Diabetes Facts

Diabetes is commonly called by doctors as diabetes mellitus, refers as a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has a high blood sugar either because of the inadequate production of insulin or the cells in the body doesn’t react properly to insulin or it can be both. Patients with high blood glucose will normally experience polyuria or the frequent urination. They will come to be progressively hungry and thirsty.

As an individual who care about health, here are some facts about diabetes that with should know:

Ø  Diabetes is a continuing illness that causes the high level of blood sugar.

Ø  Two years ago, it was projected that more than 382 million people all over the world had suffer from diabetes.

Ø  Type 1 diabetes - the body doesn’t produce any insulin. Almost 10% of diabetes cases are from type 1.

Ø  Type 2 Diabetes - body doesn’t produce sufficient insulin for its proper function. Roughly, there are 90% of cases worldwide is in the type 2 diabetes.

Ø  Gestational Diabetes - these types of diabetes affects women during pregnancy.

Ø  The common diabetes symptoms include regular urination, extreme hunger and thirst, weight increase, strange weight loss, bruises and cuts that don’t heal, fatigue, sexual dysfunction in males, impassiveness and tingling in hands and the feet.

Ø  If you already have type 1, by healthy eating, adequate exercise, taking insulin can still lead you to a normal life.

Ø  Type 2 patients need to eat healthy foods, be active physically and have their blood sugar tested. They might likewise need to take an oral medication or insulin to control levels of blood glucose.

Ø  For a diabetic person the threat of cardiovascular disease is higher. It is important that the cholesterol level and blood pressure are regularly monitored.

Ø  Smoking can have a staid effect on cardiovascular health so diabetics should end smoking.

Ø  Hypoglycemia or low blood sugar and hyperglycemia or too high glucose both have a bad result to the patient. 

People usually ask if there is any way to prevent or is there a cure for Diabetes? Study shows that tea drinking tea can improve your resistance against diabetes, a disease which is assessed to affect 7.8 percent of the populations in the United States. While scientists haven’t determine yet why or how the tea can fight diabetes, there is an evidence shown that there are compounds found in the tea that can help lower the level of blood sugars. Tea is identified to be rich in antioxidants, which is known to fight oxidative stress. High tea consumption seems to be related with reduced the risk of diabetes according to the report published in the year 2009. From the analysis of the author in the published studies they conclude that drinking over four cups of tea everyday may lessen your possibility of getting the disease. In another study, issued on the same year, researchers found out that high consumptions of tea were associated to reduce the threat to diabetes. 

As to date, there is still insuffient evidence that will support the use of tea in the cure or preventing diabetes. To reduce your risk to diabetes live a healthy lifestyle.

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