Understanding Diabetes
Across
- 3. this is the name for diabetes that develops while a woman is pregnant
- 4. URINATION
- 6. This macronutrient is the first to be digested in the stomach and small intestine
- 7. person can add these two things to their diet to help prevent diabetes: PROTEIN & FIBER
- 8. this means that your blood sugar levels are higher than the normal range but lower than the diabetes range
- 11. doing this activity is important for people with diabetes and also to prevent diabetes. It lowers blood glucose levels, and helps insulin work for efficiently.
- 12. Glucose gives THIS to your cells
- 14. DEPENDENT this is the condition where you must have insulin from an outside source, usually delivered by pump or injection
- 15. eating too much of this carbohydrate overtime, typically found in soda and candy, can lead to weight gain and type 2 diabetes
- 16. the hormone released by our pancreas that allows glucose to leave our bloodstream. With type one diabetes, the pancreas cannot release this hormone
- 18. THIRSTY
Down
- 1. When a person with diabetes eats a lot of sugary foods, their pancreas becomes___________.
- 2. a fancy name for sugar in our blood. It is very important for our bodies to survive. If your body doesn’t use THIS properly, it can become unhealthy
- 5. 2- The type of diabetes that is caused by a number of factors including genetics, overweight, high sugar/high fat diet, lack of exercise, among other things.
- 8. The organ that creates insulin.
- 9. levels of sugar, or glucose, in the blood does THIS after eating a lot of sugar or carbohydrates
- 10. TIREDNESS - three signs of diabetes
- 13. Glucose stays here until insulin allows it to pass into the cells that need energy
- 17. INTESTINE- after eating food, this is where 98% of nutrients, including sugar, is absorbed into the blood