Escape from diabetes
Speaking of diabetes, everyone is familiar with it. It is a metabolic disease that is harmful to the health of patients. The most typical symptoms are thirst, drinking more water, urinating more, eating more obviously, but people are getting thinner and thinner. Inadvertently, you will find more and more diabetics around you. In addition to being surprised, people began to worry about whether they were at risk of developing diabetes.
What is diabetes?
The definition of diabetes in western medicine: diabetes is a syndrome caused by hyperglycemia. Abnormal metabolism of glucose, protein and fat is caused by absolute or relative deficiency of insulin secretion, and chronic hyperglycemia is the characteristic of this disease. The clinical manifestations are asymptomatic in the early stage and develop to the symptomatic stage. Clinically, symptoms such as polydipsia, polyphagia, polyuria, fatigue and emaciation may occur, and in severe cases, ketoacidosis may occur.
The prevalence of diabetes in China is increasing year by year. 20 13 professor Ning Guang's research group in Shanghai ruijin hospital reported a survey of 654.38+10,000 people in China in JAMA magazine.
The results show that-in ——20 10/0 years, the estimated prevalence of diabetes in adults aged 18 years and above in China is 1 1.6%, which is about 1. 1 100 million people, and the prevalence of pre-diabetes is as high as possible. This data shows that diabetes has become an important disease that harms the health of Chinese people.
Who is prone to diabetes?
Who is prone to diabetes? The following people are at high risk for diabetes:
1. Age ≥40 years. With the increase of age, the incidence of diabetes increases, and the peak age of prevalence is over 70 years old. At the same time, the prevalence rate of middle-aged people is significantly higher than that of 1990, which is about 6 ~ 8 times of that at that time.
2. Pre-diabetic patients.
3. Overweight, obesity, especially abdominal obesity (waist circumference is greater than 90cm for men and 85cm for women). Obese patients are five times more likely to have diabetes than non-obese patients. Obese people are usually insensitive to insulin, which weakens the ability of insulin to lower blood sugar and is the main cause of type 2 diabetes.
4. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Studies have shown that about half of patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease have abnormal glucose metabolism. Because the liver is the main organ of insulin, when suffering from fatty liver, insulin sensitivity is weakened, leading to diabetes.
5. Sit-in lifestyle.
6. Relatives of diabetic patients. Type 2 diabetes is related to heredity, and people with a family history of diabetes are more likely to get sick.
7. Women who have a history of huge fetal delivery (that is, the birth weight of newborns is greater than 4 kg) or have gestational diabetes.
8. Patients with hypertension and dyslipidemia may also have insulin resistance.
9. Patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. A heart disease study in China shows that 80% of patients with coronary heart disease have elevated blood sugar.
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How to prevent and treat it?
Simply put: shut up and take your legs.
Keep your mouth shut: it means that the daily intake of nutrition should be balanced and the nutritional indicators should reach a reasonable proportion;
Spread your legs: just do moderate exercise according to your physique.
In addition to drug help, you can also eat the following three kinds of "natural insulin"
1, fresh celery and apple juice
The best function of celery is its antihypertensive effect. celery juice is very effective in treating hypertension, such as blushing, head swelling and pain, and excitability. Celery can not only lower blood pressure and purify blood, but also has the functions of invigorating stomach, stopping bleeding, calming nerves, diuresis and inhibiting spasm. It has been used to treat hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, hematuria and irregular menstruation. After celery is squeezed into juice, it is more easily absorbed by the human body, and the curative effect will soon appear. Insist on drinking every day, while blood pressure drops, various symptoms will be alleviated.
Method: Put 10 celery and 10 jujube into 500ml water and boil until only 200ml water remains. Drink twice a day on an empty stomach.
Note: people who are prone to dysentery and are afraid of cold should not drink a lot, so they should reduce the amount of drinking each time and increase the number of drinking.
2. Garlic porridge
Garlic is spicy and irritating, edible and can also be used as medicine to taste. Chinese medicine believes that garlic is pungent and warm, which can enter the spleen, stomach and lungs, warm the spleen and stomach, eliminate symptoms, detoxify and kill insects. Garlic contains 43 sulfur-containing volatiles, 13 sulfinic acid esters (such as allicin), 9 amino acids, 8 peptides, 12 glycosides and10 enzymes. Garlic can promote metabolism, reduce the contents of cholesterol and triglyceride, and has the effects of lowering blood pressure and blood sugar, so it has certain curative effect on hypertension, hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis and diabetes.
Practice: 30g garlic is boiled in boiling water for 1 min, and then taken out. Then put 100g japonica rice into the boiled garlic water to cook porridge, and then add garlic to cook for a while.
3. Apocynum venetum
Apocynum venetum is praised as "Cao Xian" by China people. Apocynum tea has been rigorously tested by five experiments, including anthropology, zoology, toxicology, hygiene and stability, and was approved by the Ministry of Health as the first functional tea for stably regulating blood pressure. The experiment shows that apocynum tea has no toxic or side effects, and has obvious effect of regulating blood pressure, which can obviously improve the symptoms of headache, dizziness, palpitation and irritability in patients with hypertension.
Modern medicine has proved that Apocynum venetum mainly contains flavonoids, cardiac glycosides, various amino acids, quercetin, potassium, calcium, iron, zinc and other trace elements. Its pharmacological components have the effects of lowering blood pressure, reducing blood lipid, strengthening heart and promoting diuresis, calming the liver and calming the nerves, relieving cough and asthma, and resisting inflammation and allergy. What is particularly amazing is that it has the characteristics of bidirectional blood pressure regulation, and it can be drunk even with low blood pressure.
Apocynum tea can not only lower blood pressure, but also repair the damage to heart, brain, liver and kidney organs caused by the continuous increase of blood pressure, effectively prevent and control various complications, and comprehensively reduce the morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Long-term drinking of hypertension patients is expected to get rid of chemical antihypertensive drugs.
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What is diabetes?
Diabetes mellitus is an endocrine and metabolic disorder, which is a chronic hyperglycemia caused by the damage of islet B cells, accompanied by metabolic disorder of fat, protein and water and electrolyte. If it is not treated in time and effectively, it will cause complications of various systems of the human body.
What are the symptoms of diabetes?
Typical symptoms are: "three more and one less", that is, eating more, drinking more, urinating more and losing weight. However, this typical symptom is rare in adults and more common in teenagers and children.
The early symptoms of diabetes in adults and middle-aged and elderly people are not obvious, and most of them are diagnosed as diabetes when complications occur.
For example, the boils on the body are difficult to treat, and the blood sugar is found to be high during the test; The skin has a wound but does not heal, and the blood sugar will rise as soon as it is checked; Hand numbness and foot numbness blurred vision, eye examination found fundus arteriosclerosis, and blood sugar increased after reexamination. If there are clinical symptoms, it means that diabetes has occurred for a long time and the condition is quite serious.
Classification of diabetes:
1. 1 type diabetes: islet function is seriously impaired and insulin is absolutely lacking, also known as insulin-dependent diabetes.
Type II diabetes: partial impairment of islet function, resulting in decreased or relatively insufficient insulin secretion, leading to increased blood sugar.
Third, diabetes caused by other reasons. Such as: rheumatoid arthritis long-term hormone therapy, obesity, hyperthyroidism and so on. These conditions can also cause insulin resistance, impaired islet function and diabetes.
Fourth, gestational diabetes: usually refers to diabetes found during pregnancy (generally in the middle and late pregnancy) called gestational diabetes.
Is urine sugar diabetes?
No! No! Diabetes is high blood sugar at first, and there is sugar in urine but low blood sugar, which is renal diabetes. Due to the decrease of glucose reabsorption function of renal tubules, sugar appears in urine. Renal diabetes is not diabetes, and there are differences between the two treatments.
Is sugar-free food safe to eat?
Any food contains sugar, but the kind and content of sugar are different.
According to the Chinese national standard "General Rules for Labeling prepackaged foods for Special Diets", the requirement of "sugar-free" means that the sugar content of solid or liquid food is not higher than 0.5% (that is, 0.5g) per 100g or 100ml. So "sugar-free" does not mean that the sugar content is 0. In terms of food choice, diabetics can focus on sugar-free foods, but they can't eat without restraint because they are "sugar-free".