Simple & easy English explanation of relation of over-weight or obesity with Diabetes

If you are not aware of this hormone ‘Insulin’, then I have to tell you some facts in very simple language. Insulin is produced by a few million cells present in our Pancreas, which is always released in response to increased blood glucose (sugar) level in addition to high protein intake. This is the only hormone which lowers blood glucose level. There is no other hormone in our body that will do this. We call this hormone as hypoglycemic or lowering blood glucose hormone. It is also anabolic, which means it builds body tissues.

We are not going into symptoms, signs, or complications of Diabetes, much has already been said elsewhere or we can leave this for some other time, if need may arise. Here, the focus remains on what goes wrong when due only to high weight and increase fat and/or sugar content of our diet leads to diabetes, more commonly known as type-2 diabetes.

Here the word “sugar” needs to be explained a little. Sugar encompasses all the carbohydrates we eat. It does not only mean table sugar or something sweet. Carbohydrates are found in most of the things we eat, e.g. flour, whether wheat, corn or others, rice all kinds, lentils, seeds, etc.

While we develop the habit of eating lots of carbohydrates or sugars and most of the time relatively continuously, it will always lead to the release of insulin to combat the increase in blood glucose levels. Over time, these cells cannot cope with the unceasing burden of being stimulated by increase blood glucose and start to worn out and die, which leads to a state of either insulin insufficiency or altogether no insulin. At times, cells become resistant to the actions of insulin, whose only job is to send glucose into the cells whenever blood level rises. These cells also become fed-up with all this glucose and decrease their production of receptors through which insulin will exert its action. Hence, the body is left in a state where either insufficient insulin is present or no insulin or cells have become resistant to it. In any of the cases, now normal functions of the body are impeded and it has gone into a pathological state of “Diabetes”.

Point of emphasis over here is that if you are eating more carbohydrates than you can burn (in other words: unstylish life), in the presence of insulin all these extra sugars will be converted to fats and will be stored as reserve in usual storehouse of the body, i.e. buttocks, thighs, breasts, and abdomen, etc. When even these are full, fat will find unusual places, e.g. under the skin everywhere in the body, to name one. So don’t be fooled that you are not taking much fat so your diet is better.

So, positive thinking is to stylize this approach and eat as many carbohydrates as one can burn. Let’s talk about this in some other post, but I welcome ladies and gentlemen out there to pour in their knowledge about this and let’s discuss as to how we can achieve this.