Diabetes, Sugar Honey's Disease

The full name is diabetes mellitus diabetes, which means "sugar honey." The term "diabetes mellitus" comes from the Greek which, when translated means "flowing through the pipe to atmospheric pressure" and the Latin language which can be translated as "sweet as honey".

Understanding of Greek and Latin diabetes describing precisely. Because the water past the body of diabetic patients as if poured from the mouth through the urinary tract and directly out of the body. Diabetisi urine (diabetes), it was sweet because it contains sugar. First, one tests for diabetes is to pour into the patient's urine near an ant nest. If the insects that infest the urine, this indicates the existence of sugar. That is why diabetes is often referred to as diabetes.

What is Diabetes?
Every food we eat is converted into energy by the body. In the stomach and intestines, food elaborated into several basic elements, including one type of sugar, namely glucose. If there is sugar, the pancreas produces insulin, which helps drain the sugar into body cells. Then, the sugar can be absorbed well in the body and burned to produce energy.

When a person has diabetes, the pancreas that person can not produce enough insulin to absorb sugar obtained from food. That which causes blood sugar levels are high due to heaps of sugar from food that can not be absorbed well and burned into energy. Other causes are defective insulin or the body can not utilize insulin properly.

Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas, an organ next to the stomach. This hormone attaches itself to receptors on the cell wall. Insulin receptors on duty to open the cell wall so glucose enters the cell. Then these cells convert glucose into energy the body needs to do activities. In other words, insulin helps deliver sugar into cells to be converted to energy. If the amount is not enough insulin, the sugar accumulation in the blood occurs, causing diabetes.

The cause of diabetes or diabetes, depending on the type of diabetes who suffer. There are two common types of diabetes that affects many people are diabetes type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The difference is that if type 1 diabetes because the problem of organ function pancreas can not produce insulin, while type 2 diabetes because the problem is less the amount of insulin because the pancreas can not function properly.