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Food and drinks can trigger diabetes. In this life force of law “savings”. What do we do to savings in the future. What we tube will gradually feel the results many years later. So too with the disease.

Starting from a glass of your favorite beverage to enjoy watching TV until late. Who presume that it may increase the risk of diabetes?

1. Sweet tea
The explanation is simple. The high intake of sugar causes blood sugar levels soaring. Yet the risk of excess calories. A glass of sweet tea contains approximately 250-300 calories (depending on the thickness). Caloric needs of adult women the average is 1900 calories per day (depending on activity).

Of course our sweet tea was able to 1000-1200 calories. Currently plus three meals of rice and side dishes. Reasonably suspected that the excess of our daily calories. End: obesity and diabetes.

Succeeded: Water, tea without sugar, or limit consumption of sugar is not more than two teaspoons a day.

2. Fried
Because of the small, one fried not enough for us. And fried is one of the high risk factor triggering degenerative diseases, such as cardiovascular, diabetes mellitus, and stroke. The main causes of cardiovascular disease (PKV) is the blockage of coronary arteries, with one of the main risk factor was dyslipidemia.

Dyslipidemia is a disorder of lipid metabolism characterized by elevated levels of total cholesterol, LDL (bad cholesterol) and triglycerides, and decreased levels of HDL (good cholesterol) levels. Increasing the proportion of dyslipidemia in the community due to the habit of eating a variety of foods low in fiber and high in fat, including fried.

Succeeded: Nuts Japan, or fruit pies.

3. Like snacking
We thought that by limiting the afternoon or evening meal may shy away from obesity and diabetes. Because not full, the stomach is filled with a piece or two pieces of biscuits and snacks like potato chips. In fact, biscuits, potato chips, cookies and other sweet containing high carbohydrate content and without adequate food. All the food is classified in foods with high glycemic index. Meanwhile, sugar and flour contained in it have a role in raising blood sugar levels.

Substitute: fresh cut fruit.

4. Lack of sleep.
If the quality of sleep is not obtained, so disturbed metabolism. Research experts from the University of Chicago revealed, lack of sleep for 3 days resulted in the body’s ability to process glucose declined rapidly.

That is, the risk of diabetes increases. Lack of sleep also can stimulate the kind of hormones in the blood that trigger appetite. Driven hunger, sleep disturbances triggered patients to eat high-calorie foods that make blood sugar levels rise. Read the rest of this entry »

The diabetes, often does not cause severe symptoms until it has reached the later stages. Therefore it is considered a silent disease: not surprising, but it’s there. Diabetes affects us more than other Latino ethnic groups. One in ten Latinos have diabetes. In addition, many of us have no health insurance – according to statistics, 32.7% of Latinos are uninsured – and therefore, we are not annual checkups. This, combined with the fact that diabetes is a silent disease, makes for a great number of cases of diabetes have not been discovered yet, most of them women.

One in four Latino women have diabetes. It is important to know if you have diabetes before becoming pregnant, because this disease produces an excess of sugar or glucose in the blood that can affect the formation of the baby during the first weeks. It is therefore advisable to get tested for diabetes to prepare for motherhood. If you are pregnant and suspect you have diabetes (see symptom list below), or there are cases of diabetes in your family is a good idea to ask your doctor to get tested for diabetes as soon as possible. Fortunately, today diabetes is treatable, and you can have a normal pregnancy and a healthy child, still suffering from this disease.

Diabetes mellitus usually occurs in adulthood and ranks first among the diseases identified in the hospital diagnosis because the disease often produces no symptoms in its early stages, it progresses unnoticed by the patient. Therefore, given that diabetes is usually a complication subsequent to other pathologies, we must carefully monitor this possibility, from middle age.

The name of this disease comes from the sugar (glucose) that is excreted in the urine, which is related to the excessive level of glucose in the blood, it has not been entered into the cells through the blood. The cause may lie in a shortage of insulin, a hormone that facilitates entry of glucose into the cell, or it may be due to a malfunction of the insulin receptors that pick up from the membrane. The blood sugar rises after a meal and returns to normal after 2 or 3 hours, a fact that is not true in diabetics. Diabetes mellitus is diagnosed in an individual whose blood have been found more than 140 mg of sugar in two different measurements on an empty stomach (fasting). Diabetes in children appears suddenly with specific symptoms such as thirst, polyuria (increased urination) and binge eating, however, as we said, the diabetes of adults over age 40, shows no symptoms at first, which is usually detected as a result of a clinical screening for other reasons.

According to research by Professor HK Lee College of Medicine, Seoul National University has 3síntomas significant diabetes: increased appetite, thirst and urination, and also because diabetics can not make good use of energy, are symptoms of fatigue, as we described the processes before, when sugar is excreted in the urine, more water drag, which increases urine volume and induces thirst in the patient, but also the fact makes you feel weak the sensation of appetite, but as the food is not properly assimilated, remains fatigue, lack of strength and the skin tends to become brittle and rough. If this situation continues long without being discovered its cause, permanent complications may occur such as those cited below. Read the rest of this entry »

Around 80,000 people are diagnosed with kidney failure each year in the United States. This is a serious condition in which the kidneys fail to remove waste from the body. Kidney failure is the final stage of slow deterioration of the kidneys, a process known as nephropathy.

Piechart for primary diagnoses for kidney failure in 1998
Diabetes is the most common cause of kidney failure, and constitutes more than 40 percent of new cases. Even when drugs and diet can control diabetes, the disease can lead to nephropathy and kidney failure. Most diabetics do not develop kidney disease severe enough to cause kidney failure. There are about 16 million diabetics in the United States and of these, 100,000 have kidney failure as a result of diabetes. People with kidney failure must undergo dialysis, which replaces some of the filtering function of the kidneys, or transplantation to receive a kidney from a healthy donor. Most Americans with renal impairment can receive medical care funded by the federal government. In 1997 the federal government spent about $ 11.800 billion in the care of patients with renal failure.

The African Americans, American Indians and the descendants of Hispanic Americans with diabetes, nephropathy and renal failure in a proportion higher than average. The scientists have been unable to explain this phenomenon and can not fully explain the interplay of factors leading to diabetic nephropathy. These factors include heredity, diet, and other conditions such as hypertension. It has been observed that hypertension and high concentrations of glucose in the blood increase the risk of suffering a diabetic renal finish.

The erectile sexual dysfunction (DSE) is defined as the inability to have a man to achieve and / or maintain an erection adequate enough to achieve a satisfactory sexual activity. The frequency of DSE is significantly higher [1] in the diabetic population when compared with the general population. To have a normal erection in men, the nerves must be healthy and the penis must receive a good blood supply, diabetes can cause permanent damage to nerves and blood vessels, and therefore can cause erectile dysfunction by decreasing the blood flow to the penis. [2]

The erectile dysfunction (ED) is a potential marker of cardiovascular disease , as shares many risk factors such as age, smoking, or dyslipidemia (high blood fats) and coexisting with many other diseases such as diabetes and hypertension.

The erectile dysfunction is a common problem in men with diabetes and is associated with diabetic neuropathy and peripheral vascular disease. 50% of diabetic men develop this disease within 10 years after diagnosis. The prevalence is between 50% and 70% in diabetic men and increases with age, becoming 95% in diabetic men 70. In diabetic patients, the study MMAS, the prevalence of impotence was 3 times higher than in the full sample of patients. Read the rest of this entry »

Diabetes is a disease in which patients present a problem in your body to produce or use insulin. Unlike the Diabetes type 1 (or insulin), people with Type 2 Diabetes do produce insulin but the body shows resistance to it, which causes the glucose is not properly distributed throughout the body and are sluggish large amounts of sugar in the blood.

At the time of glucose exceeds normal levels in the blood when there is hyperglycemia. Many people with insulin resistance have high levels of insulin in the blood and hyperglycemia at the same time.

Thus, the patient begins to perceive the early symptoms of diabetes and, with them, health complications.

What is insulin resistance?

This dysfunction has to do with the inability of the fat cells, liver and muscle to respond normally to insulin, causing sugar is not stored there for energy. When tissues do not respond well to insulin, the pancreas produces more of it.

Type 2 diabetes is closely linked to overweight and obesity. As well as other conditions such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease and high cholesterol, but what is the relationship? Why being overweight or obese may develop diabetes?

Everything you eat is converted into energy for the body, when we eat foods like carbohydrates or simple sugars go directly into the bloodstream increasing the concentration of blood glucose to lower these levels, the pancreas begins to secrete a hormone called insulin, which is necessary for cells to take glucose.

Abuse of foods rich in sugars results in the pancreas is exhausted and produce less insulin, which means that cells are able to obtain glucose, added to it, the latter begin to experience a phenomenon called insulin resistance, the which causes the glucose, even if insulin can not enter the cell.

This causes:
The body does not work properly because there is no power.
We feel tired.
There is less production of insulin because the pancreas is exhausted.
Rising levels of blood glucose.
Diabetes develops.

Too much sugar can be used by the liver for triglyceride synthesis, which are released into the blood causing hypertriglyceridemia.

People with diabetes have an increased risk of heart disease, which is compounded if you have high cholesterol or triglycerides. Cholesterol is a lipid produced by the body but also get from certain foods, while triglycerides are formed by excessive sugar intake.

People who are overweight and / or obese are more likely to have high cholesterol or triglycerides, although many thin people can have them also derived from a diet rich in fat. It follows from the need for people with diabetes check constantly these two lipid levels and also take care that your fat intake, in addition to sugar and carbohydrates.

How often do I have to check my cholesterol and triglycerides?

At least once a year. The American Heart Association of America indicates that you must present at least 40 ml / gl of HDL cholesterol and 100 mg / dl of LDL or bad cholesterol to rule out a problem of high cholesterol. The normal range for triglycerides is below 150 mg / dl. Read the rest of this entry »

Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the heart condition that affects more adults worldwide. This irregular heart rhythm causes the heart beats too fast, too slow or irregular rhythms.
It occurs when electrical signals are sent in a disorganized manner causing the atria of the heart muscle fibrillar and that this body does not pump blood properly.

By not effectively pump blood, it tends to accumulate in the heart with blood clots that travel through the circulatory system and can block blood flow to the brain, causing it to not have energy reserves and an event occurs Cerebral Vascular (EVC) or cerebral embolism.

It is important to emphasize that the FA, which can cause an embolism, usually no symptoms in the body, and when it does, can occur in palpitations, chest pain, difficulty breathing and dizziness.

According to the doctor Antonio Arauz, president of the Mexican Association of Cerebral Vascular Disease, the surest way of knowing who is doing FA have regular checkups that include cardiac analysis. Read the rest of this entry »

Can snoring cause the development of Type 2 Diabetes?

Snoring has been associated with a myriad of health problems such as poor performance due to fatigue resulting in a restless sleep, in addition, snoring is associated with neurological diseases, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal.

Now, according to a study published in the journal Sleep Breath, snoring can be a risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes because they are caused by pauses in breathing due to relaxation of the muscle that narrows the airways and thus hinders the entry of oxygen into the lungs and thereby interrupts the chain of glucose metabolism.

“Snoring can be the cause of diabetes in healthy people and in people who already have the disease may complicate their clinical manifestations,” said Pedro Mayoral, a specialist in sleep disorders.