Part one of term paper
Diabetes is a disease that effects many people all over the world. There are two types of diabetes, Type I and Type II. Both types of diabetes are caused by a break down in the normal process of insulin production and usage. Insulin is a hormone made by the pancreas that is used in the cells to take in sugar (Semple, 13). Insulin was first ...

Part two of term paper
... 80 and 85 percent of diabetics have it. Type II infects over fifteen million Americans (Editorial, 26). First, I wanted to answer the question: How does a person get the disease? I found that it may be caused by many different factors. There are conflicting ideas between sources. The most recent book I used was Diabetes by Carol Semple printed in 1996. On page seventeen, he states that Type II is hereditary. In my oldest source, Diabetes by Sarah Riedman printed in 1980, she stated on page ...