Gestational diabetes happens when your body can't make enough insulin during pregnancy. Insulin is a hormone made in your pancreas, an organ located behind your stomach. Insulin helps your body use glucose for energy and helps control your blood glucose levels.
During pregnancy, your body makes more hormones and goes through other changes, such as weight gain. These changes cause your body's cells to use insulin less effectively, a condition called insulin resistance. Insulin resistance increases your body's need for insulin. If your pancreas can't make enough insulin, you will have gestational diabetes.
All pregnant women have some insulin resistance during late pregnancy. However, some women have insulin resistance even before they get pregnant,
Gabby Rodriguez, who is 17 years old, wrote this book to tell about how she did the “pregnancy project”. She had always grew up near poverty and grew up with siblings who were teen moms. Everyone looked at her and believed she would become a teen mom also and nothing more. Her pregnancy project was to fake a pregnancy, which was also her senior project. She used this fake pregnancy to try to make students at her school and others around her to take teen pregnancy serious and encourage those teens to make responsible decisions.
Diabetes is a disease that 29.1 million people have to live with; so what is it? Diabetes is a disease that occurs when a person’s pancreas stops producing insulin. Insulin is a hormone that helps the body use glucose. Insulin is responsible for delivering the glucose from the bloodstream into muscles, fat, liver, and most cells to produce fuel for the body.
In the book “Diabetes among the Pima: Stories of Survival”, the author, Smith-Morris states that more than any other population in the world, an American Indian tribe from the Southwest United States , also known as The Pima have the highest chance of having risks for type 2 diabetes. She also continues to argue in the book that the issue is not just a biomedical mater but something even larger. By living with the Pimas and studying the experiences, daily life, and views of Pima pregnant women over a decade, the author identified factors that are overlooked by research and interventions related to biomedical. In the process of studying the Pimas, the author also learn that both the indigenous population and the health care providers impact the social and cultural aspects in the community. The book took place in the Gila River
What is diabetes? I’m pretty sure that most of you at least once have heard about this disease, but probably not all of you are familiar to what it really is, how it’s caused and how it can damage human’s health. Diabetes is a chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin. Insulin itself is a hormone needed to allow glucose to enter body cells for energy production.
Did you know that one type of diabetes is much worse than the other? Type 1 diabetes causes your pancreas to stop making insulin, and insulin is needed to survive. Type 2 diabetes causes your body to become resistant to insulin. Diabetes is a serious disease that needs to be addressed by everyone. Making healthy food decisions and exercising can help lower the chance of getting type two diabetes or help people control it.
Title: A case of diabetes Subject: Biology Group: 4A Name: Moldir Surname: Bizhanova Submission Date: 28.11.2017 1. Distinguish between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes by comparing and contrasting their definitions, bodily effects (complications), target groups (people affected), warning signs (early signs and symptoms) and current treatments in a table Type 1 diabetes Type 2 diabetes Definition Also called insulin-dependent diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. It is a disease of autoimmune in which pancreas’s insulin-producing beta cells are destroyed, leading to high level of glucose in the blood. (Medical Dictionary 2007) Can be called as non-insulin-dependent-diabetes. The inability of the body to respond effectively
Our bodies take in the glucose and turn it into energy we can then use. When we let glucose in, we are raising our insulin and glucose levels. Insulin is the hormone in people’s bodies that grants glucose access into our bloodstreams. However, insulin keeps our blood levels from raising or lowering, and it stores the fat to use for energy later on. Unfortunately, people have no control over the insulin function, though they do have control over the types of food they eat that contain certain amounts of glucose.
Insulin is a hormone that is made in the pancreas and is essential for us to live. It controls carbohydrates and fat in our bodies, which we consume through the food we eat. For example, glucose is taken up by the liver and adipose tissue to create energy for cells, glucose can also be converted into fat to provide energy when glucose levels are low. Insulin is controlled by when a lot of glucose has been absorbed into our bloodstream, the rise in blood glucose cause the pancreas to release more insulin. Once blood glucose levels return back to normal, the insulin that is being released will slow down.
In order for our body to use the glucose, it must enter into our cells first. The pancreas produces a hormone called insulin, a chemical messenger for the entry of glucose into the cells. As the blood glucose levels rise after a meal insulin is released into the bloodstream and sets process into motion to trigger glucose to enter into the cells. When the glucose enters into the cells the amount of glucose in the bloodstream
It is life threatening and devastating. This is where insulin is made in the pancreas The Cause Of Diabetes Type 1 and 2 The cause of type 1 diabetes is that the body can no longer generate enough insulin. This is because the immune system destroys the cells that make insulin.
Your child could have raised blood sugar. Women who are pregnant cannot
Gaby Rodriguez: Teen Mom? “Throughout life, we are put into boxes to categorize how people see and know us. This is how stereotypes originate, because people would rather read labels on the box instead of taking a look and seeing what’s inside.” (Rodriguez 154). In her memoir, The Pregnancy Project, writer Gaby Rodriguez gives details about how she was able to fake her own pregnancy while also hiding the truth from her siblings, boyfriend’s parents, and her entire community.
Type 2 Diabetes is where the body does not produce enough insulin for proper function or the body’s cells do not respond to the insulin. Gestational Diabetes affects females during pregnancy. These women have very high blood sugar (glucose) levels. (What is Diabetes?) 4.
Gaby Rodriguez spent her senior year with a fake pregnant belly on her body. She was told her entire life that she was going to end up just like the rest of her family: pregnant as a teen in high school. Defying all stereotypes, and working hard to disprove them, she used her year-long senior project to change everyone’s minds. The Pregnancy Project by Gaby Rodriguez is a realistic, eye-opening story that all teenagers should read. One of the things that makes it such a good book is the rawness you feel the whole time.
Symptoms of Low Iron during Pregnancy Iron is the most important element of hemoglobin, which is the protein in our Red Blood Cells and carries oxygen to our body’s tissues. Iron is present in each cell of the human body. It boosts the immune system of the body and so is a very crucial for fighting against infections and diseases. It helps to produce WBCs and aids in producing energy.