What is diabetes?
Diabetes is simply an increase in the glucose content of your blood, due to the inability of your cells to properly access or use this glucose.Diabetes has killed more than AIDS and malaria combined.


The Breakdown:
You will remember that we have a special class of food called carbohydrates a.k.a energy giving foods. It includes such foods as: bread, rice… Carbohydrates are usually called polysaccharides because they contain very many different types of sugars. However there is a special type of sugar we call glucose that your cells need for energy. So your body has to extract glucose from carbohydrate.

To do this your body uses different types of chemicals called enzymes to separate the glucose from carbohydrate in the following steps:

1. Mouth: the separation begins in your mouth. When you chew your bread (carbohydrate), you are mixing it with your saliva, your saliva comes from a place we call the salivary gland. Your salivary gland also produces a chemical we call amylase. Amylase changes the carbohydrate into a form we call Maltose (maltose contains only 2 sugars, so from many sugars we now have just 2).

2. Esophagus: When you swallow, the food has left your mouth and travels in a wave like form through ‘road’ we call esophagus. Nothing much happens here.

3. Stomach: so your food has finally gotten to the stomach. Your stomach is acidic and so the acid ‘kills’ that amylase that was produced in your mouth, and that travelled with your food which is now maltose all this while.

4. Duodenum: From the stomach our food (which is now maltose) enters the duodenum. The duodenum is the first part of the small intestine, just immediately after the stomach. In the duodenum, maltose now mixes with another chemical (enzyme) called maltase, which finally converts it to glucose, which your cells need for energy.


But what of Insulin?

Insulin is another chemical (a hormone this time), that determines how high or low the glucose in your blood is. After carbohydrate has been converted to glucose, the glucose is transported by the blood around the body.

Now, if the glucose content of your blood is high, certain cells called Beta Cells in an organ called the pancreas are signaled to release insulin. Insulin is like a password that tells your body cells to start absorbing glucose.

If the glucose level is still excess, insulin signals the liver to store this glucose in a form called glycogen, and this is released later when the glucose level in your blood drops. Insulin, in other words, is a ‘glucose level regulator’.

So What Causes Diabetes

Diabetes can be caused by two factors:

1. Total lack of insulin: this results when our immune system erroneously sees beta cells (the cells that tell the pancreas to produce insulin) as enemies and destroys them. So, the pancreas are unaware of the glucose level in the blood.

2. Insufficient production of insulin: this results when the pancreas cannot produce enough insulin to regulate the blood glucose level or when the amount of glucose in the blood is excess as compared to what the insulin produced can handle.

What are Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes

This is quite simple. Type 1 Diabetes is diabetes caused by total lack of insulin. It is also called Insulin Dependent Diabetes.
Type 2 Diabetes is diabetes caused by insufficient production of insulin. Or, because the cells are not responding to the insulin produced. It is also called Non-insulin Dependent Diabetes.

What are the common symptoms of Diabetes

Diabetes is usually not easily identified. However, occurrence of more than four of these symptoms listed below together should call for medical intervention.

Symptoms of Diabetes include:
1 It is often detected in children
2 Blurred vision
3 Frequent urination, and bed-wetting for children
4 Smelling breath (the breath might have the smell of common fruits, but cannot be perceived by the diabetic)
5 Unquenchable thirst
6 Unexplainable weight loss
7 Wounds and cuts that take abnormally long to heal
8 Sugary urine

Now, if these symptoms are detected in a child or an early adult it is most likely Type 1 Diabetes. If it is detected much later in life, it is Type 2 Diabetes.

How Can Diabetes Be Managed

Let me state here that being diagnosed with diabetes is not a death sentence. As medical science has developed so much as to understand the root causes. Properly diagnose them and proffer ways of management.

ü In cases of type 1 diabetes, regular insulin shots are required. This is because, the body cannot produce insulin at all and so, insulin has to be injected into the bloodstream manually. Sufferers of type 1 diabetes will always have to check their blood sugar level regularly.



1 Sufferers of Type 2 Diabetes must involve in regular exercise and must fight weight gain
2 General diabetics must keep close watch on their diets. Fast foods must be limited as much as possible.
3 Avoid stress. An increase in stress can cause an increase in blood glucose level.


What are foods that a diabetic should avoid

Generally diabetics should limit consumption of refined carbohydrates like:
1. Rice
2. Pasta (noodles)
3. White bread
4. French fries
5. Any snack processed with white flour

NB: Since prevention is better than cure, you don’t have to be a diabetic before limiting the intake of the above mentioned foods.

What are the kinds of food a diabetic should consume

The following are some foods that are medically recommended for diabetics:
1 Fresh fruits
2 Leafy vegetables, this provides fiber
3 Whole wheat bread
4 Baked sweet potato
5 Whole grain pasta


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Kelklein:
cows have best friends like humans.

A group of flamingos is called a " flamboyance."

This got me laughing. Thanks for your contribution.

Cuteamigo1:
the part that says killing a panda can attract the death penalty
is some major BS. and yet thier country is know as the central market of potched animal parts.

Selling of exotic animal meat in china is a very serious offence. That doesn't mean it is not done, it means it is risky.

stubbornman:

if e no dey bark wetin I dey carry am do nah.

abeg aniete come carry

It is mostly used for hunting, and is quiet resistant to common dog ailments.

ashkenking:
soundless dog. . wish to own 1 of dat

The breed is very common in congo DR. They can't bark because there throat (larynx) is thin. So instead of barking, they baroo

Obinoscopy:
Nice.

Don't forget to include your source when you're done.

Alright, how is it now?

10. The angler fish is one of the strangest creatures. When a male angler fish sees a female it attaches itself to the female and gradually becomes an organ of the female I.e a part of her body. So the male totally ceases to exist, and the female now has a new organ (a testes) and hence reproduction can occur.



[url]animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/anglerfish/[/url]

9. there is a special kind of microscopic animals called tardigrades they can survive almost anything: freezing, harmful radiations, and can live comfortably in space or vacumn



www.tardigrada.net/newsletter/tardigrades.htm

astarotte:
Op why did you stop posting now, I want to see more of those facts.

Sorry, just had a small network issue.

8.A mayfly has a lifespan of roughly 8 hours. This means if a mayfly is given birth to by 8 in the morning, it has from then till 4 in the evening that same day to: grow, mature, mate and eventually die




[url]global.britannica.com/animal/mayfly[/url]

7.The Basenji is the only specie of Dogs that do not bark and hence it is nicknamed the "soundless dog"





https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basenji



Cc. Lalasticlala, mynd44, obinoscopy.

6.In china killing a panda can attract a death sentence.


www.ibtimes.co.uk/panda-killers-china-prosecuted-may-face-death-penalty-1520971

5.A group of Owls is called a Parliament

4.Like humans Elephants also experience Menopause



[url]elephant.elehost.com/About_Elephants/Life_Cycles/Adult/adult.html[/url]

3. Bats can't walk, no thanks to there very very very thin leg bones.

2.A group of parrots is called a PANDEMONIUM

1. Some Bees feed on human tears. This species of bees are majorly found in Thailand.Gross!.



[url]io9.gizmodo.com/5907063/holy-crap-these-bees-will-drink-tears-from-your-eyes[/url]

daretodiffer:
I believe that alleged rape victims who have been found out to be lying should spend the same years as the rapists world have spent if found guilty

God bless you!. That was my point when I was arguing with my female pals offline. If gender equality is what we truly seek then justice must be gender blind.


A girl can just accuse you of rape, soil your relationships, dismember your reputation and bring you to ground zero. When this accusations prove false, the accuser just walks away as if nothing happened.

Omotayor123:
Nice post.
But I think a man should be Man enough to make a move on the woman he loves. If he's too shy to do just that, I don't see how he intends to live forever as her husband.! *my view*

I Think a woman should be 'WOMAN' enough to go for what she wants. This timidity transfers into the marriage in most cases. She can't initiate sex, she can't openly communicate her sexual preferences e.t.c.



If women will take the sense of challenge they bring to there careers into the relationship arena, relationships will be more fun and marriage will last longer.


African women don't just take the INITIATIVE when it comes to relationships. Everything is left for the men: men woo, men spend,men disvirgin e.t.c.

Haba!

Booyakasha:
and goku?

Can't really talk about goku. Don't know much about him.

This is a tricky question, but I will go for kratos. He is a god and so can't really be killed. Superman turns to butter when kryptonite is around.

More!
Cc. Lalasticlala, seun, obinoscopy, oam4j.

More!

A life hack implies a clever way of doing every day tasks. This thread will show some of the most amazing life hacks ever. Enjoy!

Estharfabian:

What did you glean from it?

AVRecruit:
the power of a woman to use sexual power to entice men wanes when and if:
i. men will be men and realize they were ordained to control women.
ii. men obtains varied options of pretty faces.
iii. fears God
iv. The woman passes the age of 28.

@first bolded: I don't get your point there.

@ seconded bolded: I think I will agree, since most men generally prefer younger women.

@ kilode100, estherfabian and sirWere. Kindly read this opionion piece by funke egbemode of the sun newspapers :http://sunnewsonline.com/new/fortune-hunters/.


@kilode100 the editorial futher buttresses my point as regards our last discussion. Please read it and get back.

kilode100:


You got it all wrong!!
Sugabelly had it all planned!! See how she crumbled Audu's Dynasty, she kept mails of 19gbidigbidi I bet Young Audu didn't see that coming...

sugar mummy's make use those boy's destiny for their selfish aims and they will make you believe they are vulnerable, it suits them because they want you to be comfortable and not suspect them: till they sap you of every good thing in their body and then dump yo sorry ass.

I go talk o

@ ist boldeded, are'nt you exaggerating there? No tangible damage was done to the audu's I think.

@ the second bolded, should we say the same for sugar daddies I.e they use the destinies of the young girls?

Estharfabian:
They Would never listen...they think our world revolve around "Money"....in a way it does, but not in that aspect abeg...


I practically lose all respect for a guy if he thinks the only way to get me is through buying Rechargecards and spending babash...

@ the bolded, that's were women get the men confused. You will say "its not about the money", an hour later you hear: "I can't date a broke guy". How do you reconcile them?

kilode100:


Not anymore Bro...
We don tear eye o

You can deny it all you want, but a fact it is nonetheless. Women too are paying for sex, probably not as much as men, but a payment nonetheless. A psycologists puts it this way:

1. Younger women are easily manipulated by older men. (You saw the sugarbelly/audu saga).

2. Older women are easily manipulated women (the sugar mummy syndrome).

Its not absolute though, but a good approximate.

SirWere:
Mind you, man has also managed to turn a woman's weapon against her. Via her love for sweet words and affection. Unfortunately, man isstill no match for Womrn's wiles

SirWere, I have tried to reason the lot of a man, and have come to a painfull conclusion : the life of a man is hard. Manipulated on all sides yet cursed to be strong.