‘A symptom of undiagnosed type 1 diabetes is weight loss — but once that person goes onto insulin they put on weight, and that can be hard to handle,’ says Cathy Moulton, clinical adviser at the DUK charity. Not taking adequate insulin leads to long-term health problems. When the body cannot access sugars from food, it starts to break down fat and protein, leading to by-products called ketones, which are toxic to the body. This can lead to complications including blindness and kidney failure"
The facts.
Ketosis/KetoacidosisDiabetics, and even some health professionals, often confuse two quite distinct metabolic processes - ketosis and ketoacidosis. Ketosis is a perfectly natural and healthy state during which the body uses stored or dietary fat for fuel. In order to enter this state, carbohydrate intake needs to fall below a certain level. Ideally, a healthy metabolism should regularly use ketosis, while fasting overnight for example, to fuel the body's processes and utilise stored fat reserves. Most of the body's organs, the heart for example, in fact run very efficiently on ketones.
Ketoacidosis is quite different and is typically the result of a chronic lack of insulin, not a lack of carbohydrate. With insufficient insulin, the body attempts to fuel itself by breaking down fat and protein stores in an uncontrolled way, a process which results in the blood becoming dangerously acidic. In short, ketosis usually occurs when blood sugars are at the lower end of the normal range, and ketoacidosis occurs when blood sugars are dangerously elevated. Ketosis is a result of low carbohydrate intake, ketoacidosis is a result of inaquate insulin levels.
Eddie
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2090770/My-sister-died-didnt-diabetes-seriously.html#ixzz1kUYOqPkK
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