Brody states that "When the average fasting level of blood sugar (glucose) rises above 100 milligrams per deciliter, diabetes is looming" (210). A rise in blood sugar level can then cause "an increasing cellular resistance to the effects of the hormone insulin... As blood sugar rises... The pancreas puts out more and more insulin (promoting further fat storage) until this gland is exhausted. Then when your fasting blood sugar level reaches 126 milligrams, you have diabetes" (Brody).
Once Type 2 diabetes actually develops the potentially devastating effects of the disease may include "heart attacks or strokes" as well as "kidney failure, amputations and blindness" (Brody 210). Moreover, other negative effects of the sharp increase in incidents of Type 2 diabetes besides the devastation to one's health and quality of life (at increasingly young ages) currently also include economic and global effects. For example the treatment of diabetes "ranks No. 1 in direct health care costs, consuming $1 of every $7 spent on health care" (Brody 210). And incidents of Type 2 diabetes are also steeply increasing not just in the United States but worldwide (Brody).
Major causes of Type 2 diabetes, then, include excess weight especially around the middle caused by poor food choices and sedentary lifestyle combined, as well as in some cases lack of access to adequate medical care to diagnose and treat the disease. Effects of Type 2 diabetes itself can include heart attacks; strokes; amputations and blindness. Rising health care costs in America and an increasingly diabetes-prone world are other dangerous effects. While some ethnic groups including blacks and Hispanic-Americans may statistically develop diabetes than others, anyone can potentially develop diabetes as a result of bad eating habits and not enough exercise. More awareness and proactive steps by schools; parents, and even children themselves (who could be taught more at a young age about eating healthful foods) could potentially go a long way toward reversing the dangerous…
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Brody, Jane. "Diabesity,': A Crisis in an Expanding Country." 208-211.
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