Research Paper draft

The human’s health is commonly affected by new diseases that are rising every year, affecting the world’s population by large numbers. In our society, it is helpful to be aware of this disease most importantly when the majority of habitants do not know how does diabetes functions and how does it affects the internal system. It is extremely important for a citizen to have a detailed knowledge of the America’s # 1 disease.

   Everybody has at least one person they know who suffers from diabetes. It is a disease that spreads rapidly and silently among humans. Before we can discuss the prior aspect of diabetes which is its consequences, we need to understand how it appears in our systems. Diabetes is a disease based on high contents of sugar inside the blood. Insulin, a liquid located in the pancreas, its function is to control blood sugar contents in our bodies. When the pancreas is not producing enough or is resistant to insulin that is when the sugar levels rise up having as a result diabetes in the blood. Diabetes is categorized in three types; type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes is present mostly in children of 15 and younger age. This type of diabetes is more complex than the other types because it is often diagnosed when the person is older and when there is little treatment to take into action. Atkinson Mark in his Estimating the Cost of diabetes type 1 in the U.S.A., states that, “We find that each year type 1 diabetes costs this country $14.4 billion in medical costs and lost income. In terms of lost income, type 1 patients incur a disproportionate share of type 1 and type 2 costs.” In this quote we can see how the author explains that the in the United States, people who suffer from diabetes need to spend a highly amount of money in order to sustain their own health status. Unfortunately the cause of this type of diabetes is still unknown and therefore it is more complicated to look for a possible treatment or cure.

Type 2 diabetes is more common than any other type. In this stage the glucose levels, which is a type of sugar that gives energy to the body, are not kept in normal levels due to the lack of insulin produced by the pancreas. This type of diabetes can be caused by genetics inherited by the person’s ancestors, but a major factor of getting this type of diabetes in specific is the daily ways the communities are accustomed to develop, some examples are eating habits, lack of exercise and overweight.     

The Gestational diabetes is very rare and it is developed inside a woman’s blood when she is pregnant even though she did not suffer the disease before the pregnancy. The most dangerous outcome of this type is that most women always stay with the disease afterwards, having possibilities of developing other diseases that are influenced by diabetes, like high blood pressure, hypertension, obesity and many other health complications.

We can see how there is much more than just the simple word diabetes. People are underestimating the concept of diabetes, and in order to fully understand diabetes, people who are affected with the disease should know this kind of information, and that way learn how to live more comfortably under the diseases' disadvantages.    

           

Foodborne Disease

During my chapter 9 reading process I came across an issue that caught my attention, the extreme number of people getting sick by a foodborne disease. American families have meat as the prior dish on the table, but most of the time these families are unaware of the internal meat composition. According to Schlosser, page 195 “every day in the United States, roughly 200,000 people are sickened by foodborne diseases, 900 hospitalized, and fourteen die.”  These people most likely didn’t know that they were consuming infected meat, therefore continued to eat it through the days. This arises a problem because us, as meat consumers, might have just eaten a piece of meat that was infected by in this case a low percentage of foodborne, and might not have a severe negative consequence in our health, but families around the USA have to face this probability every time they wish to eat meat.

A positive outcome of this problem is that it may bring distrust when it comes to buying meat from any company, but unfortunately people might realize this issue when the problem is directly related to them, friends or relatives. I make this statement because sadly people know about the existence of meat diseases and yet are still buying the products from the same company or don’t take time to research their new company of choice. Further complications may also arise from this intoxicated meats, According Schlosser on page 196, “There is a strong evidence not only that the incidence of food-related illness has risen in the past few decades, but also that the lasting health consequences of such illnesses are far more serious than was previously believed.”  This quote is very important because it shows that illnesses’ consequences do have a greater negative outcome in the future, although we might not feel it at the present time. To conclude people should be more cautions when it comes to meat consumption, keeping in mind that there are diseases out there waiting to be consumed by us.