Diabetes The Facts And The Fiction |

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Diabetes is on the increase there is no doubt about that, but is it becoming a postcode disease like a lot of others that we hear about nowadays, if you live in the more affluent areas such as places like Kensington, Chelsea in London. Some of the people who live in these particular areas didn’t even realise that they had it.

It certainly is a common thing these days for people to have diabetes and not even realise it, the main problem being is that the symptoms are very hard to detect especially when you’re dealing with type two diabetes. Which is most commonly known as adult onset diabetes, this can affect most people as they get older in life?

The main reasons for the causes of diabetes are eating too many foods that have high sugar content, such as cakes, biscuits, and high sugar drinks like Coca-Cola etc. Also being overweight is a major contributing factor when it comes to contracting diabetes.

A lot of it can be self inflicted, if you have a waistline that is above 37 inches for men and 35 inches for women then you may be more at risk of getting the disease yourself, eating a high sugar, high cholesterol diet is a surefire combination to encourage it. This and a lack of exercise will also, be a major contributing factor.

A lot of people tend to think that diabetes just means injecting yourself with insulin because your body can’t produce any, while this may be due to a certain extent it isn’t the be all and end all, and isn’t the case when you have type two diabetes, if you are careful in managing it properly.

By watching what you eat and getting a minimum of 30 minutes of exercise per day, five times a week then you are far more likely to keep it under control, and hopefully shouldn’t be having to inject yourself with insulin regularly.

The Myths of Diabetes

Eating too much chocolate causes it

While this may be due to a certain extent and doesn’t necessarily help matters, what happens when you have diabetes is your body doesn’t produce enough insulin which is used to, ensure sugar take up in your body cells, so when you move about and exercise.

The sugar is used for energy and is not in your body, having too much access sugar in your blood can cause problems to your internal organs. It could be due to the fact that you may have a genetic cause of the disease rather than a age related one.

Diabetes can be passed on to other people

There could be nothing more further than the truth, if you are into fairytales then this must be one of the biggest ones there is. Diabetes is not a airborne or physically contracted disease. So you won’t catch it from other people.

The most important thing is to keep your blood sugar levels stable

Although this is an important factor don’t be too surprised if you have to visit your GP or health care professional, and they start to talk about high fatty foods, how much you weigh, and what exercise you do the problem with diabetes is, that it tends to make your blood become very sticky, and the problem with this is that it tends to fur up your arteries easier.

With plaques of cholesterol so even though blood sugar is a important factor in diabetes management, it is not the only thing that you need to think about as well.

You have to you eat special diabetic foods

Nothing could be further from the truth, if you look at how much special diabetic foods cost, you will probably realise that they are what they are just cashing in on a ready available market, as long as you stick to a sensible diet, which mostly avoids things like high processed carbohydrate foods, which are high in refined sugar.

And eat more natural foods like fruit and vegetables, you shouldn’t have too much of a problem.If you are not exactly sure what to eat, speak to a dietician or get some advice from your healthcare professional, as to which foods you should be eating as far as diabetes is concerned.

Diabetes is something you can’t prevent from happening

I’m afraid the obvious answer here is yes you can very much so, and don’t let any thing or anyone else tell you any different. The simplest things to do here are look at your waist size, by using a tape measure and measuring the widest part of your abdomen just below your belly button and see what your waist size is. If it’s over 35 inches for a woman and 37 for a man and your overweight then there is a risk factor. If you are about 40 or over how much exercise are you doing ? are you doing any at all.

Do you eat lots of food that is highly processed with refined carbohydrates in or put simply that are full of sugar and fat, do you eat lots of cakes, biscuits and chocolate.

If the answer is yes then it may be time to take a visit to the doctors, for a blood test , normally you will be asked to have a fasting blood test. Or sometimes you will be asked to drink some high sugar content drink then come back, and then you will have a blood test. Of which you will get the results in about roughly a weeks time.

The good news is if you catch it early and are diagnosed as being pre-diabetic, which in a nutshell means you are on the verge of becoming diabetic, in most cases it is possible to reverse this situation, as long as you take the advice of your health care professional and/or GP and make radical changes to your exercise and diet regime.

Then hopefully you should be all right in a matter of time. The key thing here is to be responsible and just don’t think I will be all right.

When you crave sweet foods it’s a sign that you may have diabetes.

This does not necessarily have to be the case it could be due to the fact that, you may have certain that mineral or vitamin deficiencies. Which could cause you to have cravings for sugar quite naturally?

You’re far more likely to have these sort of symptoms when you have diabetes. Feeling thirsty a lot of the time, you may feel lethargic, be more prone to having infections for longer periods of time than normal, wee a lot more than normal.

It may show up as a eye problem or you may have problems of a sexual nature especially, as far as men are concerned getting erect. Here’s a thought if your concerned about ending up on Viagra then try to avoid becoming a diabetic if that isn’t a huge incentive I don’t know what is.

Another thing that people don’t actually realise about diabetes is that insulin tends to be a fat storage hormone. So if you are eating lots of sugary type foods then you are basically telling your body to store fat, also if you have lots of insulin in your blood it can tend to make you feel more hungry than normal so here is yet another clue that you may need to consider.

Source Currant Bun I mean Sun Newspaper.