Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism. Metabolism is an internal process to convert food for energy and growth. The main types of diabetes are type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and gestational diabetes.

Diabetes affects 18.2 million people - 6.3 percent of the U.S. population. It is the leading cause of death and disability. It costs the U.S. government approximately $132 billion per year. Anybody of any age can get diabetes.

People are more prone to diabetes with a family history of diabetes and over weight. Type 2 diabetes usually affects older people, overweight and sedentary people. Type 2 diabetes is most common and is found in 90-95 percent of people.

What causes diabetes type 2?

Digestion and assimilation of food are the main processes of our digestive cycles. Blood transports the glucose throughout our body. This glucose provides energy for immediate consumption and also stores as future storage. If there is any imbalance in metabolism, glucose converted into fat and stored into fat cell.

In order to transform glucose into energy, cells require a hormone called insulin. Insulin is produced by the islets of Langerhans present in the pancreas. The pancreas produces sufficient amount of insulin, but the cells of the body cannot utilize the insulin due to some unknown reason. This inability to utilize the insulin by the cells is known as insulin insufficiency.

Over several years, the pancreas due to non-utilization of insulin stops or reduces its production of insulin. The glucose remains in the blood unutilized, and increases the level of sugar in the blood. Your cells are not getting required energy. Extra glucose is taken up by the urinary system and thrown out of the body along with urine.

Thus the main fuel of the body is thrown out while the cells desperately needing glucose, starve and become weak, causing fatigue, nausea, and vomiting besides other complex conditions like vascular degeneration, nervous tension, renal failure, diabetic retinopathy, gum infection, necrosis of cells of extremities requiring amputation, and ischemic attacks including but not limited to myocardial infarction.

Type 2 diabetes increases your risk other serious complications. Some complications of type 2 diabetes include: cardiovascular disease, retinopathy, nerve damage, and kidney problem.

Do I Have A Type 2 Diabetes Symptom?

So, how do you know if you are having type 2 diabetes symptoms? After all, almost 6 million Americans are type 2 diabetics and do not even know about it. How is that possible? What may be happening is that they associate the type 2 diabetes symptom as an illness of another kind, or they may be at the beginning stages of the disease. In case you suspect that you have a type 2 diabetes symptom, there are other things that need to be considered.

The most typical symptoms are increased thirst or hunger, weight loss, fatigue, increased urination, blurred vision and sores that do not heal by themselves.

If you are in good physical condition and have less than 45 years of age, it is quite probable that these symptoms are related to another illness. Nevertheless, if you are overweight and/or over 45 years of age, you should make an appointment with your doctor and tell him about your worries. It may be nothing, but it is better to attack type 2 diabetes symptom at the beginning.

Early detection of diabetes based on the symptoms or regular check up with Diabetes Prevention Centre can prevent further damage of your internal organs by proper medication. Research has demonstrated that people at risk for type 2 diabetes can prevent or delay developing type 2 diabetes by losing a little weight. The research results showed that moderate diet changes and exercise can delay and prevent type II diabetes