Truth of Diabetes
Diabetes is the fifth-deadliest disease.
It is believed that the number was higher since most deaths of the elderly had multiple chronic conditions associated with their death, including diabetes.
Many people do not know that they have diabetes until they develop other serious life-threatening conditions, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, blindness, kidney damage, nervous system damage, dental disease, sexual dysfunction, and several other complications.
When you have diabetes, the above complications are side illnesses, diabetes is the root of all of your medical problems and must be under control for you to recover from the side illnesses, period!
Being checked by your physician regularly is necessary for your overall quality of life.
If you do not know that you have diabetes, there is no other way of knowing that you have this deadly disease without a check-up and lab work.
There are several different types of diabetes, such as type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes.
Type 1 is the body’s inability to produce insulin.
People with type 1 are insulin-dependent for the remainder of their lives, and they must also keep close track of their blood sugar levels.
Type 2 is the most common form of diabetes.
Diabetes is a chronic disease and has no cure. While an estimated 14 million people have been diagnosed with diabetes, it is also estimated that close to 6.2 million are unaware that they have this deadly disease.
If this dangerous trend continues, it is believed that 1 in 3 Americans will develop diabetes in their lifetime.
It is also estimated that 41 million Americans have pre-diabetes today.
Pre-diabetes is a dangerous condition in itself, this is when the glucose level in the blood is not high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes yet damage is being done to your internal organs.
The body can not handle any unsafe level of sugar or glucose in the blood for any extended period.
Diabetes is the body’s inability to use the sugar called glucose.
Glucose is created when the body breaks down the energy in food.
The hormone insulin opens up the cells in the body to allow glucose to enter the cell and be used as fuel.
In diabetes, the cell never opens up and the glucose flows through the blood stream causing high blood sugar levels.
With diabetes, the body either does not make enough insulin or is resistant to its natural insulin.
High blood sugar can lead to very serious complications.
Heart disease is the leading cause of premature death in people with diabetes.
Diabetes is the major cause of leg and foot amputations in Americans today.
Infections are much harder to control in people with diabetes, they are at greater risk of complications and death due to infection.
The high risk factors leading to type 2 diabetes are too much body fat and high sugar intake!
Diabetes is on the rise.
Americans are eating poorly, and are lacking physical activity, and this is starting to show in the children of America.
Free-radicals are very active in a person with diabetes.
They attack several cells at once because diabetes causes an abnormal immune function due to high glucose levels in the blood and organs.
Free radicals are the reason you see so many different complications or side effects in this disease.
Free radicals are molecules or atoms that are missing an electron, free radicals attack healthy cells, trying to steal an electron from them.
Chronic inflammation is also a major player with this disease and in the side illnesses.
Chronic inflammation is being called the silent killer by doctors and scientists.
All of the above diseases need medications to help regulate the disease, but you need to know this, medications cause free-radical damage, and this damage is called side effects.
All medications can cause side effects.
So eating properly to help your condition is essential for your life.
Free-radicals cause healthy cells to become mutated or deformed, and they attack any cell they come in contact with.
Now if they do manage to steal an electron, then that once healthy cell, in turn, becomes a free-radical doing what was done to it.
This is a vicious cycle, basically there is a war going on inside your body.
You can not see or feel this war, but it is there, and one day it will show its ugly head in the form of a serious disease or illness.
You must be on the defensive and feed your body what it needs to combat these little piranhas.
Inflammation is a bully, after the free-radicals have done the damage, the inflammation is sent by the body to help heal, but it is unable to heal mutations and deformities, so the deformed or mutated cells begin to feed on the healthy inflammation cells.
Now the inflammation cells are deformed or mutated and become chronic inflammation cells, the chronic inflammation cells begin attacking your healthy tissues and cells.
You have the power to take your health into your own hands and put a stop to the damage now.
As we know, antioxidants help the body fight against free radicals, antioxidants are molecules or atoms that have an extra electron.
It gives this extra electron away and in turn the free-radicals stop attacking healthy cells.
Free radicals can not be avoided. They are in air and water pollution, in the junk foods we eat, and are caused by traumas and injuries.
Free-radicals are a part of life and they even affect the aging process itself.
Anti-oxidants are essential for health.
Plants contain about 1,000 to 1,500 anti-oxidants, a diet of fruits and vegetables is essential, supplements are key, and vitamins and minerals contain high numbers of anti-oxidants.
Anyone with diabetes or even pre-diabetes must re-think their diets, moving towards fresh and properly cooked foods, stay away from fast foods and anything with high sugar content.
Taking in a large number of antioxidants every day, is essential to help your body recover and maintain better overall health.
Type 2 diabetes can be controlled with diet and exercise.
Pre-diabetes can be reversed.
People with diabetes are ruled by their medications and checking their blood every day, they must see their doctor regularly to keep their blood sugars under control by adjusting their medication.
If their sugar goes too far up or down, massive damage to the internal organs and tissues is done, and even the brain is affected, and can cause coma.
This is a very deadly disease, but with the right food intake, it does not have to be, take care of yourself.
