Symptoms & Causes of Diabetes

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Experience with Diabetes II
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Introduction
Diabetes II
Diabetes type II, also known as diabetes mellitus disorder is a common illness with a prevalence
of more than 80% among the aged individuals. The chronic disease has been considered a world
epidemic today especially in the aging population in Australia and other developing counties,
adding a heavy burden, for its control measures (Chatterjee et.al 2017 p 2239). Diabetes mellitus
occurs when the body resists glucose regulation by the insulin or when the pancreas produces
insufficient insulin for regulation of the blood glucose which is a result of impairment of the Beta
cells that regulate the production of insulin in the pancreas (Zhou et.al 2017 p. 282). The
progression of the chronic disorder gets worse over time as it leads to the risks of various body
complications such as myocardial infarction and stroke. The most contributing factors of the
disease are diabetes, genes history, and age as it lowers the immunity.
Blog 1
Background
Being indigenous of the Australian culture – (Aboriginal as it is what we are referred to) we have
been considered to be the most vulnerable to this so-called chronic disease, and to be specific say
diabetes II. It is true as they suggest, most individuals in our tribe especially people of the Torres
Strait Islander live with this disease over the years, and we have been burying them day and
night. As they say (health researchers) our community is prone to the diabetes illness due to the
poor traditional lifestyles of our ancestors.

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Blog 1-21st December
Culture and Diabetes
Not that I hate my culture, no! get me right. It is because of these culture that most people in
our community suffer., me included. Our fathers lived by hunting and gathering land animals
such as birds and big animals like Kangaroos. Our mothers then helped by cultivation and
gathering honey, wild fruits, nuts, eggs and goannas (Attwood, 2013 P36). Most of these foods
contained low nutrients and high fat saturation, high content of salt and sugar. What is more, my
community had little knowledge of nutritional measures. Their poor nutrition and dietary
patterns have greatly contributed to the increase in chronic disorders. Being an aboriginal means,
you have to be discriminated against, here in Australia in all calibers, say’ in health care services,
employment, education, not forgetting racism. Limited health facilities for aboriginal., just
because you are an aboriginal. (Markwick, et.al, 2019 p.19) It is for this reason my grandfather
acquired the illness.
He has been living with this illness for the last 90 years of his age, making him suffer terribly.
All the children in his lineage are always advised to go for a diabetes testing as it is always said it
is genetic, meaning most of his children may be careers of the disease (Gupta, et.al 2018 p.483).
Being his hair, I have been ignoring this fact and I don’t feel like going for that test, furthermore,
not a big deal to me even if it tests positive. My father has it, my brother Lawanna has it, so I am
not an exception.
28th January
Visiting Marshal Clinic