October 04, 2020
What is diabetes and how can you prevent it?
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What is Diabetes and How Can You Prevent it?
Diabetes is a living-on-the-ground medical condition that kills millions of people every year, and can cause anyone.
This disease occurs when the body is unable to resolve the sugar (glucose) contained in the blood due to its complication due to heart attack, paralysis, blindness, kidney failure and loss of legs and legs. This could pose a threat.
This is a rapidly growing problem and it is estimated that 42 million 22 million people worldwide suffer from it. According to the World Health Organization, this number is four times higher than 40 years ago. In Pakistan alone about one to two million people become disabled every year due to diabetes. According to a recent research, one out of every four people in Pakistan is suffering from diabetes and this number is increasing rapidly.
Not only this, diabetes is also the eighth leading cause of death in Pakistan and the number of victims has increased by 50% compared to 2005.
Despite these risks, the percentage of people with diabetes is unaware that changing daily routines can improve many things.
What is the Cause of Diabetes?
When we eat, our body converts starch (carbohydrates) into sugar (glucose), after which the hormone insulin produced in the pancreas directs our body's cells to release energy. Absorb this sugar.
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| Refined sugar stores glucose in the blood |
Diabetes is triggered when insulin is not produced or does not work properly, due to which sugar begins to accumulate in our blood.
How Many Types of Diabetes?
There are several types of diabetes. In type one diabetes, the pancreas stops producing insulin, which causes the blood to begin to accumulate in the bloodstream.
Scientists do not know what the underlying cause is, but they believe that it may be due to a genetic effect or to a viral infection that causes the cells to make insulin in the pancreas. Ten percent of diabetics suffer from type one.
In type 2 diabetes the pancreas does not either produce insulin as needed or it does not work properly.
Insulin plays an important role in transmitting sugar to energy in our body
This usually happens with middle and older people. However, the disease can also be attributed to younger people who are overweight, lazy, and belong to a particular race, especially South Asians.
Some pregnant women get diabetes during pregnancy when their body is unable to produce enough insulin for them and their baby.
Different studies estimate that between six and 16 percent of women get diabetes during pregnancy. They have to control their sugar levels through diet and exercise, to prevent them from switching to type two insulin.
People can now be diagnosed with an elevated blood glucose level and be aware of the risk of developing diabetes.
What are the symptoms of diabetes?
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Cheap and thirsty can be symptoms of diabetes
Common symptoms
Feeling very thirsty
More urine than usual, especially at night
Feeling tired
Lose weight
Blurred look
Do not heal wounds
According to the British National Health Service, the symptoms of type one diabetes begin to appear in childhood and adolescence and are more dangerous.
Persons at risk for type 2 diabetes are over 40 years old (South Asians up to 25 years old). Any of their parents or siblings are diabetic, overweight or obese, the majority of them are from South Asian owners, Chinese residents, Arabian islands, and Black Africans. Is
Can I Avoid Diabetes?
Diabetes relies mostly on genetic and environmental factors, but you can keep your blood sugar at a reasonable level through a healthy diet and a healthy lifestyle.
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The adoption of a healthy diet is a prerequisite
Avoiding processed sweet foods and drinks and replacing white bread and pasta with pure flour is the first step.
Refined sugar and cereals are less nutrient-rich as they are rich in vitamin content. For example white flour, white bread, white rice, white pasta, bakery goods, soda drinks, sweets and breakfast cereals.
Healthy foods include vegetables, fruits, seeds, cereals. It also includes healthy oils, fruits and omega-3 fish oils.
It is important to eat periodically and prevent appetite from starvation.
Physical exercise also helps reduce the blood sugar ratio. In the UK, the NHS suggests that at least two-and-a-half times aerobics a week or a quick walk or stair climb is useful.
Having a healthy body weight helps to keep sugar levels down. If you want to lose weight slowly, ie half or a kilo a week.
It is also important that you do not smoke and keep your cholesterol level low so that your risk of heart disease is low.
What are the complications of diabetes?
High blood sugar can damage blood vessels.
If blood is not flowing properly into the body, it cannot reach the organs where it is needed. It is at risk of nerve damage which can cause pain and loss of vision. And may have an infection in the legs.
Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart attack, stroke and foot loss, the World Health Organization says.
How many people suffer from diabetes?
According to the World Health Organization, the number of diabetics in 1980 was 80 million, which increased from 42 million to 22 million in 2014.
In 1980, five percent of adults over the age of 18 in the world were diabetic, and in 2014, the number increased to 8.5 percent.
According to estimates by the International Diabetes Foundation, 80% of adults with this condition are middle-aged, from low-income countries, and where eating habits change rapidly.
In developed countries, it is responsible for poverty and cheap processed foods.
Personel Views
I am a diabetic and have been for about eighteen years. During this time, the same thing happened to most of my diabetic patients, that is, diabetes caused other diseases and the stream continued to grow.
But I learned a lot from this disease in these eighteen years and am still learning today. And the first lesson for me is that it's not a disease.
I know you guys will be wondering what this is saying. Somewhere her sugar has not diminished, it has become more. But it's not both. Most doctors or consultants in the West consider it not a disease but a 'condition' that can often be controlled by changing the way they live. Many patients have eliminated it from the root.
I remember when I first came out of the doctor's clinic for a test, and a friend who was waiting there told me that the doctor was saying that your sugar level was at a level where you might have diabetes. So I muttered 'How sweet' from my friend's mouth.
Be assured that this 'How Sweet' too has a lot of control over your disease. That means be happy. You can also be a good 'life partner' with him if you do not mentally dominate him.
Some things I learned
Many people are afraid to get an injection if they are diabetic and insist on the doctor to give them pills. Pills are fine but they are not a direct change of insulin. Insulin injection provides you with insulin that is fast enough to break the dose. Otherwise, sugar can affect your heart, kidneys and eyes, and other organs in your blood. Insulin does not cure diabetes but can 'manage' it.
If you are not really banned by the doctor, then eat whatever you want, but be careful not to overdo it, you are taking the injection and you must do an activity or exercise that you have eaten, ie. Energy should be separate from glucose, etc. which is needed by the muscles and other organs of the body and waste. Sugar should be broken at all costs. If this is not the case, it joins and destroys body parts in the same way.
Keep an eye on diabetes to find out when it is up or down during the day. This lets you create your own routine. In addition, do not sit down to monitor immediately after eating because it can take up to two hours for glucose to break down and the blood to absorb energy into the body's cells.
The good news is that if you eat a healthy carbohydrates and fiber diet, your blood sugar will automatically decrease. Exercise increases the body's insulin sensitivity, allowing it to absorb more blood sugar.
And if you are not high-risk that your sugar does not go down to dangerous levels and you want to fast nowadays, try 'try'. People whose diabetes does not go down very high may like the average person, but for this you should know when your diabetes can fall. And if so, God's will is not your hand in it.
