Causes Of Diabetes

Generally, the main causes of adult and young diabetics are

 a) over eating

 b) lack of exercise

 c) unhealthy diet

 d) inconsistent meal schedule

 e) hereditary

Do you know the diabetics community is expanding very fast nowadays? Do you know there are now more young diabetics than adults diabetics?

 Why?  How Could Children Be Diabetics?

Young diabetics are attributed mainly to their style of living and the types of food they consume as well as the overly loving parents they have.

Nowadays, parents pamper their children and feed them very well, in fact, too well ! Look into the fast food restaurants, just pick anyone and take a peek inside. Now tell me, Who are the majority of their customers? Yes, children ! Young children! And many of them have their meals at these fast food restaurant together with their parents. Very rarely would you be able to spot adults having their meals in fast food restaurants, without a child by their side.

Too Much Yummy Food

No, I do not deny the fact that the aroma of the fried chicken, the fries, the sandwiches are simply overwhelming, simply Yummy!…Irresistible!  Ahh… also not forgetting the well chilled soft drink! simply heavenly! Even an adult love fried food and sweet items, it would be unimaginable how the youngsters could turn away from such temptation. But gosh, the food is high in carbo & sugar! Favorite of the youngsters.

To make situation worse, most of us would slurp and gobble down the food … very quickly! Why? Very hungry, of course! I did that too … mainly because I would only start searching for food when I feel hungry. There are long queues every where, whether at the food courts, hawker centres, fast food restaurants, cafe, literally long queues at all food and beverages outlets. (By the way, have you ever wonder why queues at fast food restaurants are moving extremely slow? I just could not figure out why queues at fast food restaurants are so long (as if they are giving away free food) and did not seem to be moving at all!)

By the time we got our food, we would be feeling very terrible, our stomach groaning embarrassingly loud.

To silent the groaning stomach, many of us, especially younger children would gulp!… gobble down the food but because it would take sometimes for the food to reach the stomach and be digested, most of us would still be feeling hungry. This happen to both the olds and youngs.

Chances are, after eating, we would still be looking around for more food and stuff them into your almost fully filled stomach.

Ahhh…feeling very satisfied? Yes! but oops!… Yes, you have over eaten!

Your Body System Working Hard

Your digestive system is already working very hard to help digest the food you have eaten, turning the food into glucose or sugar to be distributed to the rest of the body which will give you energy to keep you going with your daily activities. In the meantime, your body system will also be busy producing a substance known as insulin to move the glucose into the blood system, the distribution system within your body, sending glucose to all parts of your body.

If you over eat, your digestive system will have to work doubly hard, turning the excessive food that you have eaten into glucose. With the excessive glucose, your body system will have to work hard distributing the glucose to all parts of your body.

Your Body System Cannot Function Normally

However, if your blood circulation is not too good, the glucose may not be sent around your body effectively. Glucose not being properly utilized would remain in the blood as sugar. when the sugar level in the body is too high, you will be exposed to type 2 diabetes, heart attacks, stroke etc. This apply to the youngs as well.

For people or children whose body system is unable to produce insulin or cannot produce enough insulin to help move glucose into the blood, they would also have the same problem of having too much glucose or sugar remaining in the blood. Thus, the number of young diabetics are increasing, due to over eating.

There are also others whose body system can produce insulin but the body system simply could not utilize the insulin to move the glucose into the blood. Such insulin resistance condition would also result in too much glucose or sugar staying in the blood.

If you continue to over eat regularly, there will be more glucose accumulated in your body system. This is very bad for your health. This is particularly so if you are already over weight and worse, if you do not exercise at all. Frankly, it is not a joking matter being a young diabetic… Please look out for Diabetics Are Getting Younger (Part 2)