Diabetes Mellitus and Type 2 Diabetes
Diabetes is not just one of the most prevailing disorders to plague the world today, it is one that progressively brings more and more complications in its wake if left untreated or improperly treated. This is ultimate because diabetes is, at its core, a metabolic disorder, caused by the body’s inability to use the insulin produced by its own pancreas or insufficient insulin production. As glucose begins to accumulate in the bloodstream, it begins to damage the blood vessels in organs large and small across the body.
long term effects of diabetes
How to Reduce Complications of Diabetes?
1. Monitor, measure, manage you BSL
The key to avoiding long-term damage from diabetes is to know when you might be at risk. That means monitoring your body’s bio markers. Not just the blood sugar levels (BSL), which should be done as a matter of course, but also aspects like waist measurement, blood pressure, cholesterol, liver and kidney function, eye checks, etc. to ensure they are normal or within normal ranges.
Healthy diet
Diabetes itself is brought on primarily through a bad diet—rich in fat, salt, sugar, refined carbohydrates, processed foods, etc., and low in essential vitamins, minerals and other micronutrients.
Weight loss
One of the imperatives in controlling BSL is weight—to be precise fat around the midsection. Shedding even a fraction of the excess fat will reduce BP, blood glucose, and cholesterol.
Exercise
The connection between exercise and diabetes cannot be over-stressed. Urban living has brought unimaginable convenience to the lives of every human on the planet.
Smoking
If there’s just one habit everyone—diabetic or otherwise—must break, it is smoking. Smoking negates all the good done by your diet, exercise, etc.
Alcohol
While there is a lot of white noise surrounding alcohol consumption—with regular quaffers citing positives and doctors prescribing it—there is substantial research to show that long, and unmanaged term use of alcohol leads to serious health problems.
Diabetes is a growing global problem. And yes it is responsible for a diverse array of health complications. But diabetes and its attendant health complications can be addressed. Conventional medicine long held that diabetes was for life. But we know now that this is just not true.
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