Are You A Part Of The Diabetes Pandemic?

The Center for Disease Control predicts that at least one out of every three Americans born after the year 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime. Generally diabetes is thought of as an adult disease, but the emerging reality is that children are increasingly being diagnosed with the disease. Diabetes can result in life threatening complications, but with a few key lifestyle changes, pre-diabetes and adult-onset (type 2) diabetes can be avoided.

Diabetes Fast Facts: Approximately 40% of Americans between the ages of 40 and 74 have pre-diabetes (also known as Metabolic Syndrome or Syndrome X). Studies indicate that many people diagnosed with pre-diabetes will develop diabetes within 10 years. 20.8 million Americans have diabetes. 6.2 million Americans with diabetes remain undiagnosed. Approximately 45% of the children diagnosed with diabetes have “adult onset” or type 2 diabetes. Heart disease and stroke account for about 65% of deaths in people with diabetes.

What is diabetes
Diabetes is a chronic health problem stemming from elevated blood sugar (glucose) levels. Glucose is a simple sugar that our bodies derive from the foods that we eat. The body’s metabolism of carbohydrates, proteins and fats leads directly to the production of glucose, which enters the bloodstream after a meal and is the necessary nutrient to provide energy to every cell in the body. When too much glucose is present in the bloodstream, diabetes results.

Glucose levels become too high when the glucose isn’t able to enter the cells in the bloodstream. Imagine that your bloodstream is a highway and each cell in the bloodstream is a car. Cars need gasoline (glucose) in order to run, and these cars within your bloodstream require a key to unlock the gas cap before the tank can be filled. In your body, this key is insulin. Without insulin the glucose cannot get into the cells and it is left to float freely though the bloodstream. Just as a car without gasoline will eventually fail to run, your body will begin to suffer without glucose.

Click here to continue reading about the diabetes epidemic.

Topics covered include:
What’s happened to the insulin key?
What is pre-diabetes?
What complications are associated with diabetes?
What are the symptoms of diabetes?
Am I at risk?
Should my family be tested?

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the Center For New Medicine is proud to announce that we will be moving to a brand new office building in the Irvine Spectrum sometime in early August, 2006.

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