Focus on diabetes: understanding and prevention
Diabetes has become a chronic disease that today cannot be ignored.
Globally, the number of diabetes patients is rising year by year. It consists mainly of type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes and pregnancy diabetes. Of these, type 2 diabetes is most common and is often closely associated with adverse lifestyles, such as chronic high-calorie diets, lack of exercise and obesity.
Diabetes and many symptoms in the body. For example, frequent thirst, always feeling dry tongues, and a great deal of water is difficult to alleviate; there is a marked increase in the number of urinations; and there is an unknown decrease in body weight. These symptoms, if they occur frequently, cannot be taken lightly.
Diabetes is no less harmful. Long-term high blood sugar can cause damage to various organs of the body. Retinal pathologies may occur in the eyes, leading even to blindness in serious cases; kidney functions may be affected, leading to diabetes; and the cardiovascular system increases the risk of coronary heart disease, as well as moderate cerebrovascular disease in the brain.
However, diabetes is not beyond control. In daily life, it is essential to maintain healthy eating habits. Reduced intake of high sugar, fat and salty foods and increased intake of diet-rich fibres such as vegetables, fruit and whole grains. At the same time, maintaining a moderate physical exercise with a moderate aerobic strength of at least 150 minutes per week is a good choice, such as leaving, jogging and swimming. For high-risk groups such as the family history of diabetes, blood sugar testing is conducted on a regular basis to enable early detection and early intervention.
In short, knowledge of diabetes and proactive measures to combat it can better protect our health from this chronic disease.
