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Meals

Overeating is not good, it is always best to allocate various portions of meals and time difference.

The fats are quite harmful for diabetics, so the idea is to eliminate as much as possible. To do this, you can eat lean cuts of meat, remove the chicken skin, always drink skim milk and complete eradication of sausage consumption.

Fiber is essential to maintain good nutrition, and in particular is very benevolent in cases of diabetes and glycemic control that helps. Foods that are rich in fiber are those such as bread, biscuits and pasta, beans and legumes (beans), fruits and vegetables.

Before listing and ranking foods can or can not take people with diabetes, it is worth remembering that the salt should be used sparingly, you should not take more than a glass of wine a day and should be avoided, as far as possible, soft drinks containing sugar. The sugar may be replaced by sweeteners, but always with caution and without excess. Read the rest of this entry »

Diabetes is a very common disease, and has been shown that there is a strong relationship between overweight and this condition so it is very important to control over food.

Diabetes is a metabolic disorder, the process that converts the food we eat into energy. Insulin is the most important factor in this process. During digestion food is broken down to create glucose, the main source of fuel for the body. This glucose enters the bloodstream, where insulin allows you to enter cells. (Insulin is a hormone secreted by the pancreas, a gland behind the stomach-).

In people with diabetes, one of two components of this system fails:

The pancreas does not produce or produces too little insulin (Type I)

The body’s cells do not respond to insulin that is produced (Type II). Read the rest of this entry »

The results of a study by a team of doctors from the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, suggest that eating 2 or more servings of fish per week would increase slightly the risk of diabetes.

Diet is a key factor in preventing the onset of diabetes in adults, but it is unknown how the consumption of omega-3 fatty acids increases the risk of developing the disease, explains to Dr. Frank B. Hu. Read the rest of this entry »

Walking activity apparently provides many benefits for health. Soles of the feet with a lot of nerve center, will be healthier with frequent foot.

According to some studies, the activity of walking can keep your health and can ward off diseases such as:

Stroke

Walking can facilitate the circulation of blood circulation in the body, thus minimizing the risk of blood clots in the body.

Diabetes

All people of course do not want to have the disease in the body, especially diabetes. Based on this research the National Institute of Diabetes and Kidney Diseases Gigesive &, someone who used to frequent exercise by walking a distance of about 6 km per hour in about 50 minutes, it can reduce the risk of Type 2 Diabetes.

Prevent Osteoporosis

According to research, those who frequently exercise early age and consume calcium regularly, until they are 70 years old is expected to be free from the threat of bone loss and still can work normally.

Whether low or high values of your >LDL cholesterol levels are determined by many factors, including:

* Diet,
* Body weight,
* The level of physical activity,
* Age (cholesterol increases with age)
* Sex (men have cholesterol levels higher),
* Alcohol consumption,
* Heredity.

The consumption of foods high in saturated fat and dietary cholesterol is another cause of elevated cholesterol. Other factors can also increase your cholesterol, including lack of physical activity and overweight. In some cases, high cholesterol is a genetic disorder hereditary designated familial hypercholesterolemia. This disorder makes you more liable to contract heart disease when you’re still very young.

Medical conditions such as diabetes, hypothyroidism, liver disease and kidney disease can cause elevated cholesterol.

Diabetes comes from Latin and Greek διαβήτης it (diabetes) which means ‘run through’. Δια Compound (dia-): ‘through’, and βήτης (betes): ‘run’; διαβαίνειν derivative (diabaínein): ‘cross’. It refers to “fast pace” of water due to thirst and frequent urination.

A BIT OF HISTORY:

In the first century Greek philosopher Arateus the Cappadocian referred to this disease for the first time here, alluding to ‘step’ urine polyuria (passing large amounts of urine) caused by diabetes.

In later centuries is not in medical writing references to this disease, until in the eleventh century, the Uzbek physician and philosopher Avicenna (980-1037) speaks with clear precision of this disease in his famous Canon of Medicine.

After a long interval was Thomas Willis who, in 1679, gave a masterly description of diabetes for the time being since recognized their symptoms as a clinical entity. It was he who, referring to the sweet taste of urine, gave the name diabetes mellitus (diabetes flavored honey), despite that fact had already registered nearly a thousand years earlier in India, around 500 .

Dopson in 1775 identified the presence of glucose in urine. Frank, at that time also classified into two types of diabetes: diabetes mellitus (or diabetes vera), and diabetes insipidus (because the latter did not present the sweet urine).

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