NTDT200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Overeating, Reactive Hypoglycemia, Glycemic Load

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Nutrition and Dietetics
• Course: NTDT200
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Diabetes mellitus patients waste away to nothing: patients have a problem with regulating blood glucose, normally blood glucose is tightly regulated, can cause complications and damage to other body functions if not monitored and controlled. Pancreas secretes insulin in response to increased blood sugar. Stimulates cell to take up glucose from the blood. Promotes extra glucose to fat in liver and adipose pancreas secretes glucagon in response to decreased blood sugar: stimulates liver to release glucose into the blood, breaks down glycogen into glucose, synthesizes new glucose. Lack of insulin: autoimmune disease, destroys insulin producing beta cells in pancreas, can"t (cid:271)e digestion because hormone would get destroyed. Treatment of type 1 diabetes: disease treated with insulin injection, first human patient was 14 year old boy. Injections discovered in 1921 by dr. banting who injected it into dogs. Treatment of type 2 diabetes: risk factors, obesity, physical inactivity, lifestyle.