If you do sports, it is very likely that put a face shield, a Shin guard or do stretching exercises before the game to prevent injury. It is impossible to predict what will happen in every situation, but most of the times you can avoid accidents taking safety precautions.
Sometimes, it is also advisable to take these preventive measures with the health problems such as diabetes. What you do now, depending on the type of diabetes, can help to prevent future health problems.
What is diabetes?
Diabetes is a disease that affects the way in which the body uses glucose, a sugar that is the main source of fuel for the body.
As well as a CD player needs batteries, our body needs glucose to continue to operate. This is the way in which it should work:
We eat.
The glucose contained in food enters the bloodstream.
The pancreas produces a hormone called insulin.
Insulin helps glucose enter cells of the body.
The body gets the energy it needs.
The pancreas is a gland that is long and flat, located in the abdomen, which helps to the body digest food. It also produces insulin. Insulin is like a key that unlocks the doors to the cells of the body. And it allows glucose to enter. Then, glucose can pass from the blood to the cells.
However, when a person suffers from diabetes, either the body does not produce insulin (called type 1 diabetes), or the insulin does not work on the body as it should be (this is called type 2 diabetes). As the glucose can not enter in cells normally, blood sugar level increases too. When a person has a high concentration of sugar in blood and does not follow a treatment, you get sick.
Type 1 diabetes cannot be prevented
Type 1 diabetes cannot be prevented. Even doctors cannot determine who will suffer from this disease and who not.
In type 1 diabetes, a person's immune system attacks the pancreas and destroys the cells responsible for producing insulin. No one knows for sure why this happens, but scientists believe that he keeps some relationship with the genetic. Genes, transmitted from parents to children, are something like instructions that determine the physical appearance and the functioning of the body. However, for diabetes, it is not enough to have inherited the genes. In most cases, must be another factor, as the presence of a viral infection, a person I developed type 1 diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes is not contagious. Therefore, one infected with another person cannot spread to any friend. In addition, consuming too much sugar may not cause diabetes type 1.
Type 2 diabetes can be prevented
Type 2 diabetes is different. Sometimes, it is possible to prevent type 2 diabetes.
In type 2 diabetes, the pancreas produces insulin, but the body does not respond to this hormone as it should. The problem is usually related to overweight. In the past, especially overweight adults suffered from type 2 diabetes. Today, there are many children and adolescents with type 2 diabetes, probably because there are many children and adolescents overweight.
One of the ways to prevent type 2 diabetes is to have a normal and healthy weight. Other preventive measures are eating nutritious, fresh and healthy food, and exercise. When a person is physically more active choose healthy food helps diabetes does not become a problem.
Certain people are more likely than others to get type 2 diabetes, caused by factors that cannot be changed. For example, people who is of indioamericano origin, African American, Hispanic/latino, Asian or Pacific Islander is more prone to developing type 2 diabetes. People who have family members with type 2 diabetes also runs one greater risk.
Some measures that can be taken to prevent type 2 diabetes
If you do not want to suffer from type 2 diabetes or if you simply want to feel more healthy follow these tips:
• Choose foods that are healthy. Try eating foods with low fat content but with a high content of other nutrients, such as cereals and whole-grain breads, fruits, vegetables, dairy products and lean proteins (with low-fat). These are super foods that you will provide the nutrients they need to grow, but will also help you maintain a healthy and normal weight that will allow you to prevent type 2 diabetes.
• Restricts the consumption of fast food and soft drinks with sugar. Eat lot of food fast, rich in calories, and drinks with high sugar content such as juices, sodas or tea ice cream also contributes to weight gain.
• Stay active. Another way to prevent type 2 diabetes is staying active and reduce the time you spend in sedentary activities (watching TV, play video games or use the computer). It is not necessary for you to become Member of a gym or you to practise three sports for the school year. You can stay active simply out to walk the dog or cutting the grass. You try to perform any activity that puts you on the move every day.
• If you have questions about your weight, please do not hesitate to ask. If you think you are exceeded weight or simply don't know what means to be healthy, talk to a doctor or a nurse practitioner in nutrition. These professionals can help you establish an ideal weight and will tell you how to achieve this weight and maintain it.