Diabetes GCSE

No insulin is produced

• Type 1
• Type 2

how can you prevent Diabetes from happening?

• Eat a lot of fast foods

• exercise

• Eat a lot of candy

• Drink a lot of soda

diabetes is a disease that affects your body's ability to produce or use ___.

• energy
• insulin
• oil

The organ responsible for producing both insulin and glucagon is...

• Liver
• Heart
• Pancreas
• Gallbladder

What is the function of insulin?

• diagnose diabetes

• turn glucose into energy

• help glucose enter the cells of the body

• all choices

Blood glucose is regulated by what hormone?

• Lipase
• Pancrease
• Prolactin
• Insulin

Insulin

• lowers your blood sugar levels
• blocks the sugar in your bloodstream from doing what it is supposed to do
• gives you diabetes

What is diabetes?

• When there is not enough sugar in the blood.

• When you always have a fever.

• When there is too much sugar in the blood.

• When you need more sleep.

Type 1 diabetes is...

• genetic (you get it from your parents)

• when you have it only when you are older

• something you can stop

• when you are fine

Type 2 diabetes is...

• something you only have as a child

• genetic (you get it from your parents)

• when you can eat lots of sweets

• caused by eating too much and not exercising