Simple Health Cures

   You can catch diabetes from someone else:

   Diabetes is not an infectious or contagious disease. Scientist don’t know for sure exactly what causes the disorder, but it can’t be caught from another person, like a cold or the flu. There, does, however appear to be a genetic link with type 2 diabetes. If a family member has the condition, you’re at higher risk for the disease.

   There’s only one dangerous kind of diabetes:

   Not so. Diabetes refers to a group of disease- all of which require serious attention that have in common the body’s inability to properly convert glucose from food into energy, leading to a high level of sugar in the blood. The main kinds include type 1 ( formerly known as juvenile-onset diabetes), type 2 ( once called adult-onset diabetes), and gestational (which occurs only during pregnancy). The suspected causes differ for each type, but managing any type of diabetes requires balancing food, physical activity, and if needed, medications. And while people with type 1 diabetes need to take insulin every day for their entire lives, type 2 diabetes is no less of a concern, because ignoring it could lead to devastating complications such as blindness, heart attack and stroke.

   Only people with diabetes need insulin:

   Everyone needs insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas that allows the body to convent food into energy for activity. People who don’t have diabetes make and use the right amount of this chemical. People with diabetes either don’t make any insulin, don’t make enough, or can’t use the insulin they make properly. If you or someone you’re caring for has type 2 diabetes, it’s important to balance food, activity, and in some cases medications, which may include insulin injections or an insulin pump (insulin isn’t available in pill form), to get the necessary amount of this essential hormone. And to dispense with another myth in this area. Insulin is a tool to manage diabetes, not a cure.