Diabetes And Physical Activity Essay Research Paper

Diabetes And Physical Activity Essay, Research Paper

Health implications of diabetes type I Physical Activity What is physical

activity. Why do we need physical activity in our lives. Physical Activity and

Diabetes (Epidemiology)

For our seminar topic "physical activity and disease" we chose

diabetes as the focus of our research. Since diabetes is such a complex disease

with many different forms, we decided to focus on diabetes type I. This is known

as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). This type of diabetes includes

people who are dependant on injections of insulin on a daily basis in order to

satisfy the bodies insulin needs, they cannot survive without these injections.

OVERVIEW OF DIABETES TYPE I What is diabetes type I. In order to understand the

disease we firstly need to know about insulin. Insulin is a hormone. The role of

insulin is to convert the food we eat into various useful substances, discarding

everything that is wasteful. It is the job of insulin to see that the useful

substances are put to best use for our well-being. The useful substances are

used for building cells, are made ready for immediate expenditure as energy and

also stored for later energy expenditure. The cause of diabetes is an absolute

or lack of the hormone insulin. As a result of this lack of insulin the

processes that involve converting the foods we eat into various useful

substances does not occur. Insulin comes from the beta cells which are located

in the pancreas. In the case of diabetes type I almost all of the beta cells

have been destroyed. Therefore daily injections of insulin become essential to

life. Health implications of diabetes type I One of the products that is of

vital importance in our bodies is glucose, a simple carbohydrate sugar which is

needed by virtually every part of our body as fuel to function. Insulin controls

the amount of glucose distributed to vital organs and also the muscles. In

diabetics due to the lack of insulin and therefore the control of glucose given

to different body parts they face death if they don’t inject themselves with

insulin daily. Since strict monitoring of diabetes is needed for the control of

the disease, little room is left for carelessness. As a result diabetic patients

are susceptible to many other diseases and serious conditions if a proper course

of treatment is not followed. Other diseases a diabetic is open to:

Cardiovascular disease, stroke, Peripheral artery disease, gangrene, kidney

disease, blindness, hypertension, nerve damage, impotence etc. Basically there

is an increased incident of infection in diabetic sufferers. Therefore special

care needs to be taken to decrease the chances of getting these other serious

diseases. PHYSICAL ACTIVITY What is physical activity. (Bouchard 1988) States

that physical activity is any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles

resulting in energy expenditure. Therefore this includes sports and leisure

activities of all forms. Why do we need physical activity in our lives. Physical

activity and exercise helps tune the "human machine", our bodies.

Imagine a car constantly driven only to stop for fuel. It would be a client for

all sorts of damage, rusting, oil leaking, dehydration and the chances are most

likely it would die in the middle of the road not long after. This is what the

body would be like if we didn’t exercise at all. We would be and as a result of

todays lifestyle many of us are, the perfect target to all kinds of diseases and

infections. For those of us who are carrier of some disease or illness we are

still encouraged to exercise by our physicians if we have the strength to. This

is to help make our organs, muscles, bones and arteries more efficient and

better equipped to fight against the disease or illness. This is our way of

counter attacking. And if we are still healthy then we reduce the chances of

getting an illness or a disease. PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND DIABETES (EPIDEMIOLOGY)

Recently insulin injections have become available to dependant patients. However

in the pre-insulin era physical exercise was one of the few therapies available

to physicians in combating diabetes. For an IDDM carrier to benefit from

exercise they need to be well aware of their body and the consequences of

exercising. If an IDDM carrier has no real control over their situation and just

exercise without considering their diet, time of insulin intake, type of

exercise, duration of the exercise and the intensity, then the results can be

very hazardous to the patient. In the first journal article that I used for this

part of the research (Sutton 1981) had conducted an investigation on "drugs

used in metabolic disorders". The article is designed to provide some

background information on previous beliefs and research conducted early this

century. As well as his own investiga

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