Informative Speech: The Three Types Of Diabetes

INTRODUCTION
As health conscious as our media tells you to be, the truth is that this past weekend you probably stuffed your face with Thanksgiving food. And with Christmas coming up around the corner, you're likely not going to stop stuffing yourself anytime soon. I mean come on, who says no to Gramma's cookies? A lot of people I know like to joke with me that they're getting "diabeetus," and continue to load up their plate with cookies, pies, and cakes. As funny as "diabeetus" is, diabetes is no laughing matter. Today, I'm going to tell you more about this disease, how you can get it, and why you might want to think twice before loading up from the dessert bar for the fifth time.
BODY
I. Kinds of Diabetes
There are three types of diabetes: type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes. Diabetes is essentially a failure on the body's part to produce or use insulin to manage blood-sugar levels. This can happen through a couple of ways: either you are genetically wired so that your body destroys the cells that produce insulin in your body and you literally have to take insulin in order to live a healthy life, or your body produces insulin but cannot use it to fully manage the sugar in your blood. Gestational diabetes is when a pregnant woman has too much sugar in her blood due to the hormonal changes in having a baby.
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Well, blood sugar connects to hemoglobin (the thing that carries oxygen around your body), and weighs it down and makes it stiff and sticky. Not only can the hemoglobin not do its job when your blood sugar is too high, but it can also get dragged down and start building cholesterol in your blood vessels. High blood sugar can cause things such as strokes, heart attacks, nerve damage, blindness, kidney failure and gum disease. Not all diabetics are going to go blind or stop being able to feel things on their skin etc., but the longer they have untreated diabetes, the higher their risk for

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Informative Speech: The Three Types Of Diabetes

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