Diabetes can strike anyone, at any time. When the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, or our body fails to use insulin properly, this leads to high blood sugar levels. When this occurs, we have a disease called diabetes. The three different forms of diabetes are: Type 1, Type 2, and Gestational diabetes. Type 1 diabetes occurs when insulin producing cells in the pancreas are damaged. Pancreatic cells are both protected and destroyed by the body's hormones. Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body fails to produce enough insulin, or fails to utilize it properly. Being overweight is a major contributor to this form of diabetes. Lastly, Gestational diabetes develops in some women during pregnancy. Common symptoms of diabetes includes but are not limited to excessive thirst , excessive urination increase in the fluid intake , hungriness' , vomiting , tiredness restless behaviors , irritation etc. In every country, this disease is the major health problem with millions of people and its still rising. The number is growing in millions everyday. There are so many cases which are not even diagnosed and reported, you will see most of these cases in urban areas. So , to talk about in percentage 90% people are from urban areas and 10% from rural who remain undiagnosed. Bulkiness, obesity, poor diet, motionless lifestyle are the top causes for type 2 diabetes and that's why this is mostly founded in urban areas. The reason why rural life is different from urban life is the sedentary lifestyle that is eating more and exercising less in urban areas. Heredity is one of the causes of type 1 diabetes. According to a research, at present, 246 million people around the world are affected by diabetes, which is expected to rise by 380 million by 2025. About 3.8 million people loose their life because of diabetes every year worldwide. Cardiovascular disease is the reason for a greater number of deaths which has been worsened by diabetes-related lipid disorders and hypertension. Some of the chronic diseases are becoming public health challenges like diabetes and hypertension. A lot of methods and measures have evolved to prevent the disease and hence lowering down the number of deaths forced by this deadly disease. Why are you worrying?? To lower the risk of developing diabetes, only thing that you need to do is taking healthy diet and regular physical exercise and this will reduce the risk by 30% or more. Now what does a healthy diet mean? It means a nutritional diet low in fats and free of processed carbohydrates, high proteins in the breakfast. Try to have 5-7 small meals rather than one hefty meal. Doing exercise is very important as it burns out the fat and reduces the sugar level, so you should strongly consider walking for 1-2 hours everyday to burn those extra calories & fats. These were some of the ways, following which you can greatly reduce the risk of having diabetes. It is recommended that people get their blood sugar levels tested from time to time. If people continue to check their blood sugar levels on a regular basis, diabetes can be caught and treated early, helping to win the fight against the disease.
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