Category: Diabetes

Introduction Numerous of studies prove that obesity becomes a worldwide epidemic. Popkin and Doak (1998) state that, in the last quarter of the 20th century, obesity emerged as a worldwide phenomenon in the developed and non-developed countries. It has been observed a huge increase in obesity proportion in many populations around the world regardless the…

Recently in our world, the childhood obesity rate has sky rocketed and is becoming a problem. Nationally, obesity rates of children under the age of fifteen and under is averaged to 20.6% which may not be a high number but in reality, it is. In 1980, obesity rates were at a low of 5% and…

Diabetes is a chronic condition/disease that people can get that will change their lives forever in good and bad ways. Diabetes affects the body by the pancreas either producing the hormone insulin too much (type 2) or by it failing and requiring manual injections of it or the insulin pump to be set to do…

The rate of people who has type 2 diabetes all over the globe is increasing rapidly. As discussed by Wallerstein (2017), an imbalance of the sugar level in the body is the leading cause of diabetes. In the case of type 2 diabetes, the human body cannot respond to insulin, which is referred to as…

Obesity is normally caused by eating too much food and not working it off. If you digest a lot of fats and sugars but dont work it off by exercise and physical activity, the energy will be kept in your body as body fat and that is how you put on weight. The lifestyles people…

Diabetes is one of the leading diseases affecting 171 million people and most of the patients suffer from type II diabetes (Gershell, 2005). As type 2 diabetes mellitus is increasing day by day and accounts for 9 % of deaths, there is an urgent need to find out new potential therapeutic agents. The treatment for…

With there being a drastic increase in the number of cases of type 1 diabetes, there is a serious impact on the ethical and social issues regarding this disease. Diabetes is a hidden disease, one that is not always visible or recognizable. Diabetic patients are often not given the necessary attention and or assistance that…

Diabetes is a lifelong chronic illness that affects millions of Americans, African Americans in particular. In the years prior, a diagnosis could be devastating along with the health complications that follow. A person with diabetes would forever be tied to multiple prescription medications, insulin, syringes, and constant finger sticks to determine their blood sugar levels…

Abstract According to global ranking, Pakistan is on 7th number. 6.6% adults in Pakistan have diabetes and it is believed that in 2030 around 14 million people will have diabetes. People with foot ulcers, no knowledge of diabetes and specifically young children diabetes are of major concern in the plan of action presented by international…

Abstract Beneficial effect of plants in treatment of diabetes is well-known in traditional medicine and confirmed in numerous scientific studies. The basic platform for testing potential antidiabetic activity of traditionally known plants and their bioactive compounds are experiments in vitro. These assays usually measured enzyme inhibitory activity such as ±-amylase and ±-glucosidase controlling starch breakdown…