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  Symptoms of Diabetes

  Increased Thirst & Urination

  As glucose levels in the blood rise, the kidneys attempt to filter it from your blood. When there is too much glucose in the blood the kidneys eventually can’t keep up. The excess glucose is excreted into your urine along with fluids from your body. This causes more frequent urination as your body attempts to expel the glucose. You become chronically dehydrated and the urge to drink more becomes increased.

  Increased Hunger

  Your body needs to utilize insulin to pull glucose into your cells. When you have a lack of insulin, or are insulin resistant, your body can’t store the glucose in your cells. Cells need glucose for energy. Because you aren’t storing the glucose, your body doesn’t have the energy it needs. This translates to increased hunger as the body’s attempt to increase calories for energy. 

  Weakness and Fatigue

  Along the same lines as increased hunger, weakness and fatigue are a result of the body’s inability to properly utilize energy (glucose). Without being able to pull glucose into the cells, the body doesn’t have the proper amount of energy to function optimally. This results in fatigue and weakness. 

  Unexpected Weight Loss

  What happens when the body is excreting excess glucose when you eat? It’s not storing it as energy for later. The body excretes the glucose in urine and decreases the amount of calories that are being absorbed into the cells. This means you end up losing weight as a result since you can’t compensate in calories for what is lost. 

  Tingling or Numbness

  Tingling or numbness, otherwise known as diabetic neuropathy is damage to nerves that arises as a complication of high blood glucose levels. When blood glucose levels are elevated, it interferes with signals transmitted by nerves. In addition, the walls of small blood vessels are weakened, effectively cutting off blood supply to nerves. This usually happens in the outermost extremities, starting with the feet. 

   

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  'Al-Qaeda' Wi-Fi connection delays plane

  The plane, an American Airlines flight bound for London, turned back to the gate in Los Angeles when the hotspot, entitled “Al-Quida Free Terror Nettwork” (sic), was spotted in a list of available connections. The passenger notified a flight attendant while the plane was taxiing.

  Flight 136 had been due to take off this past Sunday at 8pm but was held in LAX for three hours while passengers were told to turn off their electronic devices, ABC 7, an American news network, reports.

  Passengers were initially told that the delay was down to a maintenance issue rather than the discovery of the Wi-Fi network. The plane ended up being rescheduled for Monday at 1pm, with some passengers having to stay overnight in LA before they could board the next available flight.

  "After an hour, (the captain) said there was a security threat and that we didn't have clearance to take off," Elliot Del Pra, a passenger, told ABC 7.

  The flight was taken back to the gate and delayed until 1pm on Monday.

   

  The Los Angeles airport police said on Monday that "no crime was committed and no further action will be taken."

  An American passenger caused his fellow fliers to be detained on board a flight from Philadelphia to the Dominican Republic for an extra two hours earlier this month, after he shouted “I have Ebola!” and had been sneezing and coughing during the flight. He was removed by people in protective suits while a passenger filmed the incident.

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  Woman trampled to death by elephant in Indian park

  A woman has been killed after being trampled by an elephant in India.

  The 27-year-old woman, from Gujurat, India, was trying to take pictures of the elephant in a captive elephant park in Iruttukanam near Munnar in Kerala's Idukki district, when the elephant struck her with its trunk, then proceeded to trample her to death.

  "The couple along with their four-year-old son were taking pictures standing near the elephant," a police official told the Times of India. "Suddenly the elephant swayed its trunk and it hit the woman, who fell down near the elephant's leg. In the melee, accidentally she came under the elephant's feet and was seriously injured.”

  The woman was visiting the park with a tour group of 14 other people.

  The body has been kept in a nearby government hospital and will be flown home tomorrow, police said.

  Jacob Cheeran, an expert on elephants, told the Indo-Asian News Service: "This was purely an accident and not a case where an elephant turns violent. Since the woman fell under the elephant's body by mistake and she was trampled upon."

  No comment has been made by the organisers of the elephant park.