Coping with Diabetes Diabetes is a Greek work, meaning to “siphon”. Mellitus, a Latin word, relates to a word meaning, “honey” or sweet tasting. Due to the high sugar content and the lack of earlier testing methodologies, testing the urine did give an indication that the person had sugar diabetes. “Information written on ancient papyrus describes as a disease that caused a person to melt into the lions and the resulting urine to attract ants (…showed first 75 words of 1620 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1620 total…release of certain hormones, glucogan, cortisol and catecholamines. This condition inhibits insulin secretion and increases the production of glucose by the liver from glycogen reserves. Diabetes itself doesn’t kill people. However, those nasty complications such as heart disease and blindness can make things rough. Diabetes depletes the body of vitamins, proteins and minerals. It is very important to get regular check-ups by your doctor so that diabetics can live a normal and healthy life.