1. DIABETES

2. What is Diabetes?
A disease that affects how the body uses glucose (the bodies main source of fuel). Both (type 1&2) cause high blood sugar.
What should happen…
You eat
Glucose from food enters blood stream
Your pancreas makes hormone called insulin
Insulin helps glucose get into the body’s cells
Your body gets the energy it needs

3. The body can’t make insulin.
Type 1 Diabetes
The body can’t make insulin.
Without insulin the glucose can’t get into the cells
Glucose stays in the blood causing high blood sugar.

4. Type 1 Diabetes No one know for sure what causes it.
It can’t be prevented.
The pancreas can’t ever make insulin again.

5. Type 1 Diabetes Signs
Pee a lot (body’s way of getting rid of extra sugar)
Drinking a lot (make up for all the peeing)
Eating a lot (body is hungry for energy it can’t get from sugar)
Weight loss (body starts to burn fat and muscle for fuel)
Feel tired all the time

6. Living with Type 1 Diabetes
Check blood sugar a few times a day
Inject insulin or use an insulin pump
Eat balanced, healthy diet – pay attention to amounts of sugar & starches
Regular exercise
Regular checkups
***if you inject insulin you need to eat so blood sugar doesn’t get too low

7. Body still makes insulin but the body doesn’t respond normally to it.
Type 2 Diabetes
Body still makes insulin but the body doesn’t respond normally to it.
Glucose is less able to enter the cells and supply energy
The pancreas detects high blood sugar and makes more insulin
Eventually the pancreas wears out.

8. Type 2 Diabetes Who is at Risk? Being overweight
People with family history
Inactivity
Race/Ethnicity: Native Amer., African Amer., Hispanic/Latino, or Asian/Pacific Islanders more likely to get type 2.

9. Preventing Type 2 Diabetes
Lose excess weight
Reduce the amount of fat and calories consumed
Exercise moderately most days for 30 to 60 minutes.

10. Type 2 Diabetes Signs
Pee a lot (body’s way of getting rid of extra sugar)
Drinking a lot (make up for all the peeing)
Feel tired all the time
Dark ring around neck that won’t wash off.
Thick, dark, velvety skin under arms, between fingers, toes, elbows, & knees.

11. Living with Type 2 Diabetes
Eat balanced, healthy diet – pay attention to amounts of sugar & starches
Regular exercise
Take insulin or other meds that helps the body use insulin more effectively.
Check blood sugar regularly
Regular doctors visits