Diabetes and Prediabetes

Tue, 13 Jul 2010
Diabetes is widely known to be a disease wherein the body in unable to process sugars and starches.

Diabetics also have problems processing fats within their diet .

There are two usual forms of dabetes: juvenile-onset, or type 1 diabetes (which usually develops suddenly before the age of 30), and adult, or Type 2 Diabetes.

Approximately 90 percent of American diabetics have Type Diabetes . Prediabetes, often known as metabolic syndrome, involves insulin resistance which can lead to full-blown type 2 diabetes should it remain unchecked. Difficulties with processing fats and risks of heart attack and strokes commence in the prediabetes phase.

To keep such risks at bay, national guidelines recommend that diabetics maintain their blood pressure below 130/80. Stopping smoking is more necessary for diabetics than others, as smoking and diabetes are a lethal combination.

Type 2 diabetes is closely related to obesity. This goes a long way to explains why, as the American population becomes fatter, the rate of type 2 diabetes is rapidly increasing.

There are also millions of "diabetics in training" in the USA, that is, children who are more fat and more unfit than ever before. An increasing number of children are becoming diabetic or prediabetic.

Diabetics with Type 2 can do a lot to combat this kind of diabetes, including weight loss and exercise .

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