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People who are overweight are more likely to develop diabetes, but once someone is diabetic, how …?

diabetes affects their weight? (I mean the physical effects on the body, no changes in body weight because weight loss motivation.)

Severe cases of diabetes will lose weight. What happens is that cells need sugar in the blood. Blood Sugar is the "fuel" that cells use to manage, repair and grow. Insulin is the hormone that helps move sugar from the blood into cells. Without insulin (or insulin does not), then the sugar in the blood can not enter cells, and therefore the level of blood sugar higher and higher. Moreover, cells, without sugar, think they are hungry. So, they emit chemical indicators "shouting:" We're hungry! "In the case of severe diabetes, the body that is starving to death, because the sugar can not pass from blood to cells! The body then goes into starvation mode, and actually trying to digest! No, fat is very complex proteins, but less. Thus, in the way of starvation the body will try to digest muscle cells instead of fat cells! It is a condition called RHABDOMYLOSIS. This condition – Rhabdomylosis caused by lack of insulin – causing a loss Rapid weight and break into a person with untreated severe diabetes. Here's worse: When muscle cells are "digested", they give toxins called ketones. Ketones are normally filtered by the kidneys. But when Rhabdomylosis settles, there are too many ketones in the kidneys filter. Thus, ketones accumulate in your blood. This is called ketosis. If the level is too high, your blood becomes acidic. This called ketoacidosis. Ketoacidosis causes all kinds of damage to internal organs and can even cause your heart to beat to the rhythm wrong. This will be Of course, eventually result in heart failure and death. Again, the ketones are filtered by the kidneys. The excess ketones also damage the kidneys, which are already damaged by too much sugar. The result is that most patients with DKA and to a renal failure may require dialysis or transplantation. Some patients, unaware of the serious damage that such causes of weight loss will be a time stop taking their medications on why "any weight loss is good!" This is absolutely false, and often fatal! The patient needs to lose weight, but he / she must also maintain a good diet and medication.