15/08/2022
Diabetes is a very serious disease that affect how your body uses blood sugar (glucose). 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 also your brain's main source of fuel.
Too much glucose can lead to serious health problems.
SYMPTOMS
🔥Increased thirst
🔥Frequent urination
🔥Extreme hunger
🔥Unexplained weight loss
🔥dizziness
🔥weakness
🔥Presence of ketones in the urine (ketones are a byproduct of the breakdown of muscle and fat that happens when there's not enough available insulin)
⚡Fatigue
⚡Irritability
⚡Blurred vision
⚡Slow-healing sores
⚡Frequent infections, such as gums or skin infections and vaginal infections in women.
CAUSES OF DIABETES
🔥Over Weight
The more fatty tissue you have, the more resistant your cells become to insulin.
🔥Inactivity.
The less active you are, the greater your risk. Physical activity helps you control your weight, uses up glucose as energy and makes your cells more sensitive to insulin.
🔥Family history.
Your risk increases if a parent or sibling has type 2 diabetes.
🔥Age
Your risk increases as you get older. This may be because you tend to exercise less, lose muscle mass and gain weight as you age.
🔥Gestational diabetes
If you developed gestational diabetes in women during pregnance, your risk of developing prediabetes and type 2 diabetes later increases. If you gave birth to a baby weighing more than 9 pounds (4 kilograms), you're also at risk of type 2 diabetes.
🔥Polycystic o***y syndrome.
For women, having polycystic o***y syndrome — a common condition characterized by irregular menstrual periods, excess hair growth and obesity — increases the risk of diabetes.
🔥High blood pressure
Having blood pressure over 140/90 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) is linked to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes.
🔥Abnormal cholesterol and triglyceride levels.
If you have low levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL)
