http://simplenaturalandhomeremedies.blogspot.co.uk/ Have you ever wondered where we got the name diabetes mellitus and what it means. This video will open your eyes to what diabetes means and how it affects the body.
Below is a transcript of the video above:-
Hello, it was about 2000 years ago that the ancients recognized that there were some people, not everybody, but some people had sweet urine. They recognized this because if the urine spilled on the ground the ants were attracted to it. They called the disease as diabetes mellitus. Diabetes because that’s the Greek word for fountain and mellitus because that’s the Latin word for sweet or honey. So, its honey fountain or we call it diabetes mellitus or sugar disease. So, if you would like to learn something about this sugar disease we will be talking about this during this program and we hope you’ll join us.
Welcome to Help Yourself to Health with Dr. Agatha Thrash of Uchee Pines Institute. And, now here is your host, Dr. Thrash.
Now, diabetes is actually two separate diseases. One, we call it type I diabetes and the other we call type II diabetes. Those we used to say, we used to call them juvenile diabetes and the adult onset diabetes. Now, we don’t actually refer to them anymore by those terms because we recognize now that some adults can get that what we used to call juvenile diabetes and now with overweight being so prevalent among children we’re now seeing the type II diabetes very frequently in small children. And, so we now refer to them as type I and type II, but there are two separate diseases and have totally different ways, so they express themselves in the blood test.
Now, in order for us to fully understand about this, we of course would like to know something about how the blood sugar is handled in the body. And, just what we can do to make the body better able to handle sugar. When sugar builds up in the bloodstream that causes an irritative problem to blood vessels. Sugar itself is what we might call an irritant in the blood. And insulin while it’s essential to life as sugar is also. While insulin is essential to life, we cannot function without it. If we get too much then we can look at it in lay terms as an irritant. And, it causes a number of problems for the body. One of which is overweight that’s one reason for that is, that it’s a very good appetite stimulant. So, as it goes higher in the bloodstream, the person has more-and-more appetite. So, if they see something they like and they don’t have habits that are very strict and make it so that they will not eat at certain times and will not eat certain things that they know to be unhealthful. They don’t have those habits well ingrained then because of the surge of appetite that comes with the high insulin levels they tend to overeat and to eat too frequently. And to be willing to eat foods that are very sweet, they tend to have a very good appetite for foods that are very sugary or very salty or very fatty and all of those tend to promote more appetite and also tend to promote overweight.
