Diabetes mellitus has been the usual illness that impedes U.S. citizens' life. An estimate of 16 million were traced to have diabetes and most of them, around 5.4 million are not aware about this common illness. For the past century, diabetes was found out that it highly increased among Americans. Based on researches, diabetes is one of the common factors that causes United States' death rate annually. Aren't you aware about that? Why do we have to wait to be diagnosed first before we start preventing it and be sorry after all? Take time to read this full article to become more aware about diabetes, diabetes symptoms and how we can prevent it.

Insulin is a hormone which, if not enough, it will lead you to diabetes. This hormone is responsible about converting starches, sugar and other food that we eat into body energy. You can already specify that you are positive with diabetes mellitus if your blood sugar or glucose elevated frequently. Hormones such as insulin and glucagons aid our body to sustain a regular level of blood sugar (glucose). Our liver is being aided by glucagons on the production of glucose from the cells going to our blood to make body energy.

Here are the various types of diabetes:

1. Diabetes - Type 1

2) Type 1 diabetes

3) Gestational diabetic issues

The two common type of diabetes hamper the comfortable life of many people. Fats and proteins becomes the substitute for producing body energy when glucose stopped completely from working or breaking down. Because of this malfunction in our system, diabetes symptoms take place such as extreme thirst (polydipsia), urinating frequently (polyuria), eating a lot (polyphegia) and extreme weight lose which can be the start of having diabetes. We can identify that a person has a normal blood sugar if it is 70 mg/dl to 110 mg/dl at the state of not eating anything on the time that your blood sugar was tested. Blood sugar which is less than 70 mg/dl is called Hypoglycemia and Hyperglycemia if it exceed from 110 mg/dl.