Showing posts with label diabetes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diabetes. Show all posts

Saturday, June 23, 2012

8 Tablespoons of Sugar a Day is Poison

For owners of high blood sugar levels are prone diabetes, whether the sugar to be poisons. Health experts even say, the sugar can already called poison if consumed more than 8 teaspoons per day.
Especially for people with diabetes are difficult to process sugar, the condition is very dangerous because it can lead to various complications including heart problems. Is it true that the 8 tablespoons of sugar a day is poison?

Although safer than corn sugar, granulated sugar still not more secure. Endocrinologist from the University of California, Dr. Robert Lustig said any form of sugar remains dangerous if consumed in excess.

"Sugar in the form of fructose and sucrose are equally bad and dangerous to health. Both are poison to the body, "Dr. Lustig said as quoted by FoxNews.

However, sugar consumption actually increased in the last 30 years. As a result, not only the number of obese people are increasing, but also people with type 2 diabetes is mainly triggered by an unhealthy diet.
Moreover, most of whom do not realize the kind of sugar is consumed. Various types of processed foods in the country are still using corn sugar, while consumers rarely pay attention to the labels listed in the package when buying.

Dr. Lustig says, the consumption of sugar in any form should not exceed 8 teaspoons a day. Various types of chronic diseases commonly found in the United States because the people in the country consume an average of 4 times more sugar than is recommended.

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Effect of Diabetes on Sexual Intercourse

Often coming issues surrounding sexual disorders. This problem can occur due to physical and mental factors are the longer, would damage the marriage relationship. Some physical illnesses can decrease the ability of each partner sexuality. On this issue we will describe one type of disease, the effect of diabetes on sexual intercourse

How diabetes will affect your sexual life or otherwise? Research shows, twenty-five percent of all women with diabetes and about 50 percent of men will experience some kind of sexual problems or loss of sexual desire as a result of their condition.

In men
Long-term impact of diabetes in men can cause damage to the nervous system, which is involved in the complex process of erection. The possibilities of men with diabetes may suffer from erectile dysfunction (ED) and are unable to obtain or maintain an erection. About one third of men with diabetes will experience impotence at the end.

Even, some men are finding out that they have diabetes when they seek treatment of their erectile dysfunction related problems. But you need not worry, this can be overcome by setting the proper diet and supported by the consumption of drugs or insulin.

In women
A number of women with diabetes may suffer from recurrent vaginitis (vaginal inflammation), which is usually caused by fungal infections. This condition will make sexual intercourse uncomfortable and painful. Even in some women, may experience itching or burning sensation, and a white discharge.

Women with diabetes also get recurrent cystitis - a disease of Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). In addition, some evidence suggests that women with diabetes tend to have problems with arousal, and the clitoris (the nerve center of the female sex) may not respond to stimuli in the usual way.

Is it possible to have sex after suffering from diabetes?

Diabetes is likely to cause problems with your sex life. Quick steps immediately consult with a doctor. Typically, doctors will try to find out whether sexual problems are caused by defects in the nervous or circulatory system due to diabetes, or whether it is more due to psychological factors. Often these differences are difficult to group them.

In any case, when the problem of sexual dysfunction began to occur regularly and are likely to deteriorate, so will the psychological factors involved in it.

Men who have diabetes and impotence can be helped with medication prescribed by doctors such as sildenafil (Viagra), tadalafil (Cialis) and vardenafil (Levitra). However, if the test results indicate that your nervous system has not been damaged by diabetes, and no circulatory problems are related, then you really do not have problems with their sex lives. It takes the support of partners and doctors to cope with this condition.

Friday, June 8, 2012

Benefits Drinking Tea May Lower Diabetes

Obvious benefits of drinking tea have been known to many people. It was weird if it did not know about the benefits of drinking tea, for health. This time the one thing about isue the benefits drinking tea may lower diabetes or high blood sugar levels.
This is good news for you lovers of tea. Recent research indicates, drinking tea can help lower the risk of type 2 diabetes, but only if you drink four cups or more each day.

A population study in Europe found that the countries who drank four cups of tea daily average of people in the United Kingdom, have a risk 20 percent lower risk of type 2 diabetes. 
Researchers said the benefits of drinking tea seems most evident among heavy tea drinkers (4 or more cups a day). While those who drank one to three cups a day does not have a reduced risk of diabetes. 

The research team led by Christian Herder of the Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany, said previous research shows tea consumption was associated with a lower incidence of type 2 diabetes.

"Obesity is a major risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes, but dietary factors may also play a role. One interesting factor is the consumption of diet tea. Tea consumption may lower risk of type 2 diabetes affect the digestion of glucose, glucose absorption, and to protect the beta cells from free radical damage. this beneficial effect may be caused by the content of polyphenols in tea, "said Herder. 

"Drink at least four cups of tea per day was associated with a 20 percent lower risk, while drinking one to three cups per day did not lower the risk of diabetes compared with non-tea drinkers," he added.

But the bottom line, not the consumption of sweet tea, but black tea and green tea without sugar, which affects the reduction in diabetes. Mimum high-intensity, 3-5 times a day. Diabetes is not curable but with a strict diet.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Lack of Sleep Risk Diabetes

What are the causes of diabetes, most people respond less healthy diet and excess intake of glucose in the body. Particularly lack of exercise behavior that causes glucose in the body accumulate deposits so as disrupting insulin hormone. Apparently there is a trivial matter and can lead to diabetes, namely 'lack of sleep'. Recent research again shows the relationship between lack of sleep and the risk of diabetes. In their research, scientists from the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston found, inconsistent sleep schedule or sleep deprivation can increase the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes.


When the studies, researchers monitored 21 healthy people, who all live in a sleep laboratory for nearly six weeks, in which the cycles of sleep, diet and activity are all controlled by the researcher.
Research has shown that participants are only allowed to sleep for about six hours a night and experienced a shift in the cycle sleep / wake has a blood glucose level is higher and tends to slow down the metabolic process.

"The level of glucose is higher for long periods of time on some of the participants could be increased to pre-diabetes," said the researcher. These findings were published on 11 April 2012 in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

"There are many things that play a role regarding the relationship between lack of sleep and obesity," said Dr. Vivian Fonseca, chief of endocrinology at Tulane University School of Medicine, who was not involved in this study. Fonseca said the latest study shows that the levels of hormones in the body of a person likely to be altered by lack of sleep. This could help explain why those who sleep less are very prone to obesity.

Sleep and blood glucose relation
In the study, researchers conducted blood tests to measure levels of several hormones, including insulin, cortisol (stress related), and leptin and ghrelin (which relate to regulate appetite). They found that disrupted sleep schedules cause a decrease in 32 percent of the amount of insulin released in the body after eating. Insulin is a key hormone in the regulation of blood glucose.

"The decline in insulin levels is one explanation of how the disruption or lack of sleep can cause diabetes," said Lisa Rafalson, a professor of pediatrics and family medicine at the University at Buffalo. Rafalson revealed an increase in stress hormones that kept awake the body can cause hormonal imbalances.
"Insulin can not perform their duties efficiently, so you end up getting the remaining excess glucose in the bloodstream," he said.

While the latest findings, the researchers did not notice any changes in hormone levels gheriln (which increases appetite) on the sleep-deprived participants. Whereas some previous studies showed that sleep deprivation can lead to higher levels of the hormone ghrelin and leptin are lower.

Diabetes Can Threaten Children


Diabetes is a disease caused by excess blood sugar in the body and the imbalance of the  insulin hormone. Diabetes threatening to adults because of unhealthy eating patterns. Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic disease which the number of cases continues to increase worldwide. Diabetes is now no longer an enemy of adults, but also diabetes can threaten children.

Department Pediatrics of Medicine Faculty , University of Indonesia  estimates, the number of children with diabetes showed a tendency to continue rising in recent years. In 2011, then for example, at least 65 children with diabetes were recorded, up 400 percent from 2009. Of that amount, a total of 32 children suffering from type two diabetes.

any person who does not have a healthy lifestyle can be attacked by the disease diabetes. Therefore, a healthy lifestyle should be maintained with food and a healthy diet and regular exercise can be controlled so that sugar levels and avoid diabetes.

Some studies suggest that, in managing children with diabetes type 2 is generally more difficult than in adults. Most cases of diabetes in children is caused due to obesity. If the parents are not aware of this threat early on, it can tend to be less effective treatment.

Why not be effective? Because the provision of drugs in children with diabetes will usually be more difficult than adults because a child is more difficult to manage, let alone the gift must be made continuously in the long run. Need psychological approach. Due to different treatment in children and adults.

The results showed type 1 diabetes usually occurs more frequently in children, where there is a shortage of insulin in the body due to damage to the pancreas by an autoimmune process. Damage to the pancreas is generally only cause symptoms after the destruction of pancreatic cells reached 90 percent or more.

Common symptoms of children with type 1 diabetes is usually similar to the symptoms of diabetes in adults. Children became frequent urination, incontinence, hungry fast, easy thirst, and weight loss.

There are four pillars of the handling of Type 1 diabetes in children. Pillars, namely the injection of insulin, meal arrangements, monitoring blood sugar and education. Therefore, the treatment of type 1 diabetes in children requires a comprehensive approach from parents, medical experts and psychiatrists.

So before getting diabetes in children, there should be education for lifestyle and healthy eating. Instant foods often trigger blood sugar is not good, active move is a good action for the development and children's health