Sugar
What is sugar?
A natural ingredient (or manmade) (Carbohydrate)
What is Diabetes?
Simple answer!!!
A chronic disease.
Can this be prevented?
No... not in the present...
How much percent of people with diabetes have type 2?
90%
What does sugar do?
It provides energy for the body.
When the _________ is no longer able to either make _________ or when the body can´t make good use of the _________ which it produces.
Pancreas
Insulin x2
The body produces _____ ______ or _____ insulin.
very little
no
Common in ________
older adults
Name the 3 of the most common kinds of sugar.
Sucrose, Fructose, Glucose, lactose and maltose
The Pancreas maintains the body´s ________________.
It belongs to the endocrine and ___________ systems.
blood glucose (sugar) balance
digestive
How much percent of percent of people with diabetes have type 1?
Who can get it?
usually _________ or _______ _______
People at any age
children or young adults
Name 3 symptoms
Feeling thirsty often and having a dry mouth, Frequent urination,Feeling tired, not having much energy,Wounds heal slowly, Infections in the skin repeatedly occur, Blurred Vision, Tingling in hands/feet (numb Feeling)
Name 4 examples of sucrose (table sugar)
Granulated sugar, caster sugar, icing sugar, demerara, light brown sugar and muscovado sugar.
It lets glucose pass from the blood stream into the cells in the body (to produce energy)
Name 5 symptoms
Feeling very (strangely) thirsty and a dry mouth, Sudden weight loss, Frequent urination, Lack of energy ; feeling tired, Always hungry, Blurry Vision, Bedwetting
Name 4 things/ways a person with with type 2 diabetes lives with this.
Help: They must ...
ex. have ... ______ ...
healthy diet
lots of exercise
healthy body weight
oral medication/insulin
not Smoking
How many grams of glucose does the brain need? And when? And for what?
The brain needs about 130 grams of glucose each day, in order to cover basic energy needs.
What is the other term for: raised glucose levels in the blood/high blood sugar
hyperglycemia
What is insulin usually injected by?
Name 3 ways!!!!
a Syringe
Insulin pen
Insulin pump
What are the two (common) medicines of oral medication concerning diabetes?
Meltformin
Sulfonylureas