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Causes of Diabetes and it’s Symptoms
Doctors are getting concerned over the increasing incidence of diabetes in young and old patients. It seems that people are getting more prone to this disease in our time and there are no programs in placed to arrest the problem. Children are no longer exempted from developing diabetes as well; this is largely due to expectant mothers who have poor diet consisting of sugar laden foods and high fat meals. When expectant mothers developed gestational diabetes, the infant is more likely to develop the disease later in life.
Most diabetes symptoms include thirst, sudden weight loss, unexplained fatigue and a host of other problems that are complications of the disease. When diabetes is not treated, a patient can go blind, suffer stroke, have a heart attack, and develop high blood pressure and a host of other associated problems. Some patients are not symptomatic and maybe surprised to find their medical findings in a routine check up.
There are many causes of diabetes and depending on the type, a patient may have been predisposed to the disease because of genetics – this is for type I diabetes. For type II diabetes however, lifestyle and diet are the main culprit in developing the disease. The combined sedentary lifestyle and poor diet has resulted in obesity, a leading cause of diabetes. The body needs fuel to function properly, but when too much food or fuel is being stored and is not being used, the balance between blood sugar and insulin hormone becomes broken.
