Case Study: The Force Awakened Diabetes

Although not effective for everyone but many people have found pharmacotherapy has the ability to stabilize their condition. For most people with diabetes, the most challenging in the treatment plan is to determine what food to eat. There is not a one-size-fits-all eating pattern for individuals with diabetes. The integral role of nutrition therapy in overall diabetes management and has historically recommended that each person with diabetes be actively engaged in self-management, education, and treatment planning with health care provider, which includes the collaborative development of an individualized eating plan. Therefore, it is important that all members of the health care team be knowledgeable about diabetes nutrition therapy and support its implementation.

Diabetes can be treated in three basic ways: by diet, by diet in conjunction with tablets, or diet in conjunction with insulin. Diet serves as an initial control for non-urgent patients. If a person’s diet will have a major effect on glycaemic control, it does so reasonably quickly, within a few weeks of changing

Type 2 Diabetes is a disease that is found in a variety of age groups around the world. This disease is growing at a rapid rate and it is impacting the health of this generation and future generations to come. Diabetes is a disease that impairs the body’s ability to produce or respond to the insulin hormone produced by the pancreas. The insulin allows for the glucose to be effectively used as energy throughout the body. Diabetes causes carbohydrates to be abnormally digested, which can raise blood glucose levels. This means that the glucose is not being taken up by the cells that need it. The cells cannot take up the excess glucose that has accumulated in the blood, so it is excreted through the urine. This can lead to problems with the kidneys, central nervous system, heart, and eyes because high blood glucose can damage the blood vessels of these organs. This diseased is managed by adopting a diet low in fat and high in fiber, increasing physical activity, losing excess weight, and not smoking. If this

Everybody knows that obesity is a big factor in developing type-2 diabetes, and that part of coping with this metabolic disorder is lifestyle change. If blood glucose does not go down, then medicines are introduced. Some type-2 diabetics even have to administer insulin in order to keep their blood glucose levels

Eating right plays a big role in managing diabetes. It can make a big difference in keeping your blood sugar level under control. When building your diet the four main foods to focus on are carbs, fibre, fat and salt. (Nazario, 2005)

Smith health condition is meal planning. People living with diabetes should monitor their daily food intake. This is due to the fact that the body cannot utilize insulin properly and so this leads to high levels of glucose in the blood. As a result, diabetics are encouraged to limit food high in sugar. Other recommendations include eating smaller portions, spread out over the day, being careful about when and how many carbohydrates the person eat, eating a variety of whole-grain foods, fruits and vegetables every day, consuming foods with high fat content, limiting the use of alcohol and finally using less salt to prevent hypertension. (NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney

It is no secret that Diabetes type II is rapidly becoming a public health problem that is attacking epidemic proportions worldwide. In fact, according to an online article by the Washington post titled, “CDC Says Diabetes Numbers Increasing,” Author Stein, Rob claims that the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated that as of the year 2012, approximately 26 million Americans were clinically diagnosed with type II diabetes. Not to be confused type I diabetes however. Type I diabetes is where the body is typically insulin-dependent as beta cells are constantly attacked and destroyed by the immune system. Type II diabetes on the other hand, is where the body, may or may not make enough insulin; a hormone that serves to regulate the movement of sugars into the cells, and if it does make enough insulin, the body tends to not respond to it properly. In other words, one suffering from type II diabetes does not convert sugar into energy, but rather stores it in their bloodstream. This has caused type II diabetes to be the most common form of its type. As a result, those who suffer from type II Diabetes normally result in extra body-fat, hypertension, and high cholesterol.

According to the CDC, type 2 diabetes is responsible for 95% of all diabetic cases in the US. Although it is the most common, it is also the least understood as far as cause or how it 's inherited. The pathophysiology behind it is, unlike people with type 1 diabetes, the bodies of people with type 2 diabetes are able to make insulin. But either their pancreas does not make enough insulin or the body cannot use the insulin well enough. When there isn 't enough insulin or the insulin is not used properly, glucose can 't get into the body 's cells. When glucose builds up in the blood instead of going into cells, the body 's cells are not able to function as they should. Though signs and symptoms sometimes differ from patient to patient, common problems associated with the buildup of glucose in the blood include hypertension, dyslipidemia, inflammation, hypercoagulation, and endothelial- cell dysfunction. Some of the life threatening disorders include, but are not limited to the following:

Diabetes is an illness that affects the way your body handles glucose in the blood stream. Those with type 2 diabetes do make insulin, the hormone that allows cells to turn glucose from food into energy, but the body doesn’t use insulin properly. This results in the pancreas creating more insulin to try to get glucose into the cells, leading to a build up of sugar in the blood

Type two diabetes is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. It affects more Americans than most non-communicable diseases (Healthy People 2020, 2016). This public health issue has an urgency to be addressed and resolved. Several interventions should take place in order to see what works best for prevention and treatment of type two diabetes. Diet and physical activity are two of the most common predicators of type two diabetes. Richard Riegelman’s textbook on public health (2010) explains that the actual causes of death in the United States the second highest being diet and physical activity at four-hundred-thousand deaths (Riegelman, 2010). This gives reason to believe that a healthy diet and physical activity is a good start to the intervention and prevention of type two diabetes.

It is easily known among the overall population that nutrition is very important in maintaining a good state of health. This is especially true for individuals who have type two diabetes. These people that have developed this disease must closely watch the amount of sugars that they consume. This is due to the fact that their bodies do not produce the amount of insulin needed to use or store the increased amount of glucose in the blood that has resulted from the food they’ve eaten (CDC, 2015).

In the United States in 2010, “diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death” and out of all these, “a total of 234,051 death certificates [listed] diabetes as an underlying or contributing cause of death” (American Diabetes Association, 2014). In 2012, “29.1 million people or 9.3% of U.S. population have diabetes” (Center for Disease Contro, 2014). Out of 29.1 million, 21.0 million people are diagnosed and 8.1 million people are undiagnosed. About 25.9% are ages 65 and older and approximately 0.25% is under the age of 20. With the growing number of fast food restaurants opening on almost every corner, these numbers are, sadly, not very surprising. People these days have schedules that are so hectic that they almost always don’t have time to care about their well-being and have such unhealthy lifestyles. With that, serious health complications arise and unfortunately, diabetes mellitus is one of the most prevalent.

If left untreated, serious health issues such as heart, kidney, or nerve disease can occur, and in worst cases, diabetes can be fatal. Fortunately, numerous studies have shown that healthy life styles can help prevent and treat diabetes. Type 1 and Type 3/Gestational Diabetes are difficult to treat and manage other than the injection of insulin. However, type 2 can be prevented and treated with a strict regiment of a healthy daily diet along with exercise; this management would also benefit Type 2 treatment to an extent. It is an undisputed fact that weight management directly correlates to type 2 diabetes along with dietary habits, but of which plan best addresses the disease remains

The report covers the target population, diagnosis, symptoms and treatment of various forms of diabetes. The condition comes about when the blood sugar levels (blood glucose) are too high (Gaw 2008 p. 62). The foods people eat are primary sources of glucose. Insulin play a critical role of helping the glucose (sugar) get into the cells and providing them with energy. History of the disease dates back to 1552 BCE when Hesy-Ra (an Egyptian physician) of the 3rd Dynasty went public about existence of diabetes. He went further to identify possible remedies to those suffering from the diabetes. In 250 BCE, Arateus (A Greek physician) described diabetes as "the melting down of flesh and limbs into urine." The Greek physician would successfully develop the first complete medication in c 120 BCE (Gaw 2008 p. 62).

Management of common prediabetes comorbidities such as obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease, and chronic kidney disease is essential. Therapeutic lifestyle management should be discussed with all patients with prediabetes at the time of diagnosis and throughout their lifetimes. Therapeutic lifestyle management includes medical nutrition therapy (MNT; the reduction and modification of caloric and saturated/hydrogenated fat intake to achieve weight loss in individuals who are overweight or obese), appropriately prescribed physical activity, avoidance of tobacco products, adequate quantity and quality of sleep, limited alcohol consumption, and stress reduction. (Handelsman