The Diabetes Duo and the Insulin Discovery
The article explains how sugar from foods becomes glucose in the liver, needing insulin to pass cell membranes. It notes insulin is produced in the pancreas by islets of Langerhans located in the left upper abdomen and mentions Banting's early 1900s discovery.
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Langerhans
Sir Frederick Banting
Diabetic Theory in Ontario On Lipocentric Epidemic
A health note explains diabetes types one and two, insulin dependence, and the shift from insulin deficiency to insulin resistance. It links rising diabetes two to obesity and fat metabolism, cites weight loss via gastric banding reducing diabetes two for 75 percent of patients, and calls for lifestyle changes to combat a modern public health crisis with motivational action.
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