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To: WhiskeyX

hmmm. What about those who have diabetes who are not overweight?


6 posted on 12/02/2015 9:50:24 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: huldah1776

“hmmm. What about those who have diabetes who are not overweight?”

Diabetes is a hyperglycemic condition where the average blood glucose levels remain in a chromic state of being high enough to cause serious health problems, amputations of limbs, blindness ,and death. There are multiple causes for this condition of excessive blood glucose levels. Diabetes Type I, for example, is sometimes caused by a pancreas which fails to produce normal or any insulin necessary for the cells to metabolize and remove glucose from the bloodstream. Since their insulin levels are typically below normal, those levels of insulin do not cause the hormones which control the storage of fat to store fat instead of consuming and burning fat normally. Consequently, Type I diabetics can maintain normal and less than normal weights. Some pre-diabetics and some Type II diabetics can maintain a normal or thin body for a a period of years, before he insulin levels are high enough to cause the storage of fat and block the burning of fat.


10 posted on 12/02/2015 11:55:56 PM PST by WhiskeyX
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