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All Beginning Is Difficult: What Is Diabetes?
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You have just returned from the doctors and have been told that you are a diabetic
now? After a seemingly endless time of being tired, thirsty etc. etc. you now gained
certitude. Maybe a friend of yours is now suffering from diabetes and you want to
approach the topic gropingly out of friendship. Perhaps you have to deliver a lecture
at school which shall deal with this metabolic disease.
Be that as it may: nowadays, diabetes is no death warrant! Although, it is not curable
yet, however, modern research achieved to enable an almost ordinary life. What is
diabetes, though? This is not an easy question to answer. If one wanted to try, one
could say: with diabetics the most important metabolic process which is the
combustion of sugar in the cells does not function properly. As a result, one has to
push on the key to this “combustion furnace” which is the insulin [insulin]. This can
be done via diet, tablets or the injection of insulin (type 2 diabetes) [type 2 diabetes]
or only with insulin (type 1 diabetes) [type 1 diabetes]. With this medication a
diabetic now has to keep the bloodsugar
level in the pink, meaning 4.5 mmole/l – 6
mmole/l, for his or her entire life to be able to live like someone not suffering from
diabetes. Alike a pendulum. However, the problem is that diabetes apparently does
not hurt. It is rather the secondary diseases [secondary diseases] which make this
illness so dangerous. Thus, the diabetic is now forced to eat and live healthily of his or
her own accord. Nutrition is the second important aspect with diabetes [food]. While
with the type 1 diabetes it is “only” important to know how many carbohydrates one
has the type 2 diabetic should keep diet. After all, there are also aids for this after
decades of research. The most important for all kinds of diabetes is the BUtable
[BUtable]
which enables the diabetic to convert each food into a measuring unit (BU).
This makes an exchange and, thus, an almost free scope while cooking possible.
There are enough and to spare diabetics in Germany. Therefore, you may realise that
there are plenty of aids. [service] So: you have not become a disabled person. See it
from the positive point of view: you are now forced to live healthily. This compulsion
can also be a luxury that many “healthy” people cannot afford. So that in some cases
it is quite possible that diabetics get older than their metabolically healthy fellow men.
You find much more information on this website, among others at [What is diabetes].
Naturally, you are very welcome to ask us your personal questions.
Translated by Maria Adamiak |
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