Type 2 Diabetes - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Outline 

Introduction: Diabetes is one of the diseases that are widespread in America: A report of 2017 by the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) indicates that, diabetes rate continues to up-surgethus becoming a burden to healthcare. The aim of this paper is to discuss various factors causing type 2 diabetes. 

1 ST Background 

Statistics :According to the report of CDC, as of the year 2015, 30.3 million individuals in America suffered from diabetes, furthermore, 84.1 million suffered from pre-diabetes a situation that could promote type 2 diabetes. 

Type 2 diabetes majorly different from type 1 diabetes since it is connected with insulin resistance whereby produced insulin is either inadequate for body demands or cells are resilient to it. On the other hand, type 1 diabetes is the result of autoimmune-mediated damage of the beta cell in the pancreas thus resulting into shortage of insulin. 

Causes of Diabetes Type 2 : 

Dietary factors 

Access to fast food 

Environmental and lifestyle factors 

Sedentary lifestyle. 

Center for Diseae 

Control and Prevention. (2017). New CDC report: More than 100 million Americans have diabetes or prediabetes . Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p0718-diabetes-report.html 

2 nd :Literature Review 

Dietary factors : Dietary factors are some of the major causes of type 2 diabetes; this can be connected to access of fast food by people. High animal fats and protein in foods from fast food outlets causes the increase of type diabetes among people. 

Environmental and lifestyle factors: Environmental and lifestyle factors have also been identified as causes of diabetes type 2 in majorly through sedentary lifestyle; this is the habitual adaptation to a particular life such as changing to the consumption of fast food which promotes obesity as a result of high animal protein. 

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Conclusion: Type 2 diabetes has been identified as one of the non-communicable illnesses that are highly prevalent across the United States. Numerous factors promote its occurrence such as dietary, environment and lifestyle factors.