You Tube Video: Diabetes Made Simple - Essay Assignment

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Diabetes Made Simple: Essay Assignment
From the video, during digestion, carbohydrates are broken into sugar, which is also known as glucose. In a normal digestive system, sugar travels through the blood stream to the body’s muscle and fat cells through the help of insulin to ensure normal body functioning. However, in a person with diabetes, there are two possibilities. Either
The pancreas is not able to produce enough insulin to match the sugar in the bloodstream or
The body cells are not receptive of the insulin that is being produced.
In both of these cases, sugar concentrates in the blood stream leading to a rise in blood sugar. Once this occurs, the body cell...