DIABETES

DIABETES

Diabetes mellitus has become one of the most widespread diseases in existence. The amazing fact is that half of the people with the disease don’t even know that they are diabetic. There are 2 types of diabetes one is juvenile diabetes which is also known as type-1 diabetes. And the other is fivefold among which 90% are type-2 diabetes. So it will not be unjust to say that diabetes has reached epidemic proportions.

Diabetes itself is a big problem. On top of it its side effects like kidney and cardio-vascular diseases are the leading cause of death. You may be shocked to know that one-third of the diabetes die due to kidney failure and 4 out of 5 diabetic die of cardiovascular disease. Optical and neurological problems are another major complications developed by diabetes, which ranks diabetes as no.1 cause of amputations and blindness in elderly.

Now you may certainly be curious to know the cause of diabetes. Among various one of the major cause found to date is our food habit. Our body always tends to maintain an optimal level of sugar in our body. For that purpose a hormone named insulin is used as storage hormone. Our food nowadays contain maximum proportion of carbohydrate which consumed requires larger amount of insulin as a result our body develops a irregularity that’s called insulin resistance. Our body becomes less sensitive to our own insulin which means we need more insulin to balance sugar level. Beta cells of our pancreas (producer of insulin) are forced to produce more insulin. And if this process continues for about 20 years then our pancreas deteriorates and stops producing insulin and we then develop diabetes.

Therefore to save ourselves from this epidemic we should not delay in changing our lifestyle. With proper diet, exercise and certain intake of food supplement we can prevent this silent killer. Diets containing food with low glycemic-index, rich in fiber, good protein, unsaturated fat, rich in minerals and vitamins can be really helpful for our healthy living.

30-40 minutes moderate walk a day certainly increases our insulin sensitivity and consumption of certain qualified nutritional supplement rich in magnesium, vanadium, chromium also improves insulin sensitivity and supplement rich in vitamin-E reduces the oxidative stress produced by diabetes.

Finally I assure you that with this lifestyle change non-diabetic will never develop diabetes and diabetic will be freed from drug or insulin dependence.