Diabetes

Diabetes For thousands of years, doctors have recognized diabetes as a disease, but did not understand its’ cause. An early Egyptian medical text written around 1550 B.C. called the “Ebers Papyrus”, describes a condition of “passing too much urine”. The Greek physician Aretaeus living in the second century A.D. gave diabetes its name from a Greek word meaning “siphon” or “pass through”. Aretaeus observed that his patient’s bodies appeared to “melt down” into urine. Today, a cure still hasn’t found for this perplexing disease, but there are treatments for it. With all these treatments does diabetes still affect a person’s lifestyle' Do people realize how drastically ones life changes' Let’s first discuss what diabetes is. The food you eat is broken down by the body into glucose. Glucose is a kind of sugar that is necessary for the body to survive. Glucose travels through your blood stream to your cells. Cells use the glucose for energy. For glucose to enter the cell it needs the help of insulin. When people have diabetes, there is a problem with the insulin. Sometimes there is no insulin. This is called Type insulin, diabetes, blood, cells, sugar, glucose, low, body, type, should, much, high, need, eat, three, taken, take, sugars, pump, people, diet, day, carbohydrates, pancreas, over, needle, must, islet, called, yourself, times, program, one, meal, important