Why the most people suffer from diabetes
Do you know that about 415 million adults are living with diabetes? In fact, according to the International Diabetes Foundation (IDF) Diabetes Atlas, 642 million adults are expected to have this medical disorder by 2040.
Another shocking piece of information is that about 46.5% of people with diabetes have not even been diagnosed! Even children are not left out of this horrifying statistics as approximately 542,000 children have type 1 diabetes.
Over $670 billion – which is 12% of global health expenses – is spent on this terrible ailment.
In the United States, more than 29 million people suffer from both type 1 and type 2 diabetes (according to a 2012 data made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC).
But why does it appear as if every 1 in 11 adults suffers from this deadly disease?
Diabetes is a disease or ailment that occurs in the human body and is as a result of the body’s inability to store and use glucose properly. When this happens, glucose accumulates in the bloodstream, thus causing your blood sugar to rise extremely high.
There are two major types of this ailment:
type 1 diabetes which is also known as insulin-dependent diabetes;
type 2 diabetes (non-insulin dependent diabetes).
Type 1
Occurs when the human body stops the production of insulin, a hormone that is produced in the pancreas which helps the human body to regulate or use the amount of glucose present in foods and transforms it to energy.
People living with type 1 diabetes, therefore, must take insulin injections daily to survive. Type 1 diabetes is more prevalent among children and young adults, though it has been known to occur at any age.
Type 2 diabetes
Occurs when the amount of insulin produced by the body is insufficient or when the body cannot properly make use of the insulin that is available – otherwise known as insulin resistance.
This second variety of the disease occurs in overweight people, individuals who are more than 40 years of age with a family history of diabetes, etc. Today, adolescents are also suffering from this dreaded disease.
People with diabetes always experience the following symptoms:
• Unusual weight loss
• Blurry vision
• Frequent urination
• Wounds that don’t heal
• Irritability
• Being very thirsty
• Increased hunger
• Frequent gum, bladder, and skin infections
• Extreme unexplained fatigue
But at times, people with type 2 diabetes may not experience any symptoms at all, thus making them live for years with the disease.
But the question remains: why do most people have diabetes? The answer to that question is that most people who suffer from this ailment are either fat, don’t perform regular exercise, cannot control their appetites or are just lazy.
When you lack discipline when it comes to taking care of your physical health, there is a very high probability that you could end up with this killer disease.
All forms of diabetes can be treated, although they can last a lifetime. You can either delay the onset of the symptom or prevent it entirely by:
• Eating healthy
• Perform regular exercises or be more active
• Lose excess weight
• Work with a professional
thanks for the information ..
Fact .. Our unbalanced lifestyle is the reason
Thanks for sharing
This is as crazy as it is scary
I tag Diabetes as one of the silent Medical killers. It's even worse in 3rd world countries where a lot of persons do not access proper medical care.
Thanks for the discuss.
The real cause for diabetes is overeating and bad eating habits. If you eat as an addiction, and/or eat lots of sugar, and/or eat little fiber, you are prone to have diabetes and Alzheimer, which is the diabetes of the brain.
They have even begun calling Alzheimer's disease type 3 diabetes due to the connection between excessive carbohydrate intake and dementia. I am a health provider for the cognitive health of the geriatric population and daily I am urging caregivers to seek out the current research to help slow the rapid decline. "Low fat" is destroying people's quality of life.
I agree that you need fat for a healthy brain. I also believe that overuse of statins in the elderly is contributing to their decline in cognitive health.
Yes. I was also alluding to the fact that when you go "low fat", the fat is often replaced by more carbohydrates.
You got a 3.69% upvote from @minnowvotes thanks to @discernente!
In Germany, the diabetes rate is not so high, but the problem is also ubiquitous. In any case, it is a fact that our patients are poorly informed about their own illness. As a result, they do not understand what diabetes is and how to treat it at best.
Even a pure oatmeal cure for 14 days can have a significantly positive effect on insulin resistance. In addition, a combination of strength and endurance training seems to be perfect. That's how I work with my diabetes patients. With very, very good results!
Incidentally, if gestational diabetes occurs during pregnancy, the odds of developing type 2 diabetes over the next few years are extremely high. Ziegler et al. have statistically calculated from medical data that affected women will have over 90 percent chance of developing type 2 diabetes over the next 15 years. This probability can be reduced by changing one's lifestyle. But breastfeeding over 3 months has significant effects on reducing the development of type 2 diabetes.
In German: In Deutschland ist die Diabetes-Quote zwar nicht ganz so hoch wie in den USA, aber das Problem ebenfalls allgegenwärtig. Fakt ist jedenfalls, das bei uns die Patienten schlichtweg mangelhaft über ihre eigene Krankheit aufgeklärt werden. Dies hat zur Folge, dass sie gar nicht verstehen, was Diabetes eigentlich ist und wie man ihn bestenfalls therapieren kann.
Schon eine reine Haferflocken-Kur über 14 Tage kann die Insulinresistenz signifikant positiv beeinflussen. Außerdem scheint eine Kombination aus Kraft- und Ausdauertraining perfekt zu sein. So arbeite ich auch mit meinen Diabetes-Patienten. Mit sehr, sehr guten Erfolgen!
Übrigens: Falls in der Schwangerschaft ein Gestationsdiabetes auftreten sollte, so ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit extrem hoch, dass man in den nächsten Jahren einen Typ-2-Diabetes entwickelt. Ziegler et al. haben aus medizinischen Daten statistisch errechnen können, dass betroffene Frauen in den nächsten 15 Jahren eine über 90 prozentige Chance haben, Typ-2-Diabetes zu entwickeln. Diese Wahrscheinlichkeit lässt sich verringern, indem man sein Lebensstil verändert. Aber auch eine Stillzeit über 3 Monate hat signifikante Effekte auf die Reduzierung einer Entwicklung von Typ-2-Diabetes.
Really interesting
I know that raw food diet and fasting help a lot, but I think that things are not so simple actually. For example artificial light, disconnecting from nature, EMF have far more influence than poor diet and exercise. Because of it our hormones are completely messed up. This can make weight and hunger control almost impossible. There are so many studies on these topics so may be it is a matter of time and consciousness to become healthier. I don't know what the solution is but it seems like the way we live today makes us zombies, addicts, pharmaceutical and food industries' slaves. I dream for a world full of healthy people..
As we are moving towards new tech era ,but we are pushing backward by these kind of disease.
wealth without health is useless
It's simple - eat less sugar.
It could be great if we quit eating everything.lol😂😂
Hmmm interesting.
@cbeep One person asked who is rich ? those who are financially great. Nope ... the one who know how o make balance between Health, finance and relationship and most important spiritual self(inner self talk)
Diabetes can go silently undetected for a long time without symptoms. Many people first become aware that they have diabetes when they develop one of its potentially life-threatening complications, such as heart disease, blindness or nerve disease. thanks for a great post @jwolf hopefully this will help a lot of people who don't know actual symptoms of diabetes.
Thanks for giving us this vital health information. Although, the fugures you gave as carriers and would be carriers in near future is quite alarming and worrisome. However, I believe that with better enlifhtenment on preventive aspect of Diabetes the world will be better for it. I follow and upvote you.
Great and so true. If people would start buying food that doesn’t come out of a box or package, it would solve half of the problem. The other half could be helped or resolved by people farming. Farming is exercise, and done on a daily basis would provide them with more energy. It is a big circle of life that is being forgotten. You are right people are lazy but I think our society is making us this way :/ With the day to day living Monday to Friday work week, family, and so on, it is so hard to do! I think a mix of both growing your own and buying less process food could help tremendously. Going back somewhat to basic could solve so much of the sick population.
Peace :)
Keep posting great article @jwolf!