Archive for October, 2009

What pattern of heredity does diabetes follow?

Friday, October 30th, 2009

msc44 asked: I know that baldness comes from your mother’s father. How does diabetes travel through generations?Spencer

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Have a Sugar Addiction? About Obesity, Nutrition, Diabetes

Friday, October 30th, 2009

psychetruth asked:

Be My Friend – www.myspace.com Have a Sugar Addiction? About Nutrition, Wellness, Diabetes Because of the American fast food diet, of soda, sugar is consumed in toxic amounts and acts like a drug in the body. This causes hunger, cravings and massive blood sugar fluctuations. This causes health problems, leads to diabetes, obesity, [...]

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What is the metabolic abnormality that underlies the characteristic symptoms of diabetes mellitus?

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Carmen asked: What is the metabolic abnormality that underlies the characteristic symptoms of diabetes mellitus?
A. A failure of the kidney tubules to reabsorb glucose from the urine
B. A failure of the villi of the intestine to absorb glucose from food
C. The body can’t switch from glucose metabolism to fat metabolism between meals.
D. The body’s cells [...]

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