I am very glad to see that everyone who has been
keeping up with my blog is satisfied and learning new things every time they
check my posts. I am also glad to see that it has all been positive so far.
This next article I will be using as a reference is from Self check. The title
of this article is “How You Can Help Prevent Diabetes.” This is a very credible
page because it is backed by the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive
& Kidney Diseases, National Institute of Health, and Harvard School of
Public Health. This article is more focusing on how to help educate people on
the symptoms and risk factors, but however also still touches base on
prevention methods.
One of the most important parts to prevention is
finding the disease at the start. There are plenty of obvious symptoms that
come along with diabetes. Some of those symptoms consist of someone always
being tired; going to the bathroom a lot, sudden weight loss, and a major one
is wounds that won’t heal. However even with the major weight loss other symptoms
are always being hungry and thirsty, blurry vision, numbing in the hand and
feet, and lastly sexual issues. Over one in twelve Americans suffer from these
kinds of symptoms, and that means there are over twenty five million people
that are affected by this.
There are many risk factors that can lead to
diabetes, but this article focused on the six risk factors that are most well-known.
The first risk factor is being overweight, and the reason that this is first is
because there is a direct correlation between fatty tissue and insulin
resistance. The next one is belly fat, and if you carry fat in your stomach area
more instead of on your thighs, or hips the risk for diabetes is increased. This
next one kind of coincides with the first two, and it is Inactivity. This will
cause weight gain, which as stated before leads to diabetes. Diabetes can also
be something that is hereditary, so a big risk factor is having family history of
people with diabetes. People of certain races also have a higher risk of
getting diabetes, and those races are Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians and
Asian-Americans. The last major risk factor is age. As you age, especially
after the age of 45 the risk of diabetes increases. However now that the
population is growing in the percent of people being obese, people younger and
younger are being diagnosed with diabetes.
There is a way to calculate your risk of getting
diabetes. Some of the questions that the diabetes calculator asks you is your
sex, age, height, weight, disease history, and also questions about the kind of
foods you are eating. The other questions that are asked are focused around the
six big risk factors that were stated earlier. As I said before, this article
touched on the topic of preventing, and controlling your diabetes. The same
kinds of suggestions were given, like to get more execersise, no smoking, and
maintaining a well-balanced diet.
