...unhealthy eating like heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer are some of the causes of death that can be prevented ("Overweight and Obesity", 2014). According to Centers for Disease Control and prevention “More than one-third of U.S. adults (34.9%) are obese”. How can a healthy eating plan help? A Healthy eating plan can help stop the rise in people becoming overweight or obese by following a diabetic diet even if the individual is not diabetic. Knowing what the diet consists of and following it can help promote a healthier weight. Improving a diet can help a person ward off certain types of diseases and knowing why it is hard to stick to a specific diet can help a person’s chances at succeeding. Although obesity and its related diseases are on a rise, healthy eating plans like a diabetic diet can contribute to a healthier lifestyle. What is a diabetic diet and why is it recommended even if people do not have diabetes? A diabetic diet is about eating food that is naturally nutrient packed and low in fats and calories ("Diabetes Diet: Create Your Healthy-Eating Plan", 2013). This diet consists of healthy carbohydrates, High fiber foods, low sugar, moderate protein, and “good” fats. Healthy carbohydrates consist of eating fruit, vegetables, whole grain, and legumes (which are also high in fiber). Eating sugar and “bad” carbohydrates like white bread and pasta raise sugar levels in a person’s blood ("Diabetes Diet: Create Your Healthy-Eating Plan", 2013)...
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...been getting fast food. That is fine every now and then but, not every day. Eating fast food every day is very bad the body. Fast food may be cheaper but, a home cooked meal is healthier for you. Too much fast food can lead to health problems, a higher calorie intake, and weight gain. Eating fast food every single day is not a good thing. There are many reasons to not eat fast food every day. One is too much fast food will lead to health problems. It is very bad for your body secondly. Fast food as of now is all over the world in most of the countries in the world. With so many fast food chains and restaurants it is no wonder why people are having so many health problems and becoming obese. If you have time to go through a drive thru window, than you can make a home cooked meal. When you go to a fast food place you are not just paying for the food. If you think about it, you are paying for the supplies and the employees working there too. Fast food meal prices are absolutely ridiculous. It would be better for you and your wallet to eat a healthy, home cooked meal at home. With eating too much fast food there are a lot of health problems. The health problems that go along with eating too much fast food are endless. You can get diabetes, cancer, arthritis, reproductive complications and even premature death. Your arteries can also clog and lead to heart attacks as well. Once you have consumed so much fast food all the fat from the food goes to your arteries. Once the arteries...
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...The Adverse Effect Fructose Corn Syrup Has On Diabetes Bethel University May 8, 2012 Expository Writing Facilitator- Ms. Sarthou Abstract High fructose corn syrup is causing many problems in the United States. The main problems are obesity which causes type two diabetes. There are also many other diseases that branch off from these two main diseases, like liver and heart disease. In this paper, exploring the reason why high fructose corn syrup is becoming such a huge problem in the United States. The argument of this paper is that high fructose syrup has an adverse effect on diabetes. When the producers of high fructose syrup saw that it is more cost effective than other sugars, other companies started to use high fructose corn syrup in their products. High fructose corn syrup is a sugar made of fifty-five percent fructose and forty-five percent glucose. Compared to normal table sugar, which is fifty percent fructose and fifty percent glucose, it doesn’t seem like much. Yet the fructose in high fructose corn syrup is less attached from normal sugar. This fructose that is free from the glucose part is more harmful to the body. It was first introduced in 1970 but it hasn’t been actively used until the late 1900s. Yet because we started to use high fructose corn syrup, it is now causing a lot of problems. It has many negative side effects after consumption, and most of the consuming is done in the United States. Two of the main problems caused by high fructose corn...
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...What You Need To Know About Type 1 Diabetes 1 What You Need To Know About Type 1 Diabetes DeeBra Richardson ITT – Technical Institute EN 1320: Composition 1 Prof. Julia Davis December 1, 2014 What You Need To Know About Type 1 Diabetes 2 My report is on type 1 diabetes. How people get type 1 diabetes and how to deal with it. It tells about the different type of insulin people with diabetes used. It take about what complications, it can cause. It also tells about the different body parts it can affect. Talk a little about depression and how type 1 diabetes can cause depression. Also talk about the difference sing or symptoms to watch out for. So you know what to look like with getting type 1 diabetes and when you have high and low sugar. Other symptoms or sing it gives you is depression sings. This is why my topic is call “What You Need to Know about Type 1 Diabetes” What You Need To Know About Type 1 Diabetes 3 What causes type 1 Diabetes? It seems that no one is really sure what cause diabetes. They do say that a virus infect the body. When the virus infect the body the person immune system starts to produce antibodies and that fight the infection. The cells that are in charge of making the antibodies are called the T – Cells. The T- Cells also fight the virus. There is also a cell call the beta...
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...Diabetes Mellitus The term "diabetes mellitus" refers to a group of diseases that affect how your body uses blood glucose, commonly called blood sugar. Glucose is vital to your health because it's an important source of energy for the cells that make up your muscles and tissues. It's your brain's main source of fuel. (Turner, 2010, p.18) of you have diabetes, no matter what type, it means you have too much glucose in your blood, although the reasons may differ. Too much glucose can lead to serious health problems. Chronic diabetes conditions include type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes. Potentially reversible diabetes conditions include prediabetes — when your blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be classified as diabetes — and gestational diabetes, which occurs during pregnancy. (Turner, 2010, p. 22) Diabetes symptoms vary depending on how high your blood sugar is elevated. Some people, especially those with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, may not experience symptoms initially. In type 1 diabetes, however, symptoms tend to come on quickly and be more severe. Some of the signs and symptoms of type 1 and type 2 diabetes include: Increased thirst Frequent urination Extreme hunger Unexplained weight loss Presence of ketones in the urine (ketones are a byproduct of the breakdown of muscle and fat that happens when there's not enough insulin) Fatigue Blurred vision Slow-healing sores Mild high blood pressure Frequent infections...
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...should eat to be healthy In recent years, the concern for health is increasing. The main factors contributing to the declining levels of health in the Western world are a lack of physical exercise, paired with an unhealthy diet. Although this sounds like a simple problem to fix, the vast majority of people are not actually aware of the dangers of a poor diet. This essay will explain why a western diet is unhealthy and suggest ways that people can maintain a healthy lifestyle. There are several health disadvantages that a Western diet can cause. First and foremost is that the consumption of excessive calories often leads to obesity Agarwal (2008) reports that the USA has the highest daily consumption of calories per capita in the world, with 3770 calories consumed per person per day. According to Kemp, Paul and Segal (2001-10), a western diet contains a lot of sugar, which of course means more calories. To illustrate, 10 teaspoons of sugar are found in one cup of concentrated fruit juice. The typical diet in the USA has lead to sixty-five percent of people twenty years and older being obese, and this number is increasing (Agarwal 2008). Secondly, a typical Western diet is often high in unhealthy fats. Many standard Western foods such as red meat and dairy products contain a large amount of saturated fats. On top of this, processed foods such as margarines, candy and cookies are high in trans-fats (Kemp, Paul and Segal 2001-10). Moreover, Agarwal (2008) affirms that consuming...
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...Healthy Eating and Diabetes The foods that we eat can make all the difference in whether we are healthy, or whether we become sick, because, many illnesses can be caused, or be made worse by, the dietary choices that we make. The various types of diabetes--including type 2, the most prevalent--are no exception. Diabetes is an increasingly common, life-threatening illness that currently afflicts more than eight percent of all Americans. It is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States1. In no other illness does eating a healthy diet play a more important role than in diabetes. With appropriate dietary and lifestyle changes, and medications, diabetes can be controlled--and in the case of type 2, even reversed 2- and a diabetic can live a long, productive life. What is Diabetes? Diabetes mellitus, more commonly called simply diabetes, is a group of metabolic diseases. People afflicted with this disease have high blood sugar, either because their body does not produce enough insulin, or because the body's cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas, and it is central to regulating carbohydrate and fat metabolism in the body. The high blood sugar produces the classical symptoms associated with diabetes: frequent urination, increased thirst, and increased hunger. Different Types of Diabetes Type 1 Diabetes: Also called insulin-dependent or juvenile diabetes, type 1 can strike people of any age, mostly...
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...Unhealthy Eating Habits and Obesity Annotated Bibliography Krisberg, K. (2006). Food marketing toward youth contributing to unhealthy choices. Nation's Health, 36(1), 19. The article discusses that marketing food and beverages are focused at children ages twelve and younger causes them to request and eat foods high in calories, sugar, salt and less nutritious foods are causing obesity. The unhealthy eating habits learned by children while growing up will likely to carry unhealthy eating habits to adulthood. The marketing strategies are directed at kids through television, radio, Internet, magazines, cell phones, shopping malls as well as using a popular cartoon character to push junk foods and drinks to children. The parents need to be educated on what are unhealthy foods for the children. Kim Krisberg is a Senior Editor of the Nation's Health for American Public Health Association (APHA). APHA was founded in 1872, the oldest, largest and most diverse organization of public health professionals in the world. APHA aims to protect all Americans and their communities from preventable, serious health threats and strives to assure community-based health promotion and disease prevention activities and preventive health services are universally accessible in the United States. The website address is www.apha.org. In the article, food companies advertisements are directed to children and they are enticed by a popular cartoon character eating or drinking unhealthy foods or beverages...
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...DIABETES Definition: Diabetes is a condition where the body fails to utilize ingested glucose. Most of what we eat is broken down into glucose. Glucose is a form of sugar in the blood – it is the principal source of fuel for our bodies. It’s a metabolism disorderthat causes excessive thirst and production of large amounts of urine because the kidneys fail to conserve water. Metabolism refers to the way our bodies use digested food for energy and growth. When our food is digested, the glucose makes its way into our bloodstream. Our cells use the glucose for energy and growth. However, glucose cannot enter our cells without insulin being present. Insulin is a hormone that is produced by the pancreas. Insulin makes it possible for our cells to take in glucose. Types of Diabetes There are three (3) main types of diabetes. They are Type 1Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes and Gestational Diabetes. Patients with Type 1 Diabetes usually develop this type of diabetes before their 40th year, often in adulthood or teenage years. In this case, the body does not produce insulin. Some people refer to this type as insulin-dependent diabetes, juvenile diabetes or early-onset diabetes. Patients with Type 1 diabetes will need to take insulin injections for the rest of their life. They must also ensure proper blood-glucose levels by carrying out regular blood tests and following a special diet. Under Type 2 Diabetes, the body does not produce enough insulin for proper function or the cells in...
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...Effects of the kind of foods served in the school cafeteria. Date : 04/08/2012 Effects of the kind of foods served in the school cafeteria. We all know how much fast food is essential for human beings and other living things to survive. Earlier, people used to have healthy foods, but now eating habits are changing. Change in the lifestyle and because of the busy schedule, nowadays, most people tend to prefer fast food (junk food) which is unhealthy for us. The fast foods, which are poor in diet, can lead to very serious health issues especially in children. Children are more affected because schools and colleges mostly offer fast food and children also tend to choose fast food mostly for its taste. Fast foods have many serious effects on our body both physically and mentally. The first and the very common is obesity which is commonly seen in children. The busy hectic lives of parents and children make fast food an ultimate choice of food for them. Nowadays, both parents work so they get less to go and prepare healthy food. Hence, instead of healthy balanced diet, children opt for fast food which is easy and quick to make. This becomes a habit and children end up eating fast food almost every day. Taking in fast food means consuming unhealthy nutrients like more calories, more fats, more sugars, and more carbohydrates. In the first place adults only have to consume about 2000 calories per day, so; for example, one cheeseburger, a large order of fries, and a coke...
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...13-YEAR OLD WITH DIABETES AP2530 09-22-2015 ITT Technical Institute 13-YEAR OLD WITH DIABETES Hi my name is Renee, I am your doctor’s nurse. He wanted me to help you understand your new diagnosis type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is when the body cannot make insulin. Insulin is important because it helps your body move glucose (sugar) from the food you eat to your beta cells. Glucose is used as energy for your cells so they can work in your body properly. (Renfrew, 2014) Normally the endocrine system works to create insulin using a negative feedback system. The food that is consumed is broken down into sugar and raises your blood sugar level, the pancreas makes insulin, the insulin stimulates glycogen which is processed in the liver and brings the blood sugar levels back down. Your body is not creating insulin. There is nothing to process the sugar to bring energy into the cells and bring your blood sugar levels back down. This can cause feeling tired, increased thirst and urination, extreme hunger, weight loss, irritability, blurry vision, and yeast infections. (Blood Sugar Regulation, n.d.) There are a few different treatments that you will want to combine together to help your blood sugar levels and enable you to get energy. You will need to monitor your blood sugar levels frequently, eat healthy foods, count carbohydrates, exercise, and take your insulin. The idea behind this treatment is to keep your blood sugar level as close to normal as possible so that we...
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...Diabetes Type 2: Diabetes is a disease, which causes your blood sugar levels to be higher than normal. This can also be called hyperglycemia. Type 2 diabetes is when your body doesn’t produce enough insulin to keep up with the blood sugar levels or your body isn’t responsive to insulin. This is called insulin resistant. Insulin is a hormone produced in the pancreas after you eat to bring blood sugar levels down to normal through converting the extra glucose into glycogen in the liver and muscle cells. What happens after you eat sugary food? As blood sugars rise, the pancreas produces the hormone insulin. The blood with the insulin and glucose travel to the liver, where the insulin stimulates the liver to produce enzymes such as glycogen...
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...that they eat every day is harmful to our body because the amount of sugar that is being dumped in the food, they will stop eating that kind of food and start to eat healthy fresh organic food. The food that we eat on a daily basis will affect our long-term health specially the students; also, the food industry does not care about people’s health instead it cares only for money. In this paper, I will show that food industry is destroying people’s health on one hand by putting an enormous amount of sugar and on the other hand making low-fat products. What are the people really eating? Once in my human biology class Dr. Walter Hoeh said: “The food that you eat every day will not kill you now but it will kill you after twenty to thirty years from eating the food, however, eventually you will die from the food.” He explained how food affect us, when we heard the explanation we were shocked because we buy food without reading the ingredient. When you eat processed food it tastes delicious and you crave for more, but you are only eating sugar and harmful fats and that type of sugar and fats are harming the human body. According to Ms. Epel in the skinny of obesity episode 2, she said:” I'm suspicious a anything that says low-fat diet because you know that that means that they had to compensate with a lot these added sugars there's more than five ingredients its probably a processed food and there's probably not much real food in their it is almost impossible to buy those...
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...Abstract Diabetes is a word that is used for a group of metabolic diseases, where a person has high blood glucose (less formally known as blood sugar), either because the body doesn't make enough insulin or the body doesn't act properly around insulin or both. "People that have high blood sugar will usually experience polyuria (frequent urination), they will become increasingly thirsty (polydipsia) and hungry (polyphagia)" (Medical News Today). There are three different types of diabetes; type-1, type-2, and gestational. Each of the three types of diabetes has different causes, symptoms, and treatments. Gestational Diabetes This type of diabetes only affects females during pregnancy. So needless to say gestational diabetes is only diagnosed...
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...Diabetes is when a disease results in too much sugar in the blood. Also known as high blood glucose. There are two types of diabetes; diabetes 1 and 2. 8 things people with diabetes have to do is test their blood sugar and record it in a log book, take a medication prescribed by your doctor, check your feet as you may get wounds such as blisters, brush and floss your teeth; blood sugar levels can increase plaque in the mouth, be physically active; exercising improves blood flow, increase energy, helps from the impact of stress and makes sleeping better, focus on eating healthy meals and snacks, protect your skin; diabetes may cause fungal infection, Get a good night sleep; this increases metabolism. Diabetes 1 usually occurs to people who are now in their 40’s....
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