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The diabetes mellitus is known in humans for many years, especially since prehistoric times. Antigua, a clinical diagnosis of diabetes was sentenced to death invariably more or less quickly. The progression of type 2 diabetes is left undiagnosed. But with the discovery of insulin, treatment was possible. Diabetes was first identified by the Egyptians 3500 years ago. Explained in medical books of the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, India, Rome and China. In ancient books it is mentioned that the disease is associated with polyuria, ploydipsia, etc. A Roman citizen described diabetes as a melting flesh and limbs into urine. In addition, the Charaka and Sushruta, known Ayurvedic physicians describe patients with diabetes have the sweet urine and it was like a shower of honey .

So, they called diabetes mellitus as ” Madhumeha “,” madhu “means sweet or honey, and” meha “is excess urine. Since then, we can say that diabetes has been recognized since antiquity, and treatments were known since the Middle Ages. But the etiopathogenesis of diabetes occurred mainly in the twentieth century. The ancient Chinese tested for diabetes by observing ants, if they were attracted by the urine of a person or not. Medieval European doctors tested the diabetes, by testing the urine of diabetic patients, from time to time have a scene appears in Gothic reliefs , and called it ” sweet urine disease “.

Incidence of Diabetes
The diabetes mellitus occurs throughout the world, but is more common in more developed countries. There is an increased incidence of diabetes in developing countries due to changing lifestyles and the call of urbanization. According to the World Health Organization, more than 200 million people around, in the year 2010. But because of its increasing incidence, it is believed that by 2030 this figure will double. Asia and Africa are the most commonly affected. Diabetes is considered as an important cause of death and is among the top 5 diseases most important in the developed world. In 2005 there are about 30 million people with diabetes in the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

When glucose levels are high, the cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia), we can help.

On different websites you can read that studies like the one conducted in the Department of Human Nutrition, NWFP Agricultural University, Peshawar, Pakistan, show that cinnamon is effective down (between 15 and 25%) abnormally high levels of glucose and at the same time, cholesterol levels (between 10 and 25%) and triglycerides (between 20 and 30%)
is good news for those with diabetes (type 2) and / or patients with cardiovascular risk (excess cholesterol and triglycerides)

In most cases of diabetes after completing treatment (twenty days in the case of impaired glucose and forty in cholesterol and triglycerides) and stop taking the cinnamon, patients continued to be more balanced than before starting taking it.

This is a very interesting fact that what is sought is trying to regulate the body and not taking a drug that often improves only when you take that to stop taking it back to be just as bad in the beginning. Not to mention all the side effects.

These studies continue as they now try to see what happens if the cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia) is taken for months or for a long time and if there are any unintended effects. Read the rest of this entry »

Diabetes and Your Skin
Diabetes affects almost every part of your body and your skin, the body’s largest organ n? is an exception to that rule. A large proportion of people with diabetes, as well as a third or more, also at one time engaged in some kind of skin disease or disorder. There is a wide range of possibilities for skin diseases, including some that are specific to diabetes and others who are simply more likely to occur due to diabetes.

One of the most common and is directly caused by diabetes is diabetic dermopathy. Diabetic dermopathy is also known as shin spots, because the result is usually brown or tan circular spots on the legs. The good news is that these are completely harmless and require no treatment n?. N? itch, bleed, extent or cause pain. Diabetic dermopathy is caused by diabetes has on blood vessels.

Vitiligo is another disease that affects skin coloration people with diabetes. Vitiligo more effect on the chest and stomach, but have also been known to appear on the face. Because the pigments are produced in that area of ??your skin and can be produced by n? attack. There are several treatment options for this type of condition and must take precautions whenever you’re in the sun.

Diabetic blisters can also occur in some people. Diabetic blisters can actually get quite large and can be found almost anywhere. The most common however are in the fingers or the back of the hands. These are harmless, n? must be painful. It should heal by themselves without leaving any marks in most cases.

People with type 2 diabetes can be affected by a skin disorder known as scleroderma rarely diabetes, resulting in the skin of her neck and upper back that are thickened and hardened.

A similar condition affects those who are obese or very overweight. It’s called acanthosis nigricans and the result is a thickening and darkening of the skin areas as well. It also occurs frequently in the neck, but also known to occur in the armpits of a person, knuckles, breasts and groin. The sites are usually more susceptible skin folds across the top of the body.

There is also a wide range of problems that people with diabetes may be more likely to compared to others. These are fungal infections and bacterial infections, which must be addressed by seeing a doctor and considered getting.

Skin problems are just another area where people with diabetes need to be prepared to do battle against. Unfortunately this is only a sample of the many skin problems that people with diabetes have to take into account.

The positive side is that our understanding of modern science and medicine, most of these problems are relatively benign, though some still can be serious. It is important to arm yourself with the knowledge necessary for you to try to prevent problems from occurring and to be able to recognize when they do.

A pilot test was encouraging results on the use of autologous stem cells combined with oxygen. It was made ??together with American researchers Growing diabetes epidemic in the United States has deemed crucial for scientists seeking new treatments for the disease and its many complications. A new study published by researchers at the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) University of Miami, in conjunction with Stem Cell Argentina, Buenos Aires, showed that a recent protocol that includes stem cells and oxygen therapy in the treatment of diabetes was very successful in its pilot.

These were published in Cell Transplantation – The Regenerative Medicine Journal on 11 March, and played by the portal News Medical. During the investigation, 25 patients with type 2 diabetes received autologous stem cells, which were implanted in blood vessels that go to pancreas. Before and after this practice, they were given oxygen treatment. In type 2 diabetes, the insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells is tough, acts improperly or reduced. In type 1 diabetes, beta cells are destroyed and in general virtually no insulin is produced.

The aim of the study is to determine whether the use of the patient’s own stem cells with oxygen may help rebuild damaged beta cells. “Preliminary results indicate that the combination of autologous stem cells delivered to the pancreas and oxygen therapy significantly increased the production of insulin, glucose levels, improved metabolic control and greatly reduced the requirements for external insulin injections,” said Camilo Ricordi, director of the Cell Transplant Center and the Diabetes Research Institute.

Cardiovascular diseases are one of the most frequent consequence of diseases in diabetics. The Diabetes draws an altered metabolic process by itself, which can lead to that narrow the coronary arteries as a result of deposits in the course of the disease. Because of the increased blood glucose levels, the risk of vasoconstriction in diabetic patients is generally four to six times higher than in non-diabetics. These side effects of the disease are responsible for many heart attacks.

Is particularly high among diabetics, the risk of coronary heart disease. This is due to the fact that here is a arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries colloquially called) is much faster and more intensively developed. The consequence of a poorly controlled metabolism is often an overactive clotting. This means that blood platelets sticky and tend to form clumps more quickly. Represent a serious hazard in addition to the damaged nervous system of diabetic patients. Because of nerve damage, the pain that induces a reduced perfusion of the heart, not perceived. It may be that a heart attack occurs without any warning pain, not being noticed and therefore goes untreated.

Symptoms of coronary heart disease
The symptoms of coronary heart disease are numerous technical. They are regarded as warning signs that something is wrong and a doctor should be consulted. Primary symptoms are pain in the chest and shortness of breath or palpitations or irregular heartbeats. This unusual referred pain in the arms should be, in the jaw or back, tiredness or nausea, heartburn, and excessive sweating will be given more consideration.

Other cardiac complications
But not only with coronary heart disease have to reckon with diabetes. Other complications around the heart are just as widespread. Heart failure occurs, for example also increasingly on people with diabetes. This is due to a thickening, in turn, a stiffening of the walls of the smallest blood vessels and capillaries causes. Because of this failure, the pumping of the heart is significantly reduced. For this reason, diabetics should avoid especially smoking.

Diabetic neuropathy in diabetic patients is often pioneer of a diabetic foot ulcers. Nerve damage can also occur in the nerves that control the heart rate. This is referred to as: cardiac autonomic neuropathy. For the limitation of our heartbeat is the parasympathetic nervous system responsible. If this fails, predominates in the conduct of our heartbeat of the sympathetic nervous system is responsible for the performance. A consistent and not necessary, increased heart rate is the consequence, which in turn causes Frequenzstarre. The slowdown associated with the expiration of the pulse takes place here and not the heart is overwhelmed due to lack of recovery phases. Read the rest of this entry »

A set of United States scientists concluded that eating habits grain of eggs a day can increase the risk of diabetes by 60 percent. In fact, for women, the risk is much higher around 77 percent.

Researchers at Harvard University Medical School and Women’s Hospital Boston, also gave a warning, people with diabetes or type the Second Stage of adult human experience, can suffer from circumstances far more serious if you eat some seeds eggs a day.

They made that conclusion based on research over 57 thousand women and men within 20 years. “The action takes only eat grain of eggs within a week does not give any threat,” said their investigation results published in the latest edition of the journal Diabetes Care.

Along with that, the doctors now recommend that people with diabetes or the Second Stage at risk the virus, limiting eating eggs in just three seeds a week.

“If there’s still interested in making an egg as a main dish, choose one that has the Omega 3 content is higher,” said the doctor.

Although even a source of various sources of vitamins and other benefits, the egg also has high cholesterol and saturated fats not be between the risk of diabetes Second Stage.

Diabetes is a disease that has a blood glucose level is too high due to the failure of the body in use.

There are two types of diabetes, namely the First Stage of failure involving the body to produce insulin and usually occurs before the 40-year-old individual

Second Stage Diabetes refers to the problem of the body can still produce insulin, but not enough. Usually involves people with weight problems that typically arise when they are older than 40 years.

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.