Diabetes+Notes+ZW

__Diabetes__ __Digestive Enzymes__ __Insulin__ __Type 1 DIabetes__ __Type 2 Diabetes__ __Can lead to...__
 * Diabetes is a disease in which th body does not produce or properly use insulin. Insulin is a hormone made by the pancreas that the body uses to convert the food that you eat into energy needed for daily life.
 * Produced in pancreas
 * Used in small intestine
 * When you eat, food turns into sugar
 * Sugar travels through the blood stream to the cells
 * Pancreas releases insulin
 * On the membrane on a cell, there is a special protein that can match the insulin (lock to key)
 * After that a gluclose passage open
 * Occurs mostly in children
 * Last for a lifetime
 * 5% of all children have it
 * 90-95% of all cases
 * intake abstract amount of gluclose
 * So much insulin that the receptors ignore it
 * they adapt to it
 * in middle age and older adults
 * Eventually the pancreas stops making insulin
 * Sweet urine
 * Frequent urination
 * Vision problems
 * Kidney problems
 * Foot problems
 * Heart disease, including heart attack
 * Stroke
 * 2 out of 3 people have heart disease or stroke