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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.

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 »

For a diabetic most important thing is to control blood sugar levels and prevent blood sugar to rise and rise to unknown heights. It is therefore very important to know what foods raise sugar and what not. Read on and you know some details and information on products for diabetics.

Thus, these products will help you choose the one most get benefits for you and also to avoid. As always keep in mind that diabetes is a balancing act between what you eat (caloric intake) and what you spend (caloric expenditure).

So if you burn more than you can afford to eat more, but at least do less physical activity should eat. Yet not all people are of the same constitution and are more or less vulnerable to undergo a series of changes in your body with more or less easily.

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Diabetes is a disease that may have people of all ages (currently affects almost 220 million human beings in the world, said months ago this health blog). Then there will be a newspaper article about what there is to know about diabetes.

Diabetes is defined as a metabolic disorder that involves having blood glucose (sugar) levels above the levels set. Is taken as normal blood levels between 70 and 100 mg / dl fasting. When levels exceed these values, in chronic form begins with lesions in organs like the heart, eyes, kidneys, nerves, feet and blood vessels.

Importantly, there are different types of diabetes: Type 1 diabetes is characterized by the absence of synthesis of insulin in type 2 diabetes which has its origin in the body’s inability to effectively use the insulin (the most common and can be prevented) and the so-called “gestational diabetes” which was first discovered during the stage of pregnancy.

In another vein, it is necessary to add that there are certain factors that are associated with diabetes, obesity, stress, poor diet, family history and / or hypertension.

People with diabetes may reduce these risk factors and live a normal life. For this, you must acquire some patterns of behavior such as physical exercise, a controlled medication, a balanced diet as well as having a regular medical checks.

Explains research materials for the realization of this note, which was compiled by the website Cardiosalud.org, patients with this disease can achieve a good quality of life depending on the habits they acquire.

It is important to add that this disease affects about 220 million people, according to official figures published on the website of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the occasion of World Diabetes Day, which were published months ago in this blog.

Recently, in our health blog, we told you that stress is the epidemic of XXI century. Well, on this occasion, we have seen that there is another important relationship, diabetes, epidemic, as it is a disease that is widespread in society.

The truth, we can say that diabetes is an epidemic, since according to IDF (International Diabetes Federation) have it about 246 million people worldwide, a tremendous figure.

But for those who wonder what diabetes is, we can say that it is a chronic disease that is characterized by blood sugar levels high. To counter this excess sugar, diabetics (some, we) have to take insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas and is necessary for life.

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People with diabetes are always increasing in number from year to year. Countries rarely have reduced the number of diabetes population. But Singapore did it and maybe it was exemplary Indonesia. What’s the secret?

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Having diabetes does not mean you can not eat sweets. Nor does it mean you can not eat sugar, but it is true that sugar intake is very restricted for diabetics because it is the type of carbohydrate that is absorbed faster and more raises the level of glucose in the blood, says voanoticias. com nutritionist Andrea Nebel, a member of the Uruguayan Society of Nutrition in Diabetes.

“It is not banning sugar by a diabetic can save in the case of hypoglycaemia. But it should be handled. Consumer is not free, “says nutritionist.

The same explains the American Diabetes Association: “Doctors used to recommend people with diabetes to avoid sugar. They thought that sugar consumption levels would cause the blood glucose level very fast. We know that all carbohydrates affect blood glucose levels in the blood almost to the same extent. ”

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16 years ago that Raul Besio ophthalmologist and other members of his family live pendant alarm diabetic daughter.

When it rings in the morning and hear that she goes out, you know it’s okay. But when the alarm is still ringing insistently, he or someone in your house has to run away because her daughter is probably in a hypoglycemic coma.

“My daughter is 28, is a doctor. And living at home, aged 12 years and we are, “Raul told a voanoticias.com Besio.

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“Diabetes is the enemy of sexuality.” Santiago said so Cedrés, clinical sexologist Uruguayan was in September at the World Congress of the International Society for Sexual Medicine in South Korea. And one of the main topics of this meeting was precisely the impact of diabetes on sex, both men and women.

Cedrés presented research conducted at the Medical Center Sexological Plenus, which he directs, in which he found that diabetic men have a chance “four times more likely to have erectile dysfunction, and diabetic women a chance” three times to experience low in vaginal lubrication. ”

The study was done among 140 patients (70 men and 70 women) between 40 and 60 and treated for type II diabetes. In the course of five months of work, Cedrés found that “all patients” some type of sexual dysfunction, either loss of sexual desire, erectile dysfunction, loss of lubrication, less testosterone than expected for age and anorgasmia. And these failures were linked to the disease.

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Controlling diabetes is closely related to food. Usually, when a person is diagnosed with this disease, faces to the problem of changing their eating habits.

However, food that requires a person with diabetes is the same as any person with intent to lead a healthy life should be.

The key to good balance and blend of proteins, carbohydrates and fats.

The common idea is to think that diabetes can not eat sugar, but this is not true.

Recent studies show that diabetics can eat sugar as long as, maintain balance between the rest of the carbohydrates consumed in other foods.

In short, they can eat everything. The only difference is that they should be more aware of the amount of food they consume, because they need to keep your glucose levels controlled.

It is also necessary to seek a balance between the type of food, insulin and medication, and physical activity.

If you have diabetes, your best bet is to go to a doctor dietitian, who will recommend a diet according to their type of diabetes and also thinking about their personal tastes.