Your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) is an estimate of how many calories your body burns at rest. It represents the minimum amount of energy needed to keep your body functioning, including breathing and keeping your heart beating. Your BMR uses up about two-thirds of your daily calories.
1 Diabetes-related complications include damage to large and small blood vessels, which can lead to heart attack and stroke, and problems with the kidneys, eyes, feet and nerves. 2  The risk of most diabetes-related complications can be reduced.  Regular screening is important to detect complications early.
Whatever the type of diabetes, the negative effects on the body are the same. Excessive sugar builds up in the dogâs bloodstream, and yet the bodyâs cells that need that sugar can't access it. So the âbadâ effects that diabetes causes in the dogâs body are twofold: â¢ Cells are starved for vital âfuel.â Muscle cells and certain organ cells are deprived of the glucose âfuelâ they need for energy.