How to Prevent Diabetes
By Bob Sherman
What is Diabetes?
Diabetes involves the lack of capacity to control the level of glucose in the blood. The primary hormone associated with diabetes is insulin. During the digestion process carbohydrates and starches are broken down into glucose. Insulin causes liver, muscle and fat cells to accept glucose from the blood and store it as glycogen.
In type 1 diabetes insulin is no longer produced by the body. In patients with Type 1 diabetes the autoimmune system, for one reason or another, destroyed the insulin producing cells of the pancreas. Patients must take insulin for the rest of their lives, normally via injection, in order to control glucose in the blood.
In type 2 diabetes patients produce insufficient insulin or are insulin resistant. They may require external insulin, though nutritional and lifestyle alterations as well as medications often help manage symptoms About 55% of individuals with type 2 diabetes are obese and 80% are overweight. It is the increased fatty acid mobilization that gives rise to an increase in insulin resistance. Visceral fat around the abdomen that surrounds internal organs plays a very important role. The enormous upsurge in type 2 diabetes along with the western lifestyle and increasing obesity have shown that obesity plays a chief role in inducing type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes can result in life threatening complications. These complications include stroke, blindness, heart disease, kidney disease, and sciatic nerve dysfunction. Sciatica, itself, can produce loss of feeling and movement in your legs. These results are all grave and put at risk your quality of life.
Eating Habits and Exercise are Within Your Control
Type 2 diabetes is increasingly prevalent in our overstuffed and under exercised obese populace. It is sometimes called an obesity disease or a prosperity disease. Type 2 diabetes is seldom found in third world countries where people are poor and can't purchase the highly refined, high fat diets of developed countries.
The occurrence of obesity and type 2 diabetes can be strongly linked to the excessive consumption of processed and manufactured consumables like cookies, biscuits, white bread, chocolates, and ice cream. If you look at the ingredients of many processed foods you will discover refined carbohydrates as sugar in a variety of forms including raw sugar, brown sugar, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, cane juice, dextrose, maltose, and a lot of other ingredients. These ingredients predominantly come from natural carbohydrates with all the healthy fiber and starch removed.
These sugars promptly enter the blood stream and cause insulin production to soar as the body tries to control the sudden increase in blood sugar.
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As the rush of insulin does its job of removing sugars from the blood stream you often feel very weary and sluggish because too much sugar was removed from the blood stream. You then crave more sugary refreshments and this sequence starts once more.
The result of all this refined sugar is that your body converts a good deal of this excess sugar to fat. And, fat increases body weight and increases triglycerides in the blood. This increases the blood pressure and reduces the effectiveness of insulin, finally resulting in diabetes.
There are other lifestyle causes of high blood sugar. Long term stress is a cause of elevated glucose levels since stress itself produces hormones that affect blood glucose levels. Other risk considerations for diabetes include smoking (raises sugar levels in the blood and reduces insulin effectiveness), elevated cholesterol and elevated triglyceride levels, and heavy alcohol use.
Generally, type 2 diabetes is primarily a lifestyle choice. It is by and large avoidable by participating in an exercise program and eating a nutritious diet low in fats and refined carbohydrates. If you are at risk for diabetes, you should talk to your medical doctor and follow a prescribed strategy of lifestyle modifications. This can result in a long and vigorous life.
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