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How does our body get energy?
This energy comes from the food we eat.
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Our stomach digests the food we eat by mixing it with acids and enzymes that convert the sugars and starches in foods into glucose.
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Glucose goes to the blood, and it can be used immediately for energy or stored in our body for later use; to do that, our body needs insulin. Without insulin, glucose stays in the blood keeping high sugar levels. (https://wa.kaiserpermanente.org/)
The food we eat is transformed into glucose during digestion
The pancreas is responsible for producing insulin
Insulin is an hormone that allows cells to absorb glucose to be used as energy.
Cells are like small warehouses where the energy that the body needs to work, walk, think and sleep is produced.
In a normal situation, glucose that is in the blood enters cells through insulin keeping normal blood sugar levels.
Prediabetes means that your blood sugar level is higher than normal, but not high enough to call it diabetes.
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At this point, by making small changes in your life style you could prevent Type 2 diabetes, and PREVENT-T2 Program could help!
Type 2 diabetes occurs when the pancreas, which is an organ located behind the stomach, has trouble producing a substance called insulin.
Type 2 could be control by medication, or with changes in life style, or both.
Type 1 diabetes ocurres when pancreas did not produce enough or no insulin, so cells cannot absorb glucose from what we eat.
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Glucose accumulates in the blood causing health problems.
The way body gets insulin is by insulin shots.
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