7 Steps to Protect from Diabetes

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7 Steps to Protect from Diabetes

Did you know that life expectancy in the United States has declined for the first time in two decades?

This has shocked researchers who are scrambling to discover the exact cause!

Researchers are hypothesizing that one of the primary reasons for this decline is drug overdose.

However, the second significant hypothesis is pointing to Type 2 Diabetes as a major perpetrator for the decline in life expectancy!

This report will help answer three major questions surrounding diabetes.

  1. What exactly is diabetes?
  2. Why is diabetes so life threatening?
  3. How can we protect ourselves and those we love from this dreaded disease?

The Diabetes Epidemic

Diabetes is growing and increasingly prevalent in our society, actually to epidemic proportions! This is particularly true in the Western world, North American, Great Britain, and even now in developing parts of Asia.

Statistically, more than half of all adults in the U.S.A. are either prediabetes or have already been diagnosed with diabetes, according to the ADA, American Diabetes Association.

What exactly is diabetes?

The condition in which the body does not properly process food for use as energy is the official definition of diabetes according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also known as CDC.

The pancreas is an organ found near our stomach. The pancreas is responsible for releasing insulin into our bloodstream. Glucose cannot enter our body’s cells without insulin. Food that we consume is transformed by our body into sugar to be used as energy.

When someone has diabetes two situations could be true. One, either our has body failed to produce enough insulin or two, our body is unable to use the insulin that is produced. In both these scenarios our blood glucose levels are increasing.

There are three well-known types of Diabetes and a fourth recently discovered.

  1. Type 1 Diabetes
  2. Type 2 Diabetes
  3. Gestational Diabetes
  4. Type 3 Diabetes, or Brain Diabetes

For the latest research on all of these types of diabetes, please see additional reports on this website.

Why is diabetes so life threatening?