Diabetes is regarded as a killer disease if not treated. Symptoms of diabetes are showing signs after the person have suffered health issues. It is a condition of excessive glucose that is produced by the body. The pancreas could not able to generate enough insulin that controls the sugar level of the body.

When the insulin levels decrease, sugar levels of the body also increases. This situation can cause several damages to the body and eventually may lead to fatality. Glucose has the important part in the performance for the proper functions of the human body by producing the energy needed for routine activities.

Possible causes of diabetes

Type 1 diabetes - cells that are producing insulin in the pancreas were destroyed that causes insulin deficiency. This happens because the body is aggressive in destroying its own cells within the pancreas known to be the autoimmune reaction.

Autoimmune process falls out during the circulation of the antibodies that can cause beta-cells death. When it is initiated that antibodies causes beta-cells damage, the body’s reaction to Type 1 diabetes can be lesser in severity with the treatment. Trough this, the outcome is then a lack of the available insulin. While the beginning is said to be unexpected, alterations resulting for the reduced insulin availability will occur over to a longer episode of time.

There are several factors that cause type 1 diabetes and that include infections or diseases, removal of the pancreas by surgery or alcohol consumptions. This type of diabetes occurs with the children because of the genetic reasons, along with the juveniles because of stress or hereditary reasoning. Persons that are suffering from type 1 diabetes were obliged in taking insulin every day for them to survive.

Type 2 diabetes - with this condition, the pancreas produces insulin. However, the cells that are receiving insulin fail to stimulate it and that it is known to be the insulin resistance. In response with this reaction, more insulin had been produced, and the over production weakens the insulin-manufacturing cells of the pancreas.

Diabetes with type 2 commonly affects the adults. The possible causes of this diabetes type include aging, physically inactive and obesity. This condition of diabetes does not depend on the insulin treatment. However, it requires a proper diet, exercises and oral medication, to be able to keep you under the long term control.

Gestational diabetes - is a type of diabetes that usually happens for the period of pregnancy and stops after the child birth. Pregnant mother who has gestational diabetes have lots of insulin into their body, but certain hormones that are produced for the duration of pregnancy blocks the utilization of insulin, in that way, it creates an imbalanced sugar levels.

Juvenile Diabetes - it is a diabetes condition from which the pancreas generates too little or zero insulin in the child. The causes of these juveniles were generally hereditary.

Heredity- it is one of the major causes of diabetes. When both parents are suffering from Type 2 diabetes, it is possible that almost every child they have will inherit diabetes. When both of the parents have Type 1 diabetes, less than 20% of the children they have will develop the Type 1 diabetes.

One reason behind the explosion of type 2 diabetes is the development of unnatural or artificial sweeteners.

Modern processed foods contain enormous amounts of high-fructose corn syrup. Even foods that are not ordinarily sweetened are made with this cheap, abundant, and highly addictive sugar, because it helps enable almost any food to look nice on the supermarket shelf, provided it is also laced with stabilizers and preservatives. Some of the findings of medical research concerning this highly processed, chemically altered sweetener are:

• women who drink two fructose-sweetened cola drinks every day are twice as likely to develop kidney disease
• soft drinks containing this sweetener have been linked to fatty liver disease
• high-fructose corn syrup causes your body to make less leptin, the hormone that lets your brain know when fat cells are full and further eating is not needed.

But the most insidious effect of high-fructose corn syrup is simply that it makes sweet junk food cheap and universally available… resulting in the chief risk factor for type 2 diabetes, obesity. In an era when nobody bought a pie or a candy bar because the sugar in them crystallized while the product sat on the shelf, sweets had to be made at home. That required work, and sweets were something special. Now sweets are available 24/7 everywhere, and the only thing that is special about them is that they make people sick.

This state of affairs probably won’t last forever. There may be a point at which the production of high-fructose corn syrup simply breaks down. As food expert Michael Pollan told the Washington Post in 2008, high-fructose corn syrup “may be cheap in the supermarket, but in the environment it could not be more expensive”.

“Most corn is grown as a monoculture, meaning that the land is used solely for corn, not rotated among crops. This maximizes yields, but at a price. It depletes soil nutrients, requiring more pesticides and fertilizer while weakening topsoil.”

He adds: “Then there is the atrazine in the water in farm country… a nasty herbicide that, at concentrations as little as 0.1 part per billion, has been shown to turn male frogs into hermaphrodites.”

Anything that turns males into hermaphrodites will eventually be taken out of food.

Make sure you read all food labels. High-fructose corn syrup can even be found in products which aren’t sweet, products such as sliced bread and processed meats, eg. ham and sausage. Soft drinks, sports drinks, lemonade, iced teas, and almost every sweet drink you can think of contains high-fructose corn syrup. So to avoid high-fructose corn syrup or even other sweeteners:

• limit processed and prepackaged foods
• eat fresh fruit rather than fruit juices or fruit flavored drinks
• drink less soda
• chose fruit canned in its own juice instead of heavy syrup

Avoiding high-fructose corn syrup and keeping your weight under control is one of the best things you can do to improve your health and avoid type 2 diabetes.

Your blood sugar levels are not as low as you want them to be? Your HbA1c is registering over 7% and you want it to be less than 6.5%? If you are not making progress in the right direction, let’s start at the beginning and check off these points.

Your weight… weight loss is the strongest predictor of a fall in both your blood sugar levels and your HbA1c level.

What if You Are Eating Too Much?

Do you routinely eat more than you really need to at mealtimes? Don’t eat extra food now because you don’t want to stop to eat later… an insulin resistant body likes to eat often. By trying to change this you will find it backfire on you and your body will lay down those extra calories or kilojoules as fat! If you eat more carbs than your insulin resistant body can handle at one time, you will start the roller coaster of high and low blood sugar levels.

Are you eating too much fat? Fat has more calories or kilojoules for its weight than any other nutrient. Every tablespoon of fat gives over 100 calories (418 kj). Do you know one tablespoon of butter has more calories than the bread that you spread it on? Even changing from a full-fat salad dressing to a light dressing can save you 100 calories.

Not eating enough fiber. Fiber is one of the diabetic’s best friends. Fiber can help lower blood sugar levels, blood cholesterol levels, and weight, as well as help you feel full with fewer calories and fewer carbohydrates.

Are you finding you are having mid-afternoon or early evening cravings? This is the most common time for people to crave foods… especially sweets. A major trigger is low blood sugar. This is usually caused by lack of food as a result of going too long between meals or even following a very low calorie (kilojoule) diet.

Are You Stressed?

Check your stress level… stress raises your blood sugar levels. Job worries, financial difficulties, relationship problems or even stress in middle age, does not help during these times. Whatever the cause, stress will help create a blood sugar spike. People with diabetes type 2 who experience chronic or intense stress, find it harder to keep their blood sugar down. Don’t be a hero, talk to someone. Don’t keep your fears bottled up inside… if you don’t have a confidante talk to a counselor or psychologist.

Are You Exercising?

If you are sedentary now is the time to bring some physical activity onto the scene. The average person’s diet is becoming richer in calories (kilojoules), yet no exercise is done to burn off those extra calories. Regular exercise helps to keep you in a healthy weight range and improves your body’s sensitivity to insulin. Exercise really is medicine to the type 2 diabetic… it reduces your blood sugar levels.

How Much Sleep Do You Get?

If you don’t get enough sleep one night, make sure you get it the next night. Making sure you pay your sleep debt helps to control your blood sugar levels.

If you find you are unable to lower your blood sugar levels in spite of your best efforts, your health care provider may need to adjust your medications.