According to Marina Shestakova, director of the Institute of Diabetes at the National Medical Research Center for Endocrinology of the Ministry of Health, if you get rid of excess weight in a timely manner, a person suffering from type 2 diabetes may go into remission. Sometimes it is enough to lose 10 percent of weight.
One of the main causes of type 2 diabetes is obesity. Prevention of the disease is to monitor your weight.
– And if you reduce the spring by 10-15%, then even if he has diabetes, he can go into remission – said Shestakova.
The most common type of complication that accompanies diabetes is blindness. This disease affects the retina. The kidneys are also affected. More than half of the patients in dialysis centers are diabetics.
Leg amputation occurs 20-50 times more often in people with diabetes.
Early signs of type 2 diabetes:
- Constant thirst
- Dry mouth
- Intense hunger
- Frequent urination
- Fatigue
- Slow healing of cuts and wounds
- Blurred vision
- Itching in the genital area.
Factors that increase the risk of developing the disease:
- diabetes mellitus in the family, genetic predisposition,
- excess weight,
- hypodynamia,
- age over 45 years,
- cardiovascular diseases,
- some endocrine diseases,
- High blood pressure
- high cholesterol.
As MedicalForum wrote, according to doctor Ekaterina Demyanovskaya, the development of diabetes mellitus (DM) can be triggered by taking certain medications. She recalled that diabetes is a disease associated with impaired carbohydrate metabolism.
According to nutritionist Mariyat Mukhina, in order to get rid of cravings for food, you need to slightly change your diet and choose the right replacement for sweets and cakes. The doctor advises paying attention to foods rich in chromium. These are whole grain cereals, cheese, nuts. We are also talking about eggs, tomatoes, broccoli, lean meat, offal.
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