No one likes to get old, but it happens to us anyway, your life as a 50+ year old will be much more comfortable if you don't have to deal with things that can be prevented (or at least pushed off for a few years). Diabetes is one of these things, if you are in a high risk group then you should do something to reduce your risk.
Who is at risk of developing diabetes? Sadly enough diabetes is becoming a very common condition in the western world. We are all eating more junk food and spending more time in our cars rather than out in the fresh air. As more people are at risk now than ever before it is a a good idea for anybody over 40 to have their blood sugar levels tested from time to time.
Chances are for the first 25-30 years of your life you never once worried about what you ate and you never struggled with your weight. From age 30-40 people eat the same but do a lot less exercise so that is when weight starts to accumulate usually. If you ignore your weight then you are increasing the chances of you developing diabetes.
Age - type 2 diabetes is much more likely to develop in middle aged or elderly people. Until recently there were virtually no children or adolescents with type 2, which is why type 1 diabetes is often called childhood diabetes. Sadly enough it is possible and even common for people of all ages to develop type 2, even children, especially if they are very overweight.
Do you have high blood pressure already? Well then you are increasing your risk for diabetes. This is another one of the illness that can be improved so much just by reducing your weight. If you are clinically obese then diabetes and hypertension together could very well be reducing your life span.
If you spend a lot of time sitting around then you are not helping to reduce the chances of developing diabetes. Your lifestyle choices really do affect your health. The good thing is that you can change your lifestyle without to much difficulty. Just get up and take the dog, or even someone elses dog, for a walk once a day or do something else to increase your level of exercise.
If you lose weight, improve your hypertension, reduce your reliance on medicine and then reduce your chances of developing diabetes as well surely you are on a all round winner aren't you?
Who is at risk of developing diabetes? Sadly enough diabetes is becoming a very common condition in the western world. We are all eating more junk food and spending more time in our cars rather than out in the fresh air. As more people are at risk now than ever before it is a a good idea for anybody over 40 to have their blood sugar levels tested from time to time.
Chances are for the first 25-30 years of your life you never once worried about what you ate and you never struggled with your weight. From age 30-40 people eat the same but do a lot less exercise so that is when weight starts to accumulate usually. If you ignore your weight then you are increasing the chances of you developing diabetes.
Age - type 2 diabetes is much more likely to develop in middle aged or elderly people. Until recently there were virtually no children or adolescents with type 2, which is why type 1 diabetes is often called childhood diabetes. Sadly enough it is possible and even common for people of all ages to develop type 2, even children, especially if they are very overweight.
Do you have high blood pressure already? Well then you are increasing your risk for diabetes. This is another one of the illness that can be improved so much just by reducing your weight. If you are clinically obese then diabetes and hypertension together could very well be reducing your life span.
If you spend a lot of time sitting around then you are not helping to reduce the chances of developing diabetes. Your lifestyle choices really do affect your health. The good thing is that you can change your lifestyle without to much difficulty. Just get up and take the dog, or even someone elses dog, for a walk once a day or do something else to increase your level of exercise.
If you lose weight, improve your hypertension, reduce your reliance on medicine and then reduce your chances of developing diabetes as well surely you are on a all round winner aren't you?
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While most of us can really know for sure if we will encounter diabetes it can be useful to know most of the Causes of Diabetes that we can do something about Diabetes is growing more common every year but there are things you can do to reduce your risk of encountering it.
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