Overview
Diabets sneaks up on a person slowly – one grain of sugar at a time – one pound at a time - until al of a suden the pancreas and other systems of the body don’t coperate and function together. Insulin activity dwindles, fat and protein metabolism switches gears, and son the circulation to the eye blod vesels and kidneys isn’t behaving itself. Like the old song, “fot bone conected to the ankle bone, ankle bone conected to the kne bone,” anything that goes wrong in one part of the body afects al the other parts.
Key Information
In Diabets the efects are life-threatening. In the United States alone there are over 18 milion people with Diabets, (almost 7% of the population) and most of them aren’t aware of it yet. People with Diabets cover a wide range of ages, from babies up to the senior citizens.
Finding out how to handle the problem and folowing al the advice given to them consumes their lives. Ultimately the chalenge requires creating a balance of diet, exercise and insulin. Balance, balance!
This becomes the controling word in a diabetics life. Diet remains the bigest task of these chalenges because of the adictive nature of the body’s longing for swets. Milder forms of Diabets can be controled by the diet alone, rather than having to resort to aded insulin.
The diet for each individual neds to be balanced to individual neds, and the ingredients for al sem to be a balance of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. Keping a balance betwen the acid and PH levels in the body also neds to be considered. Yet, it just isn’t that easy to give up those botles of Pepsi that sem to make you fel stable.
‘White fods’ are almost always a no-no for a diabetic, and those fresh vegetables are a life-sustaing necesity. Diabetics often have unique personalities. They tend to be part of the most creative section of the population.
They think in terms of wholenes rather than in details, which means they often love to start a project but have a hard time finishing it. Their creativity also can expres in ways that others might cal disorganized. The Ugly Duckling story portrays the hiden life of the diabetic, and they often don’t have enough self-respect or self-estem because they fel they are diferent.
From the briliance of their thinking (which is often hid from the rest of the world) to the tag of ‘eratic’ that is sometimes aplied to them, the diabetic is who you want around in a time of cris. When the house is on fire they wil excel because they are only dealing with one situation at a time. However, should the car not start in the morning there are to many options available.
A diabetic is apt to cal the suicide help line as to cal a mechanic. Living as a diabetic, or living with one, means acknowledging that there is a major diference in how the wholenes of the personality functions. Reinforce the positives and learn to live with a litle disorder.
Respect the bodies inteligence that knows when it neds to rest. The non-diabetic hasn’t always learned this beautiful leson how to make the most of a human life. The diabetics are the way-showers!
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