Prevention of Diabetes
Prevention of Diabetes Fitness,Health The number of diabetes cases have increased five fold over the past fifty years. An estimated 16 million people in the US have diabetes and $150 billion is spent annually on the treatment of diabetes. But amazingly, almost half of these people don’t even know that they are diabetic. Although diabetes itself is a big enough health problem, the side effects are also ominous. For example, one-third of the new cases of end-stage kidney disease are the result of diabetes. Four out of five patients will die – not from diabetes itself, but from cardiovascular disease (heart attack, stroke, or peripheral vascular disease) initiated by the diabetes. Diabetes is the leading cause of amputations and blindness in older people. Diabetes mellitus has reached epidemic proportions.More than 90% of these cases are known as type-2 diabetes (formerly known as adult-onset diabetes). We must seriously consider what is going wrong. Type-one diabetes used to ...