YJT Task 1 Presentation Plan:
A. Purpose: The purpose of this presentation is to persuade people who are pre-diabetic or have diabetes, to consider drinking apple cider vinegar, as an alternative to lowering blood sugar. The goal is to get more diabetics to use this natural remedy as part of a healthy lifestyle to managing diabetes.
B. Audience: The ideal audience for this presentation would be those with diabetes, or those who are in the pre-diabetic stage. The topic at hand of discussion would also be appropriate for any person regardless of age, race, or health status, due to the fact that anyone could develop diabetes.
C. Significance: This topic is important for my chosen audience because managing the components of diabetes can
ACV has similar actions to most diabetic medications, which block the body’s ability to digest sugar and starches which in return regulates blood glucose levels (Hills, 2012).
III. ACV improves insulin sensitivity
a. Insulin sensitivity is the resistance to the hormone insulin, which causes increasing blood glucose. Research has shown that insulin sensitivity improved when 20g of AVC was ingested by diabetics with varying degrees of insulin sensitivity (Johnston, Kim & Buller, 2004).
b. On average 20g of ACV can improve insulin sensitivity by 19-34%, when taken before consuming a high carbohydrate meal (Johnston, Kim & Buller, 2004). IV. Conclusion
A. Restatement of the Thesis: Drinking apple cider vinegar daily is beneficial to people with diabetes, because it lowers blood glucose and improves insulin sensitivity.
B. Summary of main points:
1. Apple cider vinegar has been proven to lower blood glucose.
2. Improvement in insulin sensitivity has been a result of drinking ACV.
C. Closing comments ACV is a simple inexpensive remedy to help along with the management of diabetes. With the health benefits it can offer to pre-diabetics and diabetics, why not give it a try? Visual Aid: ACV lowers blood glucose
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For this evaluation of a clinical practice guideline I chose to evaluate a guideline that was published in 2012 and that addressed the use of oral medication in the treatment of Type 2 Diabetes (Appendix B). People who have received a diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) are facing a long term treatment plan. Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder that results from a problem with insulin in the body. T2DM is growing in prevalence and is a cause for concern. There are several co-morbidities that can be linked to poorly controlled blood sugar levels such as cardiovascular disease, peripheral vascular disease, renal failure, and a decrease in eyesight. If blood sugar levels can be maintained at a normal to near normal limits the patient has a decreased risk of experiencing these comorbidities. Because of this it is important for the healthcare practitioner to evaluate all treatment methods available and the evidence that supports the efficacy of recommending this treatment to our patients. I used the AGREE II tool in evaluation of this guideline (Appendix A).
Today I am going to be choosing diabetes for my medical topic. There are several types of diabetes. There is type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes and gestastional diabetes. Our body naturally produce insulin and but sometimes there are cases where are body doesn’t produce enough insulin or does not properly respond to the insulin produced which results in high blood sugar levels. High blood sugar levels is not healthy for our bodies because it can lead to us going into a coma. If this is left untreated it can cause very serious health problems including death.
The incidence of Type 2 diabetes is growing rapidly. There were approximately 2.4 million type 2 diabetics in Canada in 2008/09 (Public Health Agency of Canada [PHAC], 2011), and another 5 million Canadians over the age of 20 with prediabetes in 2004(PHAC, 2011). It is upon this group with prediabetes that this paper will focus. Prediabetes has been defined by the American Diabetes Association as blood glucose levels which are above the normal range but do not meet the criteria for a diagnosis of diabetes (The Expert Committee on the Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus. American Diabetic Association, 2003). While the World Health Organization (World Health Organization [WHO], 2006) uses different cut offs for both impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) the definition remains the same. That is that prediabetes is the state which lies between normal values and those which meet the criterion of a diagnosis of diabetes. While these two definitions differ in some aspects there is general agreement (Lindstrom et al., 2006; Norris et al., 2005; Pan et al., 1997) that it is in this stage of the disease that type 2 diabetes can be reversed. Multiple studies have demonstrated the reversal of a prediabetic state to a normoglyceamic state (Norris et al., 2005). This prediabetic state can precede type 2 diabetes itself by years. It is on this we can focus our attention and effort in to stem the tide of diabetes. This prediabetic state has been shown to be susceptible to several interventions- exercise and diet as well as pharmacological measures. Key amongst these various interventions is the control of the hyperglycemic state and increased sensitization of cells to glucose and pr...
The American Diabetes Association is an organization founded in 1940. It was founded by physicians to help research and find ways to fight diabetes. The ADA now is a large organization that consists of 90 offices in the United States. The main focus of the ADA is to help cure people affected with diabetes and to help provide the best lifestyle for the people through research programs by providing information to the victims, the families of the victims and to the public. The ADA provides a number of programs and activities that are supported by many physicians, research scientist, companies, and communities. The mission for the association is to provide the best life they can for individuals diagnosed with any type of diabetes.
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Specific purpose: To inform my audience about what diabetes is, what causes this condition and its health effects.
Diabetes refers to a set of several different diseases. It is a serious health problem throughout the world and fourth leading cause of death by disease in the country. All types of diabetes result in too much sugar, or glucos in the blood. To understand why this happens it would helpful if we understand how the body usually works. When we eat, our body breaks down the food into simpler forms such as glucose. The glucose goes into the bloodstream, where it then travels to all the cells in your body. The cells use the glucose for energy. Insulin, a hormone made by the pancreas, helps move the glucose from bloodstream to the cells. The pathophysiology of diabetes mellitus further explains the concept on how this disease works. Pancreas plays an important role of the metabolism of glucose by means of secreting the hormones insulin and glucagon. These hormones where then secreted by Islets of Langerhans directly to the blood. Inadequate secretion of insulin results on impaired metabolism of glucose, carbohydrates, proteins and fats which then result to hyperglycemia and glycosuria. Hyperglycemia is the most frequently observed sign of diabetes and is considered the etiologic source of diabetic complications both in the body and in the eye. On the other hand, glucagon is the hormone that opposes the act of insulin. It is secreted when blood glucose levels fall.
Glucose is a sugar that plays a big part in a human’s health and well-being. This sugar is a major source of energy for the body’s brain and cells. The Cells that receive energy from glucose help in the building of the body’s muscle and tissue. Although glucose may be important to the body too much of this sugar can cause a chronic condition called Diabetes. Diabetes, also known as Diabetes mellitus, is a chronic condition that is caused by too much sugar in the blood. This condition can affect all age groups. In fact, in 2010 a survey was taken by the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse, on the number of newly diagnosed diabetes. Out of 1,907,000 people: 24.38% were ages 20-44, 55.17% were ages 45-64, and 20.45% were ages 65 and greater. Diabetes is a very serious condition, and it can be deadly if left untreated. This paper will help better educate the reader on the signs and symptoms, the testing process, and the management of diabetes.
Millions of people throughout the United States are affected by diabetes. It is considered to be one of the leading causes of death. But what exactly is it? What are the symptoms and how do we prevent it? The goal of this essay is for you to understand the answers to these questions, and be able to apply your newly gained knowledge to your own life, hopefully decreasing your risk of developing diabetes.
II. The American Diabetes association, containing health care professionals and staff members from all over the world, wrote an article published in September 14, 2014 describing two conditions when the body’s respond to insulin is crucial.
When working with the older adult population we have many health care challenges. One health concern for older adults is diabetes type 2. Diabetes can be defines as a raised glucose level and symptoms on two separate occasions. Diabetes type 2 is a metabolic disorder where a person shows some, but not complete, lack of insulin verses type 1 in which a person has a complete lack of insulin. The prevalence of diabetes among Americans has steadily increased over the years. “In 2010, 25.6 million Americans over 20 years old were estimated to be living with diabetes, with an additional 79 million estimated to have prediabetes” (Robertson, 2012, p. 225). Without proper education about the disease and how to manage it, the prevalence among our older population is likely to increase. “The epidemic of type 2 diabetes is clearly linked to increasing rates of overweight and obesity in the U.S. population, but projections by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggest that even if diabetes incidence rates level off, the prevalence of diabetes will double in the next 20 years, in part due to the aging of the population” (Kirkman et al., 2012, p. 2342).
In the 1920s, Dr. Frederick Banting discovered that insulin was able to help reduce the sugar level in the blood. There are many health issues around the world, Diabetes is one of them. “Diabetes is a metabolic disease in which the body’s inability to produce any or enough insulin causes elevated levels of glucose in the blood” (Google). There are two principal kinds of diabetes there is type 1 and type 2. “Type 1 is called juvenile diabetes which is a chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin”("Type 1 Diabetes - Google Search."). “Type 2 Diabetes is much more common that Diabetes type 1.However, type two is called onset adult diabetes which is a chronic condition that affects the way the body processes blood sugar”("Type
Within 30 minutes of teaching lesson, the patient will be able to injection insulin properly. The patient will be able to perform self-monitoring of blood glucose using a blood gl...
In conclusion, diabetes is a serious disease and can be life threatening. With the right research and implementation of new studies diabetes can be reduced among the populations. We as a people need to realize this epidemic and all get together and beat it. Restaurants need to stop putting chemicals and unnecessary fats in their food. Not only diabetics but everyone should educate themselves on what is going in your body when you eat. Also, exercising and getting off the couch, in children, needs to be addressed and that alone would help reduce diabetes in the younger population. I can’t stress enough on education. If you know what you are eating or how you are exercising you protect yourself from poor health and live a great life. Type 2 diabetes can be dwindled down with a conscious individual and group effort.
Point blank, diabetes is a serious disease and causes major effects on people’s daily lives. In a society where food comes in such abundance, people are overeating. Compared to the beginning of the twenty first century when only about five percent of the population had diabetes (Nazarko, 2009), today that number is rising and continuing to do so. This is starting to affect the health of children by being diagnosed with diabetes at a young age. When a child has diabetes it becomes very serious since children are at such a young age to deal...