Diabetes is currently divided in three broad categories by the medical community. How insulin is made and used by the body are the deciding factors in describing the three general groups of diabetics. These 3 types are broadly described thusly:

Type 1: No insulin production whatsoever. It's all centered on the insulin organ, the pancreas which has stopped working. Insulin resistance can force early death of the organ or the organ can become inert from a separate issue, such as certain illnesses - for instance, types that look like the flu. Some people have to control their insulin through direct action. This can be done automatically with artificial pumps or monitoring blood sugar levels and adding compatible insulin by injection, if needed.

Type 2: Blood sugar monitoring is required because insulin production and use is abnormal. When you have high blood sugar problems after meals and you react differently to food than normal people (while still not adding insulin), you are considered Type 2 diabetic. Your pancreas can produce several times more insulin than it normally needs, but over time the stress can call cause failure. Until that time, your inability to use insulin well (insulin resistance) stresses the organ. In many, insulin resistance occurs through the combination of being overweight, long term dehydration, and systematic nutritional starvation. If you are obese, the odds of being told you have type 2 diabetes go up. One of the reasons insulin is in great quantities in some type 2 diabetics is because it is being used as a transport mechanism for scavenged minerals and micronutrients, taken from your body structure to enable metabolism, in addition to handing blood sugar.

Insulin is used better with daily exercise - less is needed by the body if you exercise. Many people find that through testing, they are producing less insulin with exercise.

Bodily fluids are slowed by to much insulin - both the fluids inside and outside body cells become thicker. This contributes to poor circulation in the extremities and deterioration of the blood circulation system (heart attacks, strokes, clogged arteries) as well as break down of the nervous system in the hands and feet. The circulatory system is stressed. Doctors are expected to treat a type two diabetic as having had a heart attack because of this added stress.

Relatively new is the type 3 diabetes division. One way of describing it is as combination of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The patient has type 2 diabetes, many with insulin resistance, but the decision has been made to supplement insulin production with additional. Insulin is used the same as Type 1 diabetics, through injections. Why do doctors recommend injecting insulin to type 2 diabetics? Because control of diet, exercise, or oral medication didn't produce blood sugar control. Sad to say, but in some, it is because people don't do what's right for them.

The progress of this disease must be monitored by both the doctor and patient carefully, including insulin injections of any sort. Eating what you want and adding insulin as needed can end up being a disaster, resulting in many fewer years of life and a tremendous amount of suffering that can be avoided. by 2050, half of all the people in the United States will have a version of diabetes as current trends continue.

Diabetes will be diagnosed in 50% (that's 1/2, half, every other person) of the population by 2050. With some work, you can be sure to not have the host of problems that can come from diabetes.