How Do Carbs, Insulin, and Diabetes Connect?

Diabetes is the inability to make and use insulin. If your pancreas cannot produce insulin, the glucose that enters your bloodstream cannot be taken to your cells. If glucose stays in your blood, you will have little energy to perform your routine activities, which can cause fatigue and other diabetic-related symptoms.

Besides these, consistent, uncontrolled high blood sugar levels can damage blood vessels carrying blood to and from different organs in your body, thus eventually damaging these organs. Other complications of diabetes may include nerve dysfunction, vision problems, kidney disease, and heart problems.

Though insulin shots can provide enough insulin to regulate your blood glucose level, you must limit your intake of sugary and carbohydrate-rich beverages and foods to manage your diabetes.

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