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Type 2 Diabetes Name: Institution: Course: Tutor: Date: Type 2 Diabetes Introduction The type 2 diabetes also known as diabetes mellitus is described as a metabolic disease causing the collection of sugar within the blood stream. The severity of type 2 diabetes tends to vary, whereby some individual patients only call for small changes as far as their lifestyles is concerned following their diagnosis. This is then followed by losing just a little weight coupled with some more exercises in the management of this type of diabetes (Harris & Eastman, 2001). On the other hand, other patients suffering from type 2 diabetes need more permanent therapy that in most cases involves insulin administration as well as taking tablets. The most important thing for many patients worth noting revolves around proper understanding of the disease as well as getting to know what best they need to do to stay healthy (Kuller, et al., 2000). Different from type 1 diabetes, studies reveal that type 2 diabetes takes shape of the adult stage as opposed to type 1 which usually develops at a younger age if not childhood and is associated with the damaged pancreas, thereby the production of very little or no insulin that proves quite vital in the control of blood sugar level. Moreover, in the type 2 diabetes, it is increasingly difficult for the body cells to undertake proper nutrient absorption into the blood stream and insulin utilization (Harris & Eastman, 2001). As opposed to ...