Recognize the Symptoms of Diabetes

Diabetes has become a rapidly growing pandemic. Most diabetics (diabetes) diagnosed at advanced state. The situation has been further complications in the kidneys, eyes, blood vessels, or nerves. Dangerous than the disease is not only a high blood sugar, but its complications.
If diabetes can be diagnosed early, the chance to control blood sugar would be better so that complications can be avoided. The detection of diabetes, a major, indeed the results of blood sugar. Blood sugar levels by examination after fasting over 126 and blood sugar checks at any time above 200 is called diabetes.
There are three classic symptoms of diabetes is also called 3P, namely:

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Effect of Diabetes on Brain

Diabetes affects the entire body, including the brain. Recent research suggests diabetes  slowing of mental function and increases risk of Alzheimer's disease. Complications that occur in the brain is just one reason why we must control the diabetes.

Scientists are not clear about how type 2 diabetes affects the brain as there are many factors involved.

High blood sugar levels may have a direct impact on the nerve cells or cells in the nervous system suport. It could also cause damage to blood vessels large and small. Another result is to reduce the supply of oxygen to the brain thus increasing the risk of stroke

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Top 5 Ways to Avoid Diabetes

Diabetes is a disease that attacks silently, but the result can be a disaster. That is why it is important for us to check their blood glucose to rise wary.
Although until now no medicine that can cure diabetes, but actually the disease can be prevented. Health experts have found several risk factors that could cause a person suffering from a disease affecting 8.6 million people in Indonesia.
In the latest and largest study, the experts succeeded in formulating the 5 steps of prevention of diabetes. Making one of the following healthy habits known to reduce the risk of developing diabetes. If you are motivated to make three or four steps as your lifestyle, even the risk is reduced by 80 percent.1. Maintain ideal body weight

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7 Simple Ways to Prevent Diabetes

As with other medical conditions, knowledge about how to prevent diabetes is more valuable than cure. Therefore, to have diabetes prevention measures should take precedence. This is especially true if a person has diabetes risk factors that increase the odds of suffering from this disease.

Here are 7 simple ways to prevent diabetes:

1. Maintain a healthy weight.

Most people diagnosed with diabetes (usually type 2) have more weight. Excess weight and body fat increases the risk of diabetes.

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5 Tips to Reduce Diabetes Risk Factors

Nearly 25% of people who have diabetes do not realize if they suffered from the disease. Everyone over the age of 45 years, overweight, or have a family history of diabetes had a risk of type 2 diabetes.

Here are tips on reducing risk factors for type 2 diabetes:

1. Lose weight.

One way to reduce risk factors for diabetes is to lose weight. People aged over 45 years old and overweight (overweight), then the risk of suffering from diabetes will increase drastically.

2. Exercise regularly.

Do exercise at least three to four times a week. Sports is one of the best things you can do to reduce risk factors for diabetes. Regular exercise will help the body use insulin and process glucose better.

3. Check your blood pressure, cholesterol, and HDL levels.

Make checks blood pressure, cholesterol, and HDL levels regularly. If high blood pressure, cholesterol levels over 200, and HDL levels of less than 35, then you are at risk of developing diabetes.

Consult with your doctor about diet and exercise programs are most appropriate. Small changes in diet and exercise can reduce diabetes risk factors significantly.

4. Knowing family health history.

If someone in the family, eg parents or siblings are suffering from diabetes, the risk of diabetes will increase. Diabetes is also more common in Native Americans, African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. If a person is genetically prone to diabetes, then make sure to pay attention to diet, exercise, and regular health examinations to reduce risk factors for diabetes.

5. Make checks diabetes.

If you have a risk of diabetes, do a test or examination of diabetes before symptoms of diabetes. Some symptoms of diabetes include excessive thirst, wounds that never healed, and frequent urination. If a person has diabetes risk and wait until the symptoms of diabetes, the diabetes treatment will not work as well if done before treatment and care.

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Know the Causes of Diabetes Type-1 in Children

The cause of diabetes type 1 in children (juvenile diabetes) is still not known with certainty. In most people with diabetes type-1, the immune system that normally fight harmful bacteria and viruses turned out to destroy insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Genetic factors may play a role in this process and exposure to certain viruses can trigger the occurrence of diabetes type-1 in children.

Whatever the cause, having pancreatic islet cells are destroyed, the child's body will only produce little or no insulin at all. Normally, the hormone insulin helps glucose enter body cells to provide energy to the muscles and tissues. Insulin from the pancreas, a gland located just behind the stomach. When everything is working properly, after eating, the pancreas secretes more insulin into the bloodstream.

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Reviewing History of Diabetes Mellitus

History of diabetes has actually documented for thousands of years. From the first discovered to date, been many breakthroughs in the extent of the disease.

Diabetes: In the beginning

The first mention of diabetes occurred in tahun1552 BC, when Hesy-Ra, an Egyptian doctor, documented the frequent urination as a symptom of a mysterious disease that also causes the sufferer to become thin.

Ancient healers also noted that the ants seem to be interested in the urine of people who have this disease.

In the year 150 AD, Arateus, Greek physicians described what we now call diabetes as a "melting flesh and limbs into urine."

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