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The Dangers of Diabetes

The world has a serious challenge in determining how to cure this dangerous disease known as diabetes. This is one of the worst disease increasing death rates in most countries worldwide. It is a group of metabolic diseases in which there is high blood glucose in the body. If the body cells do not respond correctly to insulin or the production of insulin is inadequate, then the body is likely to suffer this disease. However, it is beneficial to cure diabetes since patients with this kind of disease will typically experience frequent urination which might be very disturbing more so when someone is travelling or when one is in a crucial meeting. Also, these patients will become increasingly hungry and thirsty which is not healthy at all because one will be subjected to more meals per day hence leading to obesity.

In America where you find fast food restaurants in every nook and corner, many people face the challenge of fighting obesity that is an obvious consequence of accommodating fast food in their regular diet. However, this alarming trend leads to most health related issues such as life-threatening "Diabetes". Sugar is the most important food to avoid with diabetes, because it spikes glucose levels.

According to health professionals, Diabetes type 1 presently, is not curable, neither with exercising nor proper diet, medication, or any treatment. It is a condition resulted from the destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas, (more precisely, in the islets of Langerhans, which are specific clusters of cells inside the pancreas). Insulin is a hormone the body needs for breaking down sugar (glucose), by initiating glucose intake. Glucose is a very important body fuel; the body breaks them down and produces energy from the process. This energy is vital for our body. Since the destroyed beta cells are no longer able to produce the necessary hormone, insulin, insulin has to be injected into the blood stream (it cannot be taken orally, because digestion would break it down before it could enter the blood stream). There are constant researches for a cure, with strict diet control, exercise, and frequent blood sugar testing. Type-2 diabetics can go in remission, and you don't need medication, but they are not cured -you still need to watch your diet carefully and test your blood sugar occasionally to avoid relapse. Other unrelated diseases later on can also cause a relapse of diabetes.

According to the Portugal News for instance, more than one million residents are affected by diabetes disease. Moreover, an average of ten to twelve Portuguese people die each day from diabetes, a disease that affects more than 1 million people in Portugal, according to a national report released earlier this week. The Directorate-General for Health (DGS) document of World Diabetes Day shows that the disease has consistently killed between 2,200 and 2,500 women every year and about 1,600 to 1,900 men. From the statistics, it means that diabetes accounts for a percentage more than five for females and three for men. Literally, more than13 percent of the Portuguese population is affected by diabetes directly and another slightly less than half the population is yet to be diagnosed with the disease.

In the United States of America, Diabetes prevalence significantly increased over time in every age group, in both sexes, in every racial/ethnic group, by all education levels, and in all poverty income as reported by the Journal of the American Medical Association. According to the study whose research was based on data sources from the federal government, the diabetes disease is responsible for more than twelve percent of deaths in the United States. This implies that it is the third most death causing disease after cancer and the heart disease. We could translate the results of the research to directly mean that f diabetes was not in existence then the death rate of the American population would be reduced by a twelve percent margin. That is a massive or rather significant figure.

The annual study conducted by the U.S. National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) reveals that diabetic Americans have a 90 percent higher probability of death compared to the ones who do not suffer from the disease. One most important point in their study is the hint that previous reports that showed cancer as a death agent had probably underrated the rates at which the disease causes death. In an interview done by the Health News Daily, Andrew Stocks who is a demographer at Boston University says that, "When we monitor trends in the health of populations and we look at the mortality statistics, some major threats to U.S. mortality and life expectancy stand out, like drug and alcohol poisonings and suicide. Diabetes didn't."

Well, the facts remain constant. There is a significant rise in the death rates as a result of diabetes. The life expectancy of the entire country is probably at a sharp fall. This could be biased due to lack of research and statistical confirmation but it is impossible to rule out diabetes as one of the major reasons. What we can basically make out of these research and statistics about diabetes is that there is an urgent need to seek ways or rather strategies that will save the population against ram[pant deaths resulting from diabetes. Living with a chronic disease is challenging. There are several risk factors and complications that can occur when diabetes affects someone, but they can be prevented. The best way to deal with diabetes is to manage a healthy lifestyle with the support of family and friends. Eating healthy, drinking water, eating food with less carbohydrates and sugar are all benefactors of controlling diabetes. Depending on type 1 or 2, knowing what your blood sugar is as much as you can is a good thing. If you're very active or going on long hikes or boat rides, for example, having fast acting foods with you is always good (such as juice or peanut butter crackers).

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