For those who are not familiar with diabetes, it is a group of disorders which is characterized by the chronic high blood sugar levels which are scientifically known as hyperglycemia because our body failed to produce enough insulin which uses for the regulation of high glucose levels in our body because of the food that we eat.
There are actually two types of diabetes, type 1 diabetes which is often found in children and adolescents which causes the body to fail to produce insulin while type 2 diabetes occurs when the body’s ability to react properly to insulin fails or in other term insulin resistance.
Type 2 diabetes is actually the more prevalent type of diabetes compared to the type 1 diabetes where almost a hundred per cent of most cases of diabetes are being diagnosed especially those people who reach the age of forty, but, according to recent scientific research, there is actually children and adolescent that develops type 2 diabetes which is very alarming.
For you to know, the impact of diabetes goes way beyond as a chronic hyperglycemia, because these diseases became the leading cause of blindness, kidney diseases, and non-traumatic lower extremity amputations for adults. People who suffer from diabetes have a higher percentage of likely experience cardiovascular complications and fatally a stroke. Diabetes is also a fatal disease as it is the cause of an estimated 200,000 fatalities every year making it one of the major causes of mortality in many developed countries such as the United States.
In this article, let me tell you how your weight affects and correlates to developing type 2 diabetes. It is important to learn how weight contributes to developing diabetes and how it also prevents diabetes from developing. I hope you take time for this awesome read.
There are actually a lot of risk factors for developing a type 2 diabetes, it can either come from ageing, race, during pregnancy, stress, or from certain medications, genetics, or family history and of course obesity. However, the most notable factor that mainly contributes to developing type 2 diabetes is being overweight or being obese.
There is a very high percentage of people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are either overweight or obese. Obese is not necessarily described as a person who appears extra large physically, there are people who do not really look that large, but they are already above their prescribed weight. Obesity is simply being overweight which contributes to appear being larger than a person whose weight is normal.
Obesity adds more pressure to our body’s ability to utilize the insulin deposit in a proper way to control the level of your blood sugar, therefore, these people who are obese are very prone to developing diabetes.
When you feel being overweight and have some similar symptoms of a diabetic, there is no reason to be hopeless. There are actually a lot of ways to prevent diabetes from developing in your body. It can be prevented actually by changing your overall lifestyle which includes your diet, your daily routine, your outlook on your overall health and of course, commitment.
