When Can Weight Loss Be a Sign of Type 2 Diabetes?

JAKARTA – Diabetes type 2 can be caused by the body not producing enough of the hormone insulin, or the body not reacting to insulin. Without enough hormones, the body struggles to convert sugar in the blood into usable energy.

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One of the main warning signs of high blood sugar is a drop body weight which cannot be explained. Weight loss is one of the main warning signs of an underlying medical condition.

Losing a few pounds here and there is normal, especially if you stick to a plan diet weight loss. But losing more than 5% of body weight without clear explanation can be caused by diabetes.

Quoting from Daily Express, Tuesday (20/10), diabetic patients are more at risk of losing weight because the body starts burning fat and muscle for energy, in the absence of insulin.

“Unexplained weight loss is a term used to describe weight loss that occurs accidentally and could be a warning sign of diabetes,” wrote the medical site. Diabetes.co.uk in its site.

In people with diabetes, insufficient insulin prevents the body from getting glucose from the blood into the body’s cells for use as energy. When this happens, the body begins to burn fat and muscle for energy, leading to overall weight loss.

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