B3.3.2 - Controlling Blood Sugar

Question 1

How do blood sugar levels rise?

Answer 1

Digestion releases glucose into the bloodstream

Question 2

What are the effects of high blood sugar levels for a long time?

Answer 2

Body systems will be damaged (mainly nerves and blood vessels)

Question 3

What can you do to drop blood sugar levels?

Answer 3

Exercise

Question 4

Why does exercise cause you to drop blood sugar levels?`

Answer 4

Exercise means that the body needs to transfer more energy and therefore use more glucose

Question 5

What releases insulin?

Answer 5

Pancreas

Question 6

What does insulin stimulate and why?

Answer 6

It stimulates the liver to to turn glycogen into glucose

Question 7

How does the liver turn glycogen into glucose?

Answer 7

Through enzyme-controlled reactions

Question 8

What is insulin?

Answer 8

A hormone released from the pancreas

Question 9

What other hormone does the pancreas release that isn’t insulin?

Answer 9

Glucagon

Question 10

When will the pancreas release glucagon?

Answer 10

When the blood glucose concentration is too low

Question 11

What does glucagon do?

Answer 11

It stimulates the liver to turn glucose into glycogen

Question 12

How are insulin and glucagon used to maintain blood sugar levels?

Answer 12

Insulin is used to drop blood sugar levels while glucagon is used to increase blood sugar levels

Question 13

What is diabetes?

Answer 13

When your blood sugar levels are always high

Question 14

Is diabetes curable?

Answer 14

No

Question 15

What can people with Type 1 diabetes not do?

Answer 15

Produce insulin

Question 16

How do people get diabetes Type 1?

Answer 16

When their own immune system destroys the pancreatic cells that produce insulin

Question 17

How can diabetes Type 1 be controlled?

Answer 17

Regular insulin injections and a balanced diet

Question 18

When is diabetes Type 1 most common?

Answer 18

Childhood

Question 19

What can people with Type 2 diabetes not do?

Answer 19

Effectively use insulin

Question 20

What are the effects of diabetes Type 2?

Answer 20

Yours cells can’t produce enough insulin or your body cells can’t respond properly to insulin

Question 21

When is diabetes Type 2 most common?

Answer 21

Later in life

Question 22

What health issue is diabetes Type 2 linked to?

Answer 22

Obesity

Question 23

How is diabetes Type 2 controlled?

Answer 23

Insulin injections, drugs to stimulate the release of insulin, and regulating a person’s carbohydrate intake to their exercise levels, as well as losing weight