Physical_Activity_And_Diabetes

Physical Activity And Diabetes Physical Activity and Diabetes What is diabetes' In order to understand the disease we firstly need to know about insulin. The role of insulin is to convert the food we eat into various useful substances, discarding everything that is wasteful. It is the job of insulin to see that the useful substances are put to best use for our well-being. The useful substances are used for building cells, are made ready for immediate expenditure as energy and also stored for later energy expenditure. The cause of diabetes is an absolute or lack of the hormone insulin. As a result of this lack of insulin the processes that involve converting the foods we eat into various useful substances does not occur. Insulin comes from the beta cells that are located in the pancreas. In the case of diabetes almost the entire beta cells have been destroyed. Therefore daily injections of insulin become essential to life. One of the products that are of vital importance in our bodies is glucose, a simple carbohydrate sugar that is needed by virtually every part of our body as fuel to function. Insulin controls the amount of glucose distributed to vital organs and also the exercise, insulin, disease, diabetes, diabetic, physical, patients, diseases, therefore, need, muscles, glucose, activity, useful, substances, result, physicians, increase, iddm, diabetics, carrier, body, very, since, one, non-diabetics, lack, illness, heart, good, getting, expenditure, even, energy, control, chances