51. Diabetes - Explained

What is diabetes?

You'd guess my first question: Do you like to consume sweet things? Well, too much of one thing leads to addiction, a bad thing.

When you eat sugar, your body will produce insulin. Insulin is a chemical compound that broadcasts information to your entire body, that there's sugar. Last but not least, sugar is one important ingredient to generate energy.

If you eat sugar a lot, your body will generate a lot of energies. But, how much energy do you use everyday?

There's a limit to how much energy you can use in a day, and so, the body knows how to stop releasing the energy, and store the energy instead. The cells will store the energy in your blood stream.

Now, if you have a lot of sugar stocks, even if insulin broadcasts sugar availability, none of your body cells will respond, as they sense that sugars are all around them already. If you keep this condition, your body cells have become accustomed to ignoring sugar information, and so, all sugars are going to be distributed throughout your blood AGAIN.

You have finally become sweet.

That's how diabetes type 2 is forming up. As for diabetes type 1, causes are still unknown, but the body fails to create insulin. Nothing informs all cells that there's sugar, and the cells don't bother to find out either. (Hey, it's not in their skill sets).

There's also a type 3 diabetes, and it only occurs to non-diabetic pregnant women. Normally, this is because the expecting Mom has sugar stocks in her blood stream, but she isn't sweet yet (not declared as having diabetic yet). Then, she became pregnant, causing all cells to produce twice the energy (for the baby's sake), and the cells somehow overproduce sugar stocks. The baby will get affected and so, please consult to a physician to treat this condition, for both Mom and the baby.

Stay Fit with Diabetes Info

See also:

• Uric Acid - Explained

50. I Wonder If Tarzan Is A Dwarf

When your body contains too much salt, you could suffer high blood pressure. Now, what happens if your body doesn't have enough salt?

  

Salt is an important ingredient in metabolic system. When your body's metabolism runs smoothly, your body will generate energy, which keeps you warm. When you don't have enough salt (actually iodine, a chemical compound exists in common salt) in your body, your body may lose its ability to keep you warm, and you'd experience sudden chills. You might then be afraid of coldness, and feel so fragile all of a sudden.

Don't worry, just treat yourself a good meal (the meal may contain enough amount of salt) to keep you strong, and head to your trusted physician to solve your problem.

Of course, in an extreme condition, you might need salt treatment or a surgery. Consult to several physicians for alternative options and choose natural remedies just to be safe.

If you pass this lack of salt condition to your descendants, your baby might become a dwarf.
I'm so sorry children, dwarf is not a mythical creature, but a kid with slower growth condition, or a kid with insufficient salt or iodine, or a person who suffers hypothyroidism.

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49. Instant Yellow Rice Recipe with Rice Cooker

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of white rice
• 1 1/4 cups of water
• 1 tablespoon of turmeric powder

  

How to Cook:
Mix all ingredients together in the rice cooker. Once the rice is cooked, while it's still hot, give it a stir so the colour is evenly distributed.

You can also add salt, sesame oil, other vegetables, even meat if you like. Don't forget to add about 1/4 cups of water if you decided to add meat.

Stay Fit with Turmeric (one way to clean toxic waste from your body)

48. Leg Massage #6 (Finish)

Massage overall parts of your sole. If you feel painful at a certain area, you should massage that area for until it doesn't feel pain anymore. Yes, you can continue or repeat the massage every day (for until it doesn't feel pain anymore).

For further detail, you can study the above diagram, or search for "acupressure" or "reflexology" on your favourite search engine.