jeudi 7 avril 2016

WHO Releases Warning Before You Eat Yourself To Diabetes

Warning before you eat

The amount of people with diabetes in 2016 is a third higher than the amount of people in 1980 and the World Health Organization (WHO) has released a warning before you eat anything else that will contribute to your risk of getting the disease, specifically type 2 diabetes.

About 422 million people worldwide have diabetes according to a news release put out by WHO on the 7th of April, World Health Day, and this number is set to more than double in the next 20 years.

World Health Day was an incentive started by WHO that focuses on one disease or health concern each year. 2016 is focused on diabetes, dubbed “Beat Diabetes”, and comes with a warning before you eat any more foods or beverages that increase your risk of joining the global diabetics statistic.

WHO said it picked diabetes as the theme for the 2016 World Health Day because the disease directly impacts millions of people globally and cases are steadily increasing. According to WHO 1.5 million deaths related to the disease have been recorded leading to the stark warning before you eat any more harmful foods.

“If we are to make any headway in halting the rise in diabetes, we need to rethink our daily lives: to eat healthily, be physically active, and avoid excessive weight gain,” WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan said in a statement today. “Even in the poorest settings, governments must ensure that people are able to make these healthy choices and that health systems are able to diagnose and treat people with diabetes.”

Dr. Gregg Faiman, an endocrinologist at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland warned that having diabetes increases your risk of kidney disease, limb amputation and a host of other health problems. Dr. Faiman said that nearly half a billion people around the world have type 2 diabetes, a disease that used to be prevalent in older people, and that it is now affecting an alarming amount of young people.

It’s a scary statistic. It just illustrates how serious the problem is.

In some parts of the U.S., diagnoses of type 2 diabetes cases outnumber type 1 cases in children and the biggest factor is what people are eating, how much they are eating and the lack of health motivation even if weight loss is achieved.

“If you fall back at habits that you’re using before [you lost weight,] it’s more likely to reoccur,” Faiman said.

Diabetes and obesity are intrinsically linked leading to the term Diabesity, not surprisingly obesity has also been on the rise worldwide according to NDTV. WHO said that one in three adults are overweight and one in 10 people are now obese bringing to light the importance of a warning before you eat high fat, high salt, high sugar or animal products according to ABC NEWS.

Controlling diabetes can be as simple as controlling what we eat and watching out for common signs that come as a warning to pre-diabetes such as increased hunger and thirst, unexplained weight loss and blurred vision. 90 per cent of diabetes cases are type 2, typically caused by poor diet, weight gain and a lack of exercise, all which are entirely preventable and come as a warning sign before we put any more bad foods in our mouths.

This years campaign to ‘Beat Diabetes’ is focusing on diabetes prevention, strengthen care, and enhanced surveillance. This translates to education and a clear warning before you eat foods that lead to obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Beat Diabetes before it sets in

Simple changes can be made to reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes. Here is 4 ways you can change your chance of getting the disease today suggested by Dr. Shashank Joshi, Endocrinologist, Lilavati & Bhatia Hospital:

  1. Diet – Avoid highly processed foods, beverages high in sugar and trans fats. Limit intake of alcohol and meats and include more whole grains, whole foods and vegetables into your diet. Limit fats and cook in less oil or use blends. Also include low fat proteins in your diet such as soy, tempeh, pulses and eat beans which according to an article published by the Inquisitr help people lose weight.
  2. Exercise – Regular exercise utilizes insulin and keeps glucose levels under control. Thirty minutes of movement everyday will cut your risk of diabetes by one-third.
  1. Lose Weight – For people overweight, dropping 5-10 per cent of your weight can cut the danger of type 2 diabetes in half. If you are eating properly and exercising your weight should drop-off as will the risk of type 2 diabetes.
  2. Do Not Smoke

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WHO Releases Warning Before You Eat Yourself To Diabetes is an article from: The Inquisitr News

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