Prediabetes refers to the phase before a person develops diabetes, where blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not high enough for the person to be diagnosed with diabetes. Modern lifestyle has a major role in improving prediabetes factors in the community.
Early-onset diabetes (either type 1 or type 2 diagnosed early in life) is associated with a host of health complications, including heart disease, kidney failure, and blindness. Type 1 diabetes accounts for about 10 percent of all diabetes. Because injected insulin is necessary to manage the disease, type 1 diabetes requires intensive day-to-day attention to stay safe and healthy. The other 90 percent of diabetes is type 2 diabetes, which was once referred to as “adult onset” because it almost always affected adults, but now unfortunately is also affecting children due to the escalating rates of childhood obesity.
While you can’t control the genes you were born with, type 2 diabetes is largely a preventable disease (up to 90 percent of cases may be attributable to lifestyle habits), and a number of lifestyle risk factors can potently increase your risk for developing it. Unfortunately, every one of these risk factors, summarized below, is common in our modern life style:
• Obesity. Obesity and weight gain dramatically increase the risk of type 2 diabetes and are considered the strongest contributors to the explosion of this disease in the US population.
• Physical inactivity. Independent of whether someone is overweight or obese, physical inactivity increases diabetes risk.
research has identified the following factors as playing a significant role:
• Fat cells secrete fatty acids that contribute to insulin resistance in the liver and muscles of obese people.
• Fat cells secrete a large number of proteins that affect glucose (“blood sugar”) metabolism and insulin action.
• Obesity increases inflammation in the body, which is closely tied to diabetes.
The physiological stress of obesity on the body seems to worsen insulin resistance in the cells and may reduce the pancreas’s ability to secrete enough extra insulin to overcome this resistance, which leads to higher blood sugars.
• Cigarette smoking. This habit is associated with a small increased risk of diabetes.
Smokers are at higher risk of diabetes than nonsmokers, possibly because of the increased inflammation that cigarette smoke causes in the body.20 Smoking has been shown to cause elevations in blood glucose levels and may worsen insulin resistance. Smokers tend to have more abdominal fat, also associated with insulin resistance.
• Low fiber diet. Eating a diet low in fiber and high in processed foods increases risk.
• Saturated fats. Results of human studies are mixed, but according to the Archives of Internal Medicine, studies suggest that diets high in saturated fats may worsen insulin resistance and increase diabetes risk.14
• Sugar-sweetened beverages. Regular consumption of these beverages has been shown to increase type 2 diabetes risk.
Early-onset diabetes (either type 1 or type 2 diagnosed early in life) is associated with a host of health complications, including heart disease, kidney failure, and blindness. Type 1 diabetes accounts for about 10 percent of all diabetes. Because injected insulin is necessary to manage the disease, type 1 diabetes requires intensive day-to-day attention to stay safe and healthy. The other 90 percent of diabetes is type 2 diabetes, which was once referred to as “adult onset” because it almost always affected adults, but now unfortunately is also affecting children due to the escalating rates of childhood obesity.
While you can’t control the genes you were born with, type 2 diabetes is largely a preventable disease (up to 90 percent of cases may be attributable to lifestyle habits), and a number of lifestyle risk factors can potently increase your risk for developing it. Unfortunately, every one of these risk factors, summarized below, is common in our modern life style:
• Obesity. Obesity and weight gain dramatically increase the risk of type 2 diabetes and are considered the strongest contributors to the explosion of this disease in the US population.
• Physical inactivity. Independent of whether someone is overweight or obese, physical inactivity increases diabetes risk.
research has identified the following factors as playing a significant role:
• Fat cells secrete fatty acids that contribute to insulin resistance in the liver and muscles of obese people.
• Fat cells secrete a large number of proteins that affect glucose (“blood sugar”) metabolism and insulin action.
• Obesity increases inflammation in the body, which is closely tied to diabetes.
The physiological stress of obesity on the body seems to worsen insulin resistance in the cells and may reduce the pancreas’s ability to secrete enough extra insulin to overcome this resistance, which leads to higher blood sugars.
• Cigarette smoking. This habit is associated with a small increased risk of diabetes.
Smokers are at higher risk of diabetes than nonsmokers, possibly because of the increased inflammation that cigarette smoke causes in the body.20 Smoking has been shown to cause elevations in blood glucose levels and may worsen insulin resistance. Smokers tend to have more abdominal fat, also associated with insulin resistance.
• Low fiber diet. Eating a diet low in fiber and high in processed foods increases risk.
• Saturated fats. Results of human studies are mixed, but according to the Archives of Internal Medicine, studies suggest that diets high in saturated fats may worsen insulin resistance and increase diabetes risk.14
• Sugar-sweetened beverages. Regular consumption of these beverages has been shown to increase type 2 diabetes risk.
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