What is Diabetes? Diabetes can be prevented!
Diabetes means that your blood sugar, or glucose, is too high. Glucose comes from the food that you eat and is made in your liver and muscles. Your blood always has some glucose in it because your body needs glucose for energy. But too much glucose in the blood isn’t good for your health.
The pancreas controls the amount of glucose in the blood. The pancreas makes insulin which helps get glucose from food into your cells.
Cells take the glucose and make it into energy you need for life. In a person with diabetes, the pancreas stops making insulin or the body doesn’t make insulin very well. Sp glucose builds up in the blood and can’t get into your cells. Your blood glucose gets too high and diabetes can then damage your body.
Diabetes warning signs:
Excessive thirst
Increased appetite
Increasing urination
Visible weight loss
Blurred vision
Fatigue
Recurrent skin infections, and
Slow healing
How do you prevent Diabetes?
The key to preventing diabetes is eating healthy food, getting exercise daily, and staying at a healthy weight.
Mzukona Mantshontsho is the founder of Nyakaza Media Solutions. Nyakaza Media Solutions is an organisation that was established to help community organisations, business entities, and schools to research, write, document, report, analyse, edit, publish newsletters or bulletins in hard-copy, on-line and maintain websites with the relevant content as per the editorial policy of that organisation, school or entity.
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