Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces. Insulin is a hormone that regulates blood sugar. Hyperglycemia, or raised blood sugar, is a common effect of uncontrolled diabetes and over time leads to serious damage to many of the body’s systems, especially the nerves and blood vessels.

Type 2 diabetes

Type 2 diabetes (formerly called non-insulin-dependent, or adult-onset) results from the body’s ineffective use of insulin. The majority of people with diabetes have type 2 diabetes. This type of diabetes is largely the result of disruption of insulin receptors.  Trans-fatty acids and cooked saturated animal fats, which contain trans-fatty acids, tend to block and disorganize the cell membranes in a way that disrupts the insulin receptors in the cells. For this we should remove animal fats and trans fats off our plate.

Diabetes is a serious condition whose characteristic is higher than normal blood sugar levels in the body. Diabetes occurs when your body cannot make or effectively use its own insulin, a hormone made by special cells in the pancreas called islets (eye-lets). Insulin serves as a “key” to open your cells, to allow the sugar (glucose) from the food you eat to enter. Then, your body uses that glucose for energy.  Type 1 and type 2 diabetes are the most common forms of the disease, but there are also other kinds, such as gestational diabetes, which occurs during pregnancy, Type 3 diabetes which is also known as Alzheimer’s disease, etc. 

Alert! Now comes the MYTH BUSTER !!

Excess blood sugar is not the ‘CAUSE’ of type 2 diabetes, instead it is the excess fat (more specifically in medical terminology, triglycerides) that causes diabetes. These lines are not only written in highly peered reviewed journal, but also in medical textbooks that a doctor study to become a doctor !!

Most of the people do not know this fact. Even their doctors do not tell them this. Patients think that as the increased blood sugar in the problem, just reducing blood sugar will cure their problem and they end up taking medicines. 

Actually, the reality is, today’s medical science is focused on treating the symptom rather them the cause.

Type 1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes (previously known as insulin-dependent, juvenile or childhood-onset) is characterized by deficient insulin production and requires daily administration of insulin. Cow’s milk seems to be strongly linked to the onset of Type-1. Those with Type-1 diabetes were more likely to have been breastfed for less than three months and exposed to cow’s milk before four months. Research has also shown that children who consumed pasteurized cow’s milk before the age of three months were 11 times more likely to develop Type-1 diabetes.

Symptoms include excessive excretion of urine (polyuria), thirst (polydipsia), constant hunger, weight loss, vision changes, and fatigue. These symptoms may occur suddenly.

Impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glycaemia

Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and impaired fasting glycaemia (IFG) are intermediate conditions in the transition between normality and diabetes. People with IGT or IFG are at high risk of progressing to type 2 diabetes, although this is not inevitable.