Insulin is a hormone that is central to regulating the energy and glucose metabolism in the body. Insulin causes cells in the liver, muscle, and fat tissue to take up glucose from the blood, storing it as glycogen in the liver and muscle. Insulin stops the use of fat as an energy source. When insulin [...]

The digestive system builds the dietary carbohydrates that are contained in, for example, sugar, bread and other cereal products, to glucose (dextrose) from. This is absorbed by the intestinal wall into the blood and distributed throughout the body. The pancreas produces in ?-cells of the islets of Langerhans of the insulin hormone. Insulin increases in [...]

Babies and women may be protected against developing diabetes disease through breast feeding, according to new research. This current study states that the longer women nursed, the lower their risks of . Diabetes as a medical disorder characterized by varying or persistent elevated blood sugar levels, especially due to eating, is a serious disease which [...]

There is no known reason for what causes diabetes.  There are certainly that make the likelihood of you being diagnosed with the disease higher.  One of the only risk factors that you have control over is your weight.  If you are , the single best thing you can do for your health and the prevention [...]

Type 1 Diabetes occurs when the body unable to produce any insulin. A person who has type 1 diabetes must inject insulin daily to live. Type 1 diabetes is usually diagnosed in children and young adults, but can appear at any age. Type 1 diabetes is serious, but people with can live long, healthy, happy [...]