The Easy Diabetes Diet Plan Cookbook - Learning the Basics

Learning the Basics

There are three types of diabetes – type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is usually diagnosed in children in young adults. It’s the type of diabetes where you need daily injections of insulin because the body simply can’t synthesize any for itself. Type 2 diabetes on the other hand is when your body isn’t making enough insulin to deal with the sugars or the glucose in your blood. It is the most common type of diabetes and usually happens when you are much older.

 At first, your pancreas may produce more insulin to deal with the deficiency but with type 2 diabetes, the body develops insulin resistance. Over time, your body cannot make enough insulin to deal with the glucose levels in your blood. The last kind of diabetes is gestational diabetes and is the only kind of diabetes that can be temporary. It only happens to pregnant women and usually happens around the 24^th week of pregnancy. Because of the lack of symptoms in gestational diabetes, it is important for women who are pregnant to be tested by a doctor so that both the mother and the baby remain healthy. 

In this book, the tips on both fitness and cooking are limited to type 1 and type 2 diabetes. While gestational diabetes is just as serious or even more so because it affects both the mother and unborn child, the treatment is always started very quickly and is always handled by a doctor or another member of the mother’s health care team.

This is an excerpt from the book: The Easy Diabetes Diet Plan Cookbook