Everything you Need to Know about Diabetes (2)

Everything you Need to Know about Diabetes (2)

 

 

How to deal with Diabetes - Treatment & Cure for Diabetes 

If you are diagnosed with any type of diabetes, the first thing you need to know is that you can still lead a happy and safe normal life but with some care & cure, both blended well in your life style. Here is a complete insight of Treatment & Cure for Diabetes that can help you lead a normal happy life with diabetes.

·         Healthy Lifestyle – The basic and foremost rule to survive diabetes is a healthy lifestyle. But if you have been diagnosed with this problem then a healthy lifestyle becomes double important. Healthy food as prescribed by your doctor, mild exercise as suggested, no smoking, no drinking or simply saying - balanced food with good lifestyle can help your greatly to fight back the disease to lead a normal life. No need to think the way that now m diabetic I can’t enjoy my life. Because that is totally a myth. You can still enjoy your life but with some strict care and keeping in mind that ‘Prevention is better than cure.’

·         Medicines & Proper Treatment – Medicines are equally important with a healthy lifestyle. Make regular use of medicine and injections prescribed by the doctor. Make routine checkup on your blood sugar level. Make weekly appointment with your doctor. All such care will help effectively with your cure. Always make available certain technical equipments as subscribed by your doctor for quick access like blood sugar tester, insulin pump etc.

·         Hold up with Support – A mental and emotional support is essential with medications to live up a healthy normal life again. You can join a health club where you will be able to meet people like you suffering from diabetes or you can hire services form a professional HCP (health care professional). An HCP helps his patient to learn about how to manage the diabetes effectively while monitoring the diabetes control for his patient. Such a support from friends, family and professionals will ardently help you to get back to a healthy normal life as soon as possible.

Statistics associated with Diabetes 

Some of the shocking yet true Statistics associated with Diabetes are as follows -

·         Who, the World Health Organization has made a statistic record that almost 200 million people around the world are suffering from diabetes and this number is quite likely to get doubled by the end of the year 2030.

·         According to the World Health Organization, more than 80% of the deaths resulted because of diabetes occur in middle income countries.

·         Moreover as per the reports by National Diabetes Fact Sheet issues in 2011 – here are some revelations almost 8.3% of the population of the USA is suffering from diabetes. Total 7.0 million people are still undiagnosed. 1.9 million People around the age group of 20 years are suffering from diabetes.

·         1 in every 400 children today is suffering from diabetes

·         The World health statistics as provided in the year 2012 says on an average 1 out of 10 adults worldwide has diabetes while 1 out of 3 have high blood sugar level.

·         Obesity today is the root cause of diabetes since almost 12% population of the world is suffering form obesity due to unhealthy lifestyle.

Association report for Indian Diabetes

The association report for Indian Diabetes states that almost 50 million people in India are suffering from diabetes. The reports are result of estimations statistics of the International Diabetes Federation.  In urban areas, the amount is almost as high as 9% while in rural areas it is 3% which leads to the results that India is facing a healthcare crisis today. In India the majority type of diabetes is found of type 2 and that majorly resulting from overweight or obesity problem. 

Food & Fitness for Diabetes Patients 

Food along with fitness plays the crucial role with medications in controlling as well as curing diabetes. A well balanced diet like low fat & high fiber food, as prescribed by the doctor but totally depending on the type and extent of diabetes patient has, along with proper health & fitness maintenance can help person live a normal life in spite of diabetes.

Diabetes Research & Scientific Discoveries

The biggest scientific discovery in the history of diabetes is considered the Invention of Insulin. Before insulin was discovered, diabetes was extremely feared disease that was believed to lead to death. At that time the only way to safe life of a patient was to put him to an immensely strict diet where sugar intake was reserved to minimum. This helps in earning some few years for the life of patients but not sufficient enough to save them.

The invention of insulin was not a result of days of research in the field of diabetes but took long years and contribution from various great scientific people. But the major credit goes to Banting and Macleod who also won Nobel Prize for this in the year 1923. Ever since after that there have been numerous research and scientific discoveries that have helped enormously patients to lead a normal life even after having diabetes. These include invention of blood sugar testers that can be used at home and many more. 

But the research is still going on around the world and hoping for the best, scientists one day will be able to discover the exact cure to remove this disease properly from the world.