What is a blood glucose diary?

Blood Glucose DiaryWhat is a blood glucose diary? Diabetic log diary is charts used by diabetics to record each test manufactures little or none of the chemical known as insulin. The chemical/hormone Insulin is used to change the glucose (sugar) in the blood into useable cell fuel. The body’s cells can take in the sugar after the insulin as edited it. But when there’s not enough insulin hormone the glucose levels rise to dangerous levels. At high blood sugar levels the body suffers damage because of the excess sugar.

The damage caused by the hypoglycemia is severe heart disease and damage, nerve damage, eye damage, and kidney damage and failure. These effects of severe high blood sugar mean that those who have diabetes must constantly monitor their blood sugar levels so that they stay within safe limits.

Blood glucose diary is very important. They allow your diabetes doctor to monitor your sugar levels an sugar fluctuations and hone your diets and lifestyles to better control your diabetes.

1. The first use of keeping diabetic log diaryss is to monitor your blood sugars changes over time. You can also see what you were doing at that point of the day and how it affected your blood sugar.

2. Your diabetic doctor can see what your blood sugar levels for the day were and what you were doing at that time. This allows him to tell you what you should continue to do and what you should stop doing for your diabetes.

3. You can set a diabetic goal and try to keep to that goal improving your control over your diabetes. The American Diabetes Association supports the use of diabetic log books as they believe they are very helpful. So talk to your doctor about starting a blood glucose diary.

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What is a normal range blood sugar level?

Normal Range Blood Sugar LevelsWhat is a normal range blood sugar  level? A diabetic must know their blood sugar range if they’re going to live a long healthy diabetic life. Diabetes is a very serious disease for all people’s ages. Diabetes is a very serious disease that is currently taking over our nation and the entire world by storm.

Today’s sugar filled junk foods and the ability for diabetics to live longer lives and reproduce is only fuel to the already massive diabetic firestorm. Diabetes is a serious disease where the person’s body is failing to get the required amounts of chemical called insulin. This absolutely necessary chemical (also a a vital hormone) called insulin is produced by the pancreas. For some unknown reasons to medicine the pancreas organ will stop or slow in production of this vital chemical.

This chemical hormone is used by the body to transform the blood sugar (glucose) in the bloodstream into fuel that the cells are able to use for fuel. Without the proper amounts of this necessary sugar bonding chemical the blood glucose levels in the blood begin to rise to high levels. Once they reach a certain high sugar level the body begins to suffer major cell damage.

The serious cell damage most commonly associated with high blood sugar levels is nervous cell damage, heart cell damage, kidney cell damage, and eye cell damage. But this can all be avoided if the diabetic patient can lower their high blood sugar level and keep it at that lower sugar level. So what is a normal range blood sugar level?

A normal range of blood sugar level is anywhere between 80 mg/dl to 140mg/dl. The amounts that diabetics have are way above the normal 140 mg/dl. At this point damage is suffered to the body so it is key that the diabetic can control their high blood sugar level. So now you know a normal range blood sugar level?

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What are symptoms of a diabetic?

Symptoms of a DiabeticWhat are symptoms of a diabetic? Diabetes is a very serious non-communicable disease for all peoples ages including kids. Diabetes is a very serious non-communicable disease that is currently taking over the nation and the entire world. Today’s sugar filled foods and sweet desserts and the ability for diabetics to live longer lives and reproduce is only gasoline fuel to the already massive firestorm.

Diabetes is a non-communicable permanent disease where the person’s body is failing to get the required amounts of a vital chemical called insulin. This absolutely necessary chemical/hormone called insulin is produced by the pancreas organ. For some unknown medical reasons the pancreas organ will stop or slow in construction of this vital chemical/hormone. This chemical/hormone is used by the body’s systems to transform the blood sugar (glucose) in the blood into fuel that the cells are able to use. Without the proper amounts of this necessary sugar converting chemical/hormone the blood glucose levels in the blood stream begin to rise to extremely high levels.

Once they reach a certain high blood sugar level the body systems begins to suffer cell damage. The major cell damage most commonly associated with high blood sugar levels is nerve cell damage, heart damage, kidney damage, and eye damage. But this can all be avoided if the diabetic patient can lower their high blood sugar level and keep it at that lower blood sugar level. So what are symptoms of a diabetic?

There are a few symptoms of a diabetic? Over Excessive thirst, excessive urination, hunger, and excessive weight loss are all symptoms. The diabetic symptoms happen as the body tries to clean its self of the excessive sugar and feed the slowly starving cells. The cleaning results in excessive urination which results in thirst, and the hunger results in weight loss. These diabetic symptoms should be noticed and reported to a diabetic doctor soon. So now you know what some symptoms of a diabetic are.

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What is an average blood sugar?

Average Blood SugarWhat is a average blood sugar? A diabetic patient must know their average sugar range if they’re going to live a long healthy diabetic life. Diabetes is a very serious permanent condition for people of all ages. Diabetes condition is a very serious condition that is currently taking over our nation and the entire world by storm.

Today’s sugar filled junk foods and desserts and the ability for diabetics to live longer lives and reproduce is only fuel to the already massive diabetic epidemic. Diabetes is a serious condition where the person’s body is not getting the required amounts of hormone called insulin. This absolutely necessary chemical/hormone (also a vital hormone) known as insulin is produced by the pancreas organ. For some unknown reasons to modern medicine the pancreas organ will stop or slow in the mass production of this vital chemical.

This chemical hormone is used by the body systems to transform the blood sugar molecules (glucose) in the bloodstream into a fuel that the cells are able to use for cell fuel. Without the proper amounts of this absolutely necessary sugar bonding component the blood glucose levels in the blood begin to rise to high levels. Once they reach a certain high blood sugar level the diabetics’ body begins to suffer major cell damage. The serious cell damage mostly happens with the high blood sugar levels is nervous system cell damage, heart cell damage, kidney cell damage, and eye cell damages. But this can all be avoided if the diabetic patient can change their high blood sugar level and keep it at that lower sugar area. So what is a average blood sugar?

So what is an average blood sugar level?

 It is anywhere between 80 mg/dl to 140mg/dl. The blood sugar amounts that diabetics have are way above the normal 140 mg/dl. At this point damage is permanently suffered to the body so it is necessary that the diabetic can control their high blood sugar levels. So now you know an average blood sugar level is.

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What is the Cause of Diabetes?

What is the Cause of Diabetes?
What is the Cause of Diabetes?

In order to understand what is the cause of diabetes, it’s important to get a few of the basic facts about the disease first.

Diabetes is a non-communicable disease  that affects people of all ages from kids all the way through to seniors. Diabetes is a very serious, not only because of the health risks associated with it, but also that it is affecting more and more people every year, not just in North America, but  across the entire world.

Diabetes is the Lack of, or Inefficiency of Insulin in Your Body

The way that our body becomes energized is by having the food we eat be broken down into glucose so that it can enter into the blood stream and be delivered to the cells that need energy.

For the cells to use this energy they need insulin, produced by the pancreas.  Without the insulin, it’s like the cells are starving for energy because they can’t access the glucose in the bloodstream.

This is really bad, and another way to think about how bad this can be is to think about how you breathe.  Your body needs oxygen to survive, and the lungs are the organs that can change the oxygen in the air into oxygen that is usable for your body.

If you think about the way that lungs convert the oxygen so that it can be used, insulin is doing the same thing with the energy being delivered to the cells.   Without the insulin, the cells starve, just like without our lungs we would not be able to breathe.

Without the proper amounts of this necessary sugar changing chemical/hormone the blood, glucose levels in the blood stream begin to rise to extremely high levels. Once they reach a certain level the body systems begins to suffer cell damage.

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The major cell damage most commonly associated with high blood sugar levels are:

  • Severe nerve cell damage
  • Heart damage
  • Kidney damage
  • Severe eye damage

This can be avoided if the diabetic can regulate and keep their blood sugar amounts in a normal range for their body that is neither too high or too low.

The next important thing to understand is that there are two different types of diabetes:

  • type 1 diabetes
  • type 2 diabetes

The Cause of Type 1 Diabetes

Unfortunately, there is nothing that someone can do about type 1 diabetes, at least not with the current medical expertise that we have today.  Type 1 diabetes is caused because your body has ceased to produce insulin.

For one reason or another your body has attacked the pancreas and it is no longer able to function correctly.  This type of diabetes can affect anyone and is not dependent on lifestyle.

Type 1 diabetes usually occurs in people under the age of 40, and rarely affects those over 40, and those affected will need to take insulin to regulate their blood sugar level for the rest of their lives.

The Cause of Type 2 Diabetes

Luckily, type 2 diabetes is preventable and in some cases reversible.  The reason that we can affect this type of diabetes is that it is largely caused by poor diet, and lack of exercise.

Genetics can come into play here, so if someone in your family has developed type 2 diabetes then you may be at a higher risk for developing it yourself, so you should take care to live a healthy lifestyle so that you won’t have to worry about diabetes.

More good news: 85% of people with diabetes have type 2 diabetes.  What this means is that it is within your power to resist the development of diabetes.

Remember that the main causes of type 2 diabetes are:

  • Lack of exercise
  • Poor diet
  • Excess body fat for a prolonged period of time

The Major Causes of Diabetes

  • The amount of insulin being produced by the body is not enough
  • The cells have developed a resistance to the insulin and it is not working as effectively as it once did.

The problem with insulin resistance is that what used to work fine for the body, slowly becomes ineffective over time.  With this in mind it’s important to realize that your general health and fitness level is very important, and if you want to avoid problems like diabetes later in life, that you should be making good health choices today.

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