On Eating - a row of smithereens about hunger and eating No 13

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shelves of different kinds of soft drinks containing an extreme high amount of glucose: Fanta, Coca Cola, Sprite, Mezzo, active drinks c ignazwrobel
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Last: insulin and blood vessels

Today: blood vessels, nerves and diabetes mellitus II

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This is not an exposé for a horror drama this is very unfortunately the reality of diabetes mellitus type II.

Blood vessels suffering from any damage can´t do their job in a proper way.

There are very fine vessel which may break and start bleeding into the surrounding tissue. If this tissue is a very delicate material like the retina, our own blood destroys our own retina.

Ninety percent of diabetes II patients suffer from retina damages caused by bursted capillary vessels bleeding onto the retina.

If vessels in our brain will burst, we will suffer from series of little brain strokes, some of them so inconspicuous that we can`t distinguish them from a normal headache.

Brain tissue will be destroyed and maybe we are wondering why we can´t find e.g. words or are using the wrong words. If blood vessels in our extremities can´t transport enough blood because they are congested, very often the tissue of our legs will perish, which leads often to the loss of a limb.

Seventy percent of amputations nowadays are due to diabetes mellitus – tendency rising. The congested vessels also cause damage in our kidneys, the kidneys stop working and the consequence is spending four times a week four hours in a hospital getting our blood washed by a machine.

As the damaged blood vessels can´t nourish the fine nerves in our body properly, we suffer from a diversity of losses.

We will loose our ability to hear properly because the acoustic nerv will be affected, we will loose partly our tactile sense because the fine nerves in our fingers will suffer damage – in our feet and legs also.

Unfortunately our heart will be in danger for a heart attack from congested blood vessels.

These are a few examples of the long term issues we have to expect from diabetes mellitus II beside the fact that this disease puts us in a situation of constant life danger. One single day without external insulin supply will cause death.

People around us will think we are heavily drunk if they see us in a status reflecting a rising insulin coma, our movements slow down to slow motion and our speech will be slurring.

For anybody who doesn´t know these symptoms this will be a clear proof we are drunk. – and a few hours later dead, because nobody gave us a portion of glucose into our mouth.

Well, the real face of diabetes is not a Halle Berry diabetes, keeping the person in a wonderful und seemingly completely inaffected status. Slowly dying from real diabetes II is a hell we wouldn´t wish our most vicious enemy to die from.

So – is there a possibility to minimize the danger to collect a diabetes?

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