”Modern Diabetes Affecting Many Business Men" （２）
“Modern Diabetes Affecting Many Business Men”
Food(=whitened foods, white sugar, etc.) → absorbed in the intestines and sent into blood in the form of glucose → insulin secretion from β cells in the island of Langerhans in the pancreas → it promotes the uptake of glucose into cells, and this sugar is burned in mitochondria in cells to provide energy for the activities of the human body → surplus sugar is stored in the liver and muscles in the form of glycogen → the sugar that is still excessive is stored in the form of fat, and a repetition of this process causes obesity → when the excess glucose in blood exceeds the glucose tolerance of the person, it is discarded into urine and the person develops diabetes.
A factor playing a role in this process is a decline in insulin secretion resulting from debility of the pancreas due to chronic overworking of the organ.
Contrary to the diabetes of this type, the largest portion of patients with diabetes that is prevalent in modern society are not fat people who are living idly and eating much. Rather, this disease affects many middle-management business persons in the prime of their lives, who are overstraining themselves in work. Few of them are so fat to be called obese; many are thin and look worn-out. The disease name “diabetes” does not befit these patients, because it evokes the image of a “disease resulting from luxurious eating.” To reflect the essence of the disease more accurately, here we call it “stress hyperglycemia.”
The persons with “stress hyperglycemia” have the following characteristics:
(1) Many of them are middle-to high-aged management businessmen who are working long hours, day and night.
(2) They are not so fat as to be called obese.
(3) Many of them often eat and drink to excess as a means to dissipate their stresses, and like to eat meat.
(4) Because they are working busy every day, they are not taking countermeasures except for taking prescription drugs.
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Food(=whitened foods, white sugar, etc.) → absorbed in the intestines and sent into blood in the form of glucose → insulin secretion from β cells in the island of Langerhans in the pancreas → it promotes the uptake of glucose into cells, and this sugar is burned in mitochondria in cells to provide energy for the activities of the human body → surplus sugar is stored in the liver and muscles in the form of glycogen → the sugar that is still excessive is stored in the form of fat, and a repetition of this process causes obesity → when the excess glucose in blood exceeds the glucose tolerance of the person, it is discarded into urine and the person develops diabetes.
A factor playing a role in this process is a decline in insulin secretion resulting from debility of the pancreas due to chronic overworking of the organ.
Contrary to the diabetes of this type, the largest portion of patients with diabetes that is prevalent in modern society are not fat people who are living idly and eating much. Rather, this disease affects many middle-management business persons in the prime of their lives, who are overstraining themselves in work. Few of them are so fat to be called obese; many are thin and look worn-out. The disease name “diabetes” does not befit these patients, because it evokes the image of a “disease resulting from luxurious eating.” To reflect the essence of the disease more accurately, here we call it “stress hyperglycemia.”
The persons with “stress hyperglycemia” have the following characteristics:
(1) Many of them are middle-to high-aged management businessmen who are working long hours, day and night.
(2) They are not so fat as to be called obese.
(3) Many of them often eat and drink to excess as a means to dissipate their stresses, and like to eat meat.
(4) Because they are working busy every day, they are not taking countermeasures except for taking prescription drugs.
- To be continued -