Are You At Risk For Diabetes?
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Are You At Risk For Diabetes?
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If you are not exercising, if you are overweight, and if you are eating a diet heavy in starchy, sugary goods, you are setting yourself up for diabetes.
When you have diabetes you cells are not getting enough energy-producing sugar or glucose. With Type 1 diabetes you probably lack the insulin you need to regulate the amount of glucose that goes to your cells which results in a high sugar blood level. This type of diabetes is generally found in children and young adults and its source may be genetic or a virus.
With Type 2 diabetes, there isn’t enough insulin present to make it effective. This is the most common diabetes among overweight adults usually in their 50s and 60s. However, children as young as 12 have been reported to have Type 2 diabetes.
It is important to pay attention to these signs because they may indicate that your body is no longer able to control your blood sugar.
Frequent urination
Extreme thirst
Weight loss without dieting
Weakness and fatigue
Blurred vision
Tingling or numbness in legs, hands or feet.
Untreated, diabetes can lead to blindness, heart disease and kidney disease. Your are also more susceptible to infection and your cuts don’t heal as well as they should.Your doctor can test you for glucose intolerance which is a pre-diabetic condition. All this means is that you are not in the diabetic range but you are getting close to it.
You should also know that diabetes cannot be cured but it can be treated. You can live a healthy life when you keep your blood sugar under control. Sometimes just modifying your life slightly can keep your blood sugar levels normal.
Eat low-fat, low-calorie foods.
Reduce the portion size of your goods
Lose weight
Limit the time you spend on the couch and the computer.
Get a yearly diabetes screening from your doctor.
Who is At Risk for Developing Type 2 Diabetes?
Before people develop Type 2 diabetes, a condition called pre-diabetes usually takes place. Interestingly, this condition arrives gradually but usually without warning. There may be no signs of it or the signs are so insignificant that no one pays attention. However, if you are 45 years or older, pay attention, because that is the age when problems with blood sugar control usually begin.
Also known as impaired glucose intolerance by the medical profession, prediabetes is a term that refers to the 41 million people I the U.S. who have blood glucose levels higher than normal but not high enough to be classified as diabetes.Recognizing the importance of diagnosing pre-diabetes because treatment of the condition may prevent type 2 diabetes as well as all those complications associated with type 2 diabetes. Doctors now know that the complications associated with prediabetes, such as heart and blood vessel disease and eye and kidney disease, take place before the diabetes diagnosis is made.
You are at risk for developing Type 2 Diabetes if you fall within one of these categories:
Have a family history of type 2 diabetes;
You are a woman who had gestational diabetes or had a baby weighing more than 9 pounds;
You are a woman with polycystic ovary syndrome PCOS;
You are African American, Native American, Latino, or Pacific Islander, minority groups that are more affected by diabetes;
You are overweight or obese especially around the abdomen;
You have high cholesterol, high triglycerides and high blood pressure;
You are inactive;
You are over 70 because as people age they are less able to process glucose the right way.
Treatment for pre diabetes
Eat a healthy diet and lose weight
A 5 percent to 10 percent reduction in weight makes a huge difference.
Exercise at least 30 minutes for 5 days a week. You can split the activity up into shorter periods. Select an activity you enjoy so you will stay with the exercise.
Stop smoking.
Treat high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
In other words, choose a healthy lifestyle and stay with it.
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