Diabetes and Its Types, Signs and Symptoms. In English Language
Diabetes and Its Types, Signs and Symptoms Welcome to our health blog. We're going to explain how your body processes the food you eat in order to provide all your body cells with the energy they need, and also what happens when you have diabetes and this system doesn't work properly? When you eat food that contains carbohydrate, it's broken down in the stomach and digestive system into glucose, which is a type of sugar. We need glucose from food because that's what gives us energy. Carbohydrate containing foods are things like starchy foods, sugary foods, milk, and some dairy products and fruit. This glucose then moves into the bloodstream and the body detect that the blood glucose level is rising. In response to that the pancreas, which is a little gland that sits just underneath the stomach, starts to release a hormone called insulin. It’s insulin that helps our body get the energy from the food we eat. The blood stream then takes the glucose and the insulin to ever...