如何预防糖尿病?
Diabetes affects millions of people around the world. You probably know someone with the disease. The condition, when carefully managed - as is usually the case in the UK - has a limited impact. However, if uncontrolled, diabetes can cause blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, and other serious health problems. Before diabetes is diagnosed, there is a period of time called prediabetes. This is when blood sugar levels are high, but not high even to be considered by medical professionals as diabetes. Sugar and refined carbs Sugar and refined carbs are high on the list of foods that can heighten the risk of diabetes. Your body rapidly breaks them down, and small sugar molecules are absorbed into your bloodstream. Simply, the rise in blood sugar as a result stimulates your pancreas to produce insulin, the hormone that helps sugar move into your body's cells. In people with prediabetes, the body's cells are resistant to insulin's action, so sugar remains high in the blood. To compensate, the pancreas produces more insulin as it attempts to bring blood sugar down to a healthy level. If this happens a lot, the higher blood sugar and insulin levels become commonplace and it gets progressively worse. Eventually, type 2 diabetes arrives. Exercise It won't come as a surprise to learn that regular exercise helps fend off the disease. Working out and aerobic and cardio training increases the insulin sensitivity of your cells, so your body doesn't need as much to keep everything in working order. Studies have shown that people at risk of developing the disease have upped their insulin sensitivity by exercising. Water Drinking water is good for all manner of things - it's the best thing you can feed your body. Sugary beverages are well-known to be poor nutritionally, and people who consume soda, juice and squash are putting themselves at greater risk of diabetes. Healthline reports: "One large observational study looked at the diabetes risk of 2,800 people. Those who consumed more than two servings of sugar-sweetened beverages per day had a 99% increased risk of developing LADA and a 20% increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes." |