Healthy lifestyle to avoid diabetes

Healthy lifestyle to avoid diabetes
Source: Daily News, Thursday, May 19, 2011
By: Mona Ahmad

Sweetness of cakes and flavored drinks and carbonated certainly whet your appetite. There is no doubt that sweet food because of its tasty choice.

But despite its tasty, it can affect the health and invites many diseases if it is taken in excess.

Processed foods and sugary foods such as chocolate cake and ice cream contain a lot of sugar which gives a large amount of calories without nutrients or fiber.

The presence of sugar also replace nutritious foods and get rid of some vitamin and minerals from the body.

Eating excessive sugar means you bear the risk of tooth decay, obesity and other problems associated with diabetes, heart attack and so on.

Until now incapable of fully cured diabetes but with good management, blood sugar levels can be controlled once the complications of diabetes can be delayed.

Without proper management, diabetes will be a trigger to a variety of potentially fatal complications. Therefore, not strange when the majority of factors involving patient deaths are complications of diabetes makrovaskular.

Makrovaskular complications are common among people with diabetes.

According to the study, five years ago (2010) estimated that 171 million people with diabetes disease, a progressive and serious disease that can reveal the sufferer to a variety of health problems and complications, including blindness, amputation and kardiavaskular disease (CVD).

By 2030, the number of patients with diabetes or known also as diabetes is expected to double. Diabetes deemed as a risk factor and a major contributor to CVD disease.

People with diabetes satisfies two to four times more at risk of experiencing a heart attack or stroke than those who do not diseased.

Diabetes and its complications will surely emerge as a major threat to global public health resources in the future with the economic and social cost is enormous, especially for developing countries.

Therefore, prevention is better than cure. Start by adopting a healthy lifestyle. Control appetite because every day faced with delicious food and especially those with a high sugar content.

To help prevent complications diabetes and the World Health Organization (WHO) also recommends that people maintain their ideal weight, stay fit that exercising at least 30 minutes a day.

They should emphasize the importance of lifestyle changes in order to prevent the disease if left destitute and will result in fatal complications.