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Karan Nair
Block 3
January 4, 2016
Importance of Diabetes
This paper informs about the disease and influences diabetic patients or doctors to find a cure.  The article states the symptoms of diabetes and how to manage it.  This paper is for people who are diagnosed with diabetes, including my mother.  Diabetes is a metabolic disease where the body is unable to make insulin, causing elevated levels of glucose in the blood.  Metabolism is how we use digested food to produce growth and energy for our body (MNT 2015).  There are two metabolic processes, anabolism and catabolism.  Anabolism is the building up of complex molecules.  Diabetes is a catabolism process which is the breaking down of complex molecules.   This long term disease can make patients dehydrated and very hungry when levels of glucose are high (MNT 2015).  Diabetes patients must take glucose tablets if sugar levels are too low or must take in carbohydrates.  Some of the symptoms of the disease include blurred vision, weight loss, hyper ventilation, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain. 
There are two categories of diabetes, type one and type two diabetes.  Type one diabetes is 10% common worldwide (MNT 2015), unfortunately my mother has it.  Type one diabetes is where insulin isn’t produced by the pancreas in the body.  People with type one diabetes can still live a simple life, as long as they take insulin injections and maintain a good diet.  I often watch my mother inject herself with insulin and maintain her blood sugar by testing blood on a monitor.   Type two diabetes occurs when the body is insulin resistant.  This category of diabetes is 90% common in patients (MNT 2015).  Although type two diabetes cannot be contained, it can be managed by exercising and losing weight.  Anyone obese or overweight has an increased chance of getting diabetes (MNT 2015).  Famous actor, Tom Hanks has type two diabetes and has a good workout regimen to contain the disease.  Diabetic patients have to watch their carbohydrate intakes with each meal.  Carbohydrates consist of small sugar molecules as well as large sugar molecules.  An example of carbohydrates is glucose.  All of our food consists of glucose (MNT 2015).  Insulin has to be in the body when we take in glucose.  The pancreas produces the hormone called insulin (MNT 2015).  With low insulin, the glucose in the carbohydrates does not get processed by the body.  Patients of type 2 diabetes can reverse the disease by excising and managing a better diet.  However, type one diabetes is not reversible.
In recent years, doctors have developed the idea of using artificial pancreas to produce insulin.  If such a mechanism were to be successfully created, it could be implanted in the body of a diabetic patient.  The artificial pancreas may lead to a possible cure for diabetes.  This informational article can influence many others to find a cure to this tragic disease.  Overall, diabetes is a long term disease without a cure. However, with further studies and experiments, it can hopefully be cured. 
           







Works Cited
Medical News Today (MNT) (2010).  Diabetes: Symptoms, Causes and Treatments.  Retrieved January 4, 2016, from http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/diabetes/

Time (2016).  5 Discoveries That Will Change The Future of Organ Transplants.  Retrieved January 5, 2016, from http://healthland.time.com/2013/06/06/5-discoveries-that-will-change-the-future-of-organ-transplants/slide/artificial-organs/

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