get enough exercise. This unwanted disease works its way into even the strongest of people who have had no symptoms. Even with a healthy lifestyle, can diabetes become preventable?

Diabetes can be caused by too little insulin, resistance to insulin, or both. “Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas to control blood sugar.” People need insulin to survive. People with high blood sugar normally have diabetes because their pancreas does not make enough insulin, their muscle, fat, and liver cells do not respond to insulin. Diabetes affects people who have an unhealthy life style and who have unhealthy weight. Type one is usually diagnosed during the early years of childhood. The exact cause for type one remains unknown. Type two usually occurs in adulthood, but young people are increasingly being diagnosed with this disease. Type two remains unbeatable, becoming more common in people in the U.S. due to increasing obesity and failure to exercise. Since type two develops slowly, people with type two experiences little to no symptoms at all. Type two diab...

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... long disease. Once a person catches this disease there is no way to get rid of it, there are only ways to prevent diabetes. The main way to prevent diabetes is to stay healthy. Even though, healthy and fit people are still at risk of getting diabetes, exercise is very important. Diabetes is a very broad subject but it all comes down to a person’s health and how well they take care of their body.

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