Delaney Erb
Mr. Rodriguez
Health and Wellness
10 December 2018
Diabetes: Type 1 and 2
Diabetes 1 and 2 are a type of chronic disease that affects your body’s insulin levels and how your body regulates blood sugar or glucose. Type 1 is when your body is unable to provide insulin and type 2 is when your body is resistant to insulin. Type 1 diabetes is caused by the immune system mistakenly viewing the healthy cells as harmful bacteria and attacking the insulin-producing cells. There is not a clear answer for the reason why the immune system destroys healthy cells, but researchers do feel that genetics, exposure to viruses, and environmental factors are a main reason for the cause. Type 1 usually appears through childhood and adolescence, but rarely does it appear in adults. According to the American Diabetes Association, “1.25 million Americans have this disorder. This is about 5% of all diagnosed cases. The ADA estimates that 40,000 people receive a type 1 diagnosis each year in the United States.” Type 2 diabetes is caused when your body is insulin resistance. This means that a hormone in your body that is supposed to regulate the movement of sugars in your cells is either not producing enough insulin to maintain your glucose level or resists the effects of insulin. Some environmental factors that cause this disease are unhealthy eating habits and inactivity in the body. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “90% to 95% of diagnosed cases are type 2 diabetes.” Symptoms that are experienced in both type 1 and 2 diabetes are increase in thirst, fatigue, blurred vision, increase in hunger, and mood changes.
Type 1 and type 2 diabetes can physically affect our bodies by having a lack of energy and strength. The organs this disease affects are the heart, blood vessels, nerves, eyes, and kidneys. This negatively affects our bodies and alter us from how God intended us to be because people living with type 1 and type 2 diabetes have physical setbacks unlike people living without it and therefore will have a harder time adapting to life than how God intended humans to live. For type 1 and type 2 diabetes there are no regulatory processes that our body goes through to help fight off this disease. Type 1 diabetes is usually passed down to people with family history of diabetes or genetics. This disease could go untreated for a while, but it will start affecting your major organs, which can be life-threatening or cause you to become disabled. Overtime the symptoms of type 1 diabetes will start to worsen and increase the chance of having a major complication in your organs. Type 2 diabetes is caused by poor eating habits and lack of physical activity. If this disease goes untreated the high blood sugar will most likely start affecting various cells and organs in the body, which could potentially lead up to developing heart disease, loss of eyesight, kidney damage, or a stroke. If left a long time untreated your health will be at a serious risk and you should be extremely cautious of what might happen in the near future. Medical professionals are still not able to cure these two diseases that are appearing in people throughout the world, but studies have been shown that some ways to lessen the effects are by using insulin injections or an insulin pump, eating a healthy diet full of nutrients, and exercising.
Diabetes in general affects your emotional health tremendously. It causes your body to have a lot of mood changes that seem out of the ordinary. A few examples are anger, depression, and denial. Many people in the world will feel a sense of anger when diagnosed with diabetes because there upset about why this happened to them and not anyone else, and this disease makes you feel that your life is being threatened with all kinds of dangers or complications. They might also be at a greater risk for depression because they feel that life is hopeless and that they are fighting this battle of disease alone. Another emotion often experienced when first diagnosed with diabetes is denial because the person won’t want to believe that what there hearing from the doctors is true and that the diagnosis must be a mistake. So when talking to someone with diabetes you must be aware that how they might interact with the world might be different that’s their normal personality and try and make them feel that there is hope and that they are not all by themselves. If diabetes is not managed properly it can majorly affect a students academics. Memorizing, attention, planning, organizing, speed, and perceptual skills are a few examples of difficulties student with diabetes might experience in school. With diabetes stress might affect your mental health with even the simple aspects of your daily life, such as how you communicate with others, handling situations, or making decisions.
When interacting with others, diabetes can a affect someone’s communication skills because they might have an immense amount of mood swings. These side effects don’t prevent people with diabetes from being around others because people with this disease can still have great conversations with others around them. They might just switch moods or feelings on a specific subject when having a discussion. Diabetes doesn’t alter your physical appearance very much, but it does affect your weight which may make that person feel insecure of themself. While living with diabetes people are still capable of doing social and physical activities they just have to be aware of the signs their body may give them to tell them if they should take a break from the activity. For example, if a student with diabetes was playing in a soccer game and he started to have a headache and blurred vision he should come off the field and take a break on the sideline until he feels that his body is ready to continue playing. Environmental wellness is affected with someone who has diabetes because the eating habits must change in order to prevent the diabetes from affecting your organs event more. When diagnosed with diabetes your living conditions need to change in order to accommodate your current health because you need to get rid of all refined foods and trans fats, make time everyday to exercise, and have a positive environment to help you stay hopeful. To ensure that someone who is diagnosed with diabetes is living a safe, hazardous life you must make sure that they take their prescribed medication, get out of their house and exercise, be social and make new friends, and eat a balanced diet.
Diabetes affects our spiritual health because it makes people question their faith and loyalty to God. Many people who have diabetes have different opinions on what how there life should be lived after being diagnosed. People who have a positive outlook on life and find meaning in everything they do in their life, do feel like they have a purpose to be alive and live the life they were given. Others however look on the negative side and don’t see why they should live and how meaningful they are in the world. So it really depends on your outlook on life to see if you are living a meaning and purposeful life even with a setback. People can live the life that God intended us to live with this disease by being faithful to God and believe that he is looking out for your best interest and to know that he put you on this Earth for a reason. God created us to take care of our bodies so that we could do our daily tasks, enjoy life, and reproduce. Sadly, humans bodies have been affected by diabetes in which sometimes prevents them of doing what God wanted for humans. This disease is partially caused by bad habits, such as unhealthy diets and lack of exercise or just a misfortune. Although there is no cure for diabetes, there are medications and humans change in unhealthy environmental factors that are helping to save many people from death or being physically held back from this disease.
Here is one research case on a older women with type 2 diabetes. A 52 year old women with a history of type 2 diabetes and is obese complained about feeling fatigued, having a hard time losing weight, and having no energy. She explained how she was also diagnosed with depression and how she had gained an enormous amount of weight after being place on insulin. After trying to limit how much she eats, she said that she had symptoms of shakiness and an increase in hunger. Even though doctors have told her to lose weight and exercise more she complains that she had pain in her knees and ankles, which limits her capability to exercise. Doctors than decreased the level of insulin she should take and out her in a calorie restricted diet. Three months later, she returned to the clinic and explained how she felt a little less depressed and she had lost 7lbs. Her doctors then decreased her insulin levels again with the same restricted calorie diet and when she came back two months later, she had an average blood glucose level. She had lost more weight, was feeling more energetic, no longer depressed, and was able to join a walking program. Diabetes has affected this women’s physical, emotional, and mental health, but with her willingness to be healthier and talk to her doctors about how she was really feeling she was able to lesson her risk of coming close to death or becoming disabled. Three ways that could benefit someone who is living with diabetes are by being willing and open-minded about changing your bad habits, communicating with your doctors so that they know what path they should take in helping you get better, and staying strong because it will be very tough sometimes dealing with everything this disease needs in treating it, but you have to stay strong in order to get the outcome you want for your body.
Works Cited
Osborn, Corinne O’Keefe. “What's the Difference Between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes?” Healthline, Healthline Media, www.healthline.com/health/difference-between-type-1-and-type-2-diabetes.
“Type 1 Diabetes.” Mayo Clinic, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 7 Aug. 2017, www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/type-1-diabetes/symptoms-causes/syc-20353011.
“Type 2 Diabetes.” Mayo Clinic, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 15 Sept. 2018, www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/type-2-diabetes/symptoms-causes/syc-20351193.
“Diabetes in Schools – Information for Teachers & Staff.” Diabetes UK, Diabetes UK Https://Www.diabetes.org.uk, www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/your-child-and-diabetes/schools/school-staff.
“Mental Health.” American Diabetes Association, www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/complications/mental-health/.
“Diabetes Home.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 6 Aug. 2018, www.cdc.gov/diabetes/library/features/mental-health.html.
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Works Cited
Osborn, Corinne O’Keefe. “What's the Difference Between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes?” Healthline, Healthline Media,
www.healthline.com/health/difference-between-type-1-and-type-2-diabetes.
“Type 1 Diabetes.” Mayo Clinic, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 7 Aug. 2017,
www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/type-1-diabetes/symptoms-causes/syc-20353011.
“Type 2 Diabetes.” Mayo Clinic, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 15 Sept. 2018, www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/type-2-diabetes/symptoms-causes/syc-20351193.
“Mental Health.” American Diabetes Association, www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/complications/mental-health/.
“Diabetes in Schools – Information for Teachers & Staff.” Diabetes UK, Diabetes UK Https://Www.diabetes.org.uk, www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/your-child-and-diabetes/schools/school-staff.
“Diabetes Home.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 6 Aug. 2018, www.cdc.gov/diabetes/library/features/mental-health.html.
Delaney Erb
Mr. Rodriguez
Health and Wellness
10 December 2018
Diabetes: Type 1 and 2
Diabetes 1 and 2 are a type of chronic disease that affects your body’s insulin levels and how your body regulates blood sugar or glucose. Type 1 is when your body is unable to provide insulin and type 2 is when your body is resistant to insulin. Type 1 diabetes is caused by the immune system mistakenly viewing the healthy cells as harmful bacteria and attacking the insulin-producing cells. There is not a clear answer for the reason why the immune system destroys healthy cells, but researchers do feel that genetics, exposure to viruses, and environmental factors are a main reason for the cause. Type 1 usually appears through childhood and adolescence, but rarely does it appear in adults. According to the American Diabetes Association, “1.25 million Americans have this disorder. This is about 5% of all diagnosed cases. The ADA estimates that 40,000 people receive a type 1 diagnosis each year in the United States.” Type 2 diabetes is caused when your body is insulin resistance. This means that a hormone in your body that is supposed to regulate the movement of sugars in your cells is either not producing enough insulin to maintain your glucose level or resists the effects of insulin. Some environmental factors that cause this disease are unhealthy eating habits and inactivity in the body. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “90% to 95% of diagnosed cases are type 2 diabetes.” Symptoms that are experienced in both type 1 and 2 diabetes are increase in thirst, fatigue, blurred vision, increase in hunger, and mood changes.
Type 1 and type 2 diabetes can physically affect our bodies by having a lack of energy and strength. The organs this disease affects are the heart, blood vessels, nerves, eyes, and kidneys. This negatively affects our bodies and alter us from how God intended us to be because people living with type 1 and type 2 diabetes have physical setbacks unlike people living without it and therefore will have a harder time adapting to life than how God intended humans to live. For type 1 and type 2 diabetes there are no regulatory processes that our body goes through to help fight off this disease. Type 1 diabetes is usually passed down to people with family history of diabetes or genetics. This disease could go untreated for a while, but it will start affecting your major organs, which can be life-threatening or cause you to become disabled. Overtime the symptoms of type 1 diabetes will start to worsen and increase the chance of having a major complication in your organs. Type 2 diabetes is caused by poor eating habits and lack of physical activity. If this disease goes untreated the high blood sugar will most likely start affecting various cells and organs in the body, which could potentially lead up to developing heart disease, loss of eyesight, kidney damage, or a stroke. If left a long time untreated your health will be at a serious risk and you should be extremely cautious of what might happen in the near future. Medical professionals are still not able to cure these two diseases that are appearing in people throughout the world, but studies have been shown that some ways to lessen the effects are by using insulin injections or an insulin pump, eating a healthy diet full of nutrients, and exercising.
Diabetes in general affects your emotional health tremendously. It causes your body to have a lot of mood changes that seem out of the ordinary. A few examples are anger, depression, and denial. Many people in the world will feel a sense of anger when diagnosed with diabetes because there upset about why this happened to them and not anyone else, and this disease makes you feel that your life is being threatened with all kinds of dangers or complications. They might also be at a greater risk for depression because they feel that life is hopeless and that they are fighting this battle of disease alone. Another emotion often experienced when first diagnosed with diabetes is denial because the person won’t want to believe that what there hearing from the doctors is true and that the diagnosis must be a mistake. So when talking to someone with diabetes you must be aware that how they might interact with the world might be different that’s their normal personality and try and make them feel that there is hope and that they are not all by themselves. If diabetes is not managed properly it can majorly affect a students academics. Memorizing, attention, planning, organizing, speed, and perceptual skills are a few examples of difficulties student with diabetes might experience in school. With diabetes stress might affect your mental health with even the simple aspects of your daily life, such as how you communicate with others, handling situations, or making decisions.
When interacting with others, diabetes can a affect someone’s communication skills because they might have an immense amount of mood swings. These side effects don’t prevent people with diabetes from being around others because people with this disease can still have great conversations with others around them. They might just switch moods or feelings on a specific subject when having a discussion. Diabetes doesn’t alter your physical appearance very much, but it does affect your weight which may make that person feel insecure of themself. While living with diabetes people are still capable of doing social and physical activities they just have to be aware of the signs their body may give them to tell them if they should take a break from the activity. For example, if a student with diabetes was playing in a soccer game and he started to have a headache and blurred vision he should come off the field and take a break on the sideline until he feels that his body is ready to continue playing. Environmental wellness is affected with someone who has diabetes because the eating habits must change in order to prevent the diabetes from affecting your organs event more. When diagnosed with diabetes your living conditions need to change in order to accommodate your current health because you need to get rid of all refined foods and trans fats, make time everyday to exercise, and have a positive environment to help you stay hopeful. To ensure that someone who is diagnosed with diabetes is living a safe, hazardous life you must make sure that they take their prescribed medication, get out of their house and exercise, be social and make new friends, and eat a balanced diet.
Diabetes affects our spiritual health because it makes people question their faith and loyalty to God. Many people who have diabetes have different opinions on what how there life should be lived after being diagnosed. People who have a positive outlook on life and find meaning in everything they do in their life, do feel like they have a purpose to be alive and live the life they were given. Others however look on the negative side and don’t see why they should live and how meaningful they are in the world. So it really depends on your outlook on life to see if you are living a meaning and purposeful life even with a setback. People can live the life that God intended us to live with this disease by being faithful to God and believe that he is looking out for your best interest and to know that he put you on this Earth for a reason. God created us to take care of our bodies so that we could do our daily tasks, enjoy life, and reproduce. Sadly, humans bodies have been affected by diabetes in which sometimes prevents them of doing what God wanted for humans. This disease is partially caused by bad habits, such as unhealthy diets and lack of exercise or just a misfortune. Although there is no cure for diabetes, there are medications and humans change in unhealthy environmental factors that are helping to save many people from death or being physically held back from this disease.
Here is one research case on a older women with type 2 diabetes. A 52 year old women with a history of type 2 diabetes and is obese complained about feeling fatigued, having a hard time losing weight, and having no energy. She explained how she was also diagnosed with depression and how she had gained an enormous amount of weight after being place on insulin. After trying to limit how much she eats, she said that she had symptoms of shakiness and an increase in hunger. Even though doctors have told her to lose weight and exercise more she complains that she had pain in her knees and ankles, which limits her capability to exercise. Doctors than decreased the level of insulin she should take and out her in a calorie restricted diet. Three months later, she returned to the clinic and explained how she felt a little less depressed and she had lost 7lbs. Her doctors then decreased her insulin levels again with the same restricted calorie diet and when she came back two months later, she had an average blood glucose level. She had lost more weight, was feeling more energetic, no longer depressed, and was able to join a walking program. Diabetes has affected this women’s physical, emotional, and mental health, but with her willingness to be healthier and talk to her doctors about how she was really feeling she was able to lesson her risk of coming close to death or becoming disabled. Three ways that could benefit someone who is living with diabetes are by being willing and open-minded about changing your bad habits, communicating with your doctors so that they know what path they should take in helping you get better, and staying strong because it will be very tough sometimes dealing with everything this disease needs in treating it, but you have to stay strong in order to get the outcome you want for your body.
Works Cited
Osborn, Corinne O’Keefe. “What's the Difference Between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes?” Healthline, Healthline Media,
www.healthline.com/health/difference-between-type-1-and-type-2-diabetes.
“Type 1 Diabetes.” Mayo Clinic, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 7 Aug. 2017,
www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/type-1-diabetes/symptoms-causes/syc-20353011.
“Type 2 Diabetes.” Mayo Clinic, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 15 Sept. 2018, www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/type-2-diabetes/symptoms-causes/syc-20351193.
“Mental Health.” American Diabetes Association, www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/complications/mental-health/.
“Diabetes in Schools – Information for Teachers & Staff.” Diabetes UK, Diabetes UK Https://Www.diabetes.org.uk, www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/your-child-and-diabetes/schools/school-staff.
“Diabetes Home.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 6 Aug. 2018, www.cdc.gov/diabetes/library/features/mental-health.html.