The fats in the diet of diabetics

Our daily diet is one of factors that have to control not to suffer any disease linked to eating disorders. But when the diet to Watch is a diabetic, it seems that things get complicated. Nothing is further from reality, because if we set a series of simple guidelines and we combine with imagination and balance, eating is a pleasure.


Many people are diagnosed overweight precisely because they have no care in the nutritional composition of the products they eat. The obesity is the clear winner of a bet without regard for certain types of fats also can cause problems circulatory, muscular and very serious heart disease. Thus we see that a healthy diet is imperative for any human being, whether or not diabetic.

Diabetes and ice cream

When it is summer, Increases the consumption of certain products that are traditionally associated with it, such as ice cream or drinks sweet and drinks: iced, whipped milk... These treats the associate directly with high in sugar and in this sense can be little doubt as to whether its use is suitable or not for people with diabetes.

Having diabetes should not mean having to give up these delicacies dramatically: "As the holiday season should not be a particularly difficult but a period of rest and enjoyment as for everyone else, "says Dr. Alba, an endocrinologist at the Hospital Universitario de Canarias and Editor of Diabetes SED. All they have to keep in mind is that the products they consume contain the information so they know that they can take and which not.

The regime for diabetics

Numerous studies claim that a proper diet helps to reduce the prevalence rates of diabetes. Therefore, food can not be neglected, especially if you suffer from this disease.

The diet of a diabetic must provide caloric intake proportional to its energy requirements and weight. Only the doctor is able to define the meal of a patient with diabetes. Each case is different, depending on physical activity, age and the specific form of diabetes.

The diet of a patient with diabetes must take into account the main food components, namely vitamins, minerals and trace elements. To avoid monotony, occasionally replace one food for another with the same principles. For example, the pod can be replaced by another type of starch.

The menu must be composed of seven major classes of foods, namely fats, vegetables, fish and meat, fruit, cereals and dairy products.

Diabetes and obesity increase the risk of cancer

People with type 2 diabetes or obesity are at increased risk of developing cancer, but mainly increases much more when you have both things at once, mainly by the activity of insulin and the risk of cancer in itself. In a society where almost half of diabetics suffer from obesity, it is important to change this fact. If we can control obesity by lowering the weight decrease cancer risk.

Patients with diabetes should lose weight weight control for better metabolic control of the body. The control of glucose levels in patients with diabetes is essential to avoid damage to the body.

How to assume a treatment of diabetes

Taking a disease is always difficult, ie facing a sudden this guy can reach distress. Therefore, to cope with a disease must be allowed to spend the time to digest the news. A story that will be seen from another perspective as the days go. Today we will focus on a disease that affects a significant percentage of the population and can occur at any age: diabetes. No doubt, it is harder to take the disease to a young person than an adult. Young person feels difficulty in principle when giving up certain habits.

What to do when the doctor diagnoses a patient with diabetes? The first step is to admit the disease, ie not deny reality. Assume that things are as they are and not be changed. Living in denial just invites a person to promote self-pity and shame.

In addition, any patient with depression should also be aware of their weight but yes, without obsessing. A proper weight indicates perfect health.

Fruits and diabetes

Currently, many people with diabetes around the world. This condition is not allowed to eat anything they wanted, and that is why we must try to follow a diet that suits your needs.
One of the most frequent questions we hear is in the section of fruit. What fruits are not recommended in the case of diabetes?

Usually mistakenly believe that many of the usual fresh fruit (mangoes, apples or bananas) have sugar levels that make them "forbidden foods" for diabetics.

More important than choosing the fruit according to their carbohydrate content, is how to respect the limits of daily sugars we eat, and not only in foods are fruit, but in many others.
That is why we should not in any way eliminate the fresh fruit in our diet, and in fact we can take 3 or 4 servings of fruit a day without worry, but that if we keep track of the recommended amounts of carbohydrate.

It is often advised that a portion of fruit for diabetics contains no more than 15 grams of carbohydrates. And how I can know this? Well, taking a simple rule of three the approximate weight of one serving of fruit and its% carbohydrate.

Too hard?
Not so much to give you an idea, some fruits with about 15 grams of carbohydrates are: half a banana, half a mango, half a slice of watermelon, a small apple, a dozen grapes or medium bowl of fruit salad, to name a few.
What we should try to avoid is the fruit in syrup, dry, frosty confit and, for added sugars contain many more fresh fruits.

The World Diabetes Day is a day held an information campaign about diabetes, which is one of the diseases that affect people worldwide. With this campaign that takes place on 14 November each year tries to present the causes, symptoms, treatment and complications associated with this disease, especially in order to prevent or make it more bearable. Each year we report on all these aspects to us aware that diabetes is increasing every year, so we have to do something to prevent it.

The World Diabetes Day is celebrated every year on November 14, as stated above, with this date being the anniversary of Frederick Banting who, along with Charles Best, came to the discovery of insulin in October 1921.
If you feel like this disease and not know what is, something very strange as the most and least knows someone who has diabetes, know that diabetes is a disease in which blood glucose (sugar) of blood are very high.

According to statistics, not in four Spanish has or is willing to develop diabetes, according to results of a comprehensive study released by the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition (SEEN), on the occasion of World Diabetes Day, which is Today marks the 14th November. The day was organized on this occasion under the theme Take control of diabetes, it now and has been promoted by WHO.

According to the WHO, World Health Organization, 300 million people are diabetic and consume 11.6% of global health expenditure.

On the other hand, an encouraging sign as it comes to fitness and diet can be lowered to 50% the risk of diabetes, which would leave in 12.5% ​​of Spanish at risk for diabetes if all we controlled our diet and did exercise.

Artificial pancreas revolutionize the treatment of diabetes

Not all diabetics are insulin dependent, but a large part of them. This condition forces them to have to take insulin shots every day to control blood sugar levels. This is because the body of people with diabetes does not produce insulin or produces too little.
But the daily insulin injections may no longer be necessary due to the creation of Joan Taylor, a professor at De Montfort University in Leicester, England.

This is an artificial pancreas that would have the ability to release preloaded insulin when the body needs it. While the project is still in preclinical testing stage, it could represent one of the greatest advances in history in the treatment of diabetes.

The artificial pancreas would be implanted between the last rib and the hip of the patient and should be refilled with insulin every few weeks. The device is coated by a metallic shell and held in place by a gel barrier. When the body needs more insulin, due to presence of high blood sugar, artificial body gel softens allowing the release into the bloodstream of the right amount of this hormone to reduce glucose levels.

Taylor said: "I realized I could use some protein (not specified) to create a gel that could react to glucose. When exposed to body fluids surrounding the internal organs, the gel reacts according to the amount of glucose present. "

The next step of research will begin clinical trials, probably a few years, so that in 5 to 10 years, the artificial pancreas is available for people with diabetes. According to experts believe, this system would be costly to patients.

Vision loss and diabetes type 2

Researchers have found two new treatments that can slow the progression of vision loss in adults at high risk of type 2 diabetes. The loss of vision, called diabetic retinopathy is caused by damage to blood vessels in the retina. In diabetics with retinopathy, blood vessels can leak and cause the retina to swell.

In the largest study of its kind to date, the trial investigators have followed 2,865 type 2 diabetics. Slightly less than 50 percent of patients had mild retinopathy at the beginning of research. Over a period of four years, the researchers took photographs of the retina, for any changes in blood vessels and progression of retinopathy.

"Many people with diabetes have microvascular problems, which can result in kidney problems and amputations of the fingers and toes, and the only place that allows direct observation of the microvasculature is in the back of the eye," said Walter Ambrose, of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and lead investigator of the ACCORD study. "What we have seen in the eyes, is potentially an indicator of what is happening in other parts of the body."

Study patients received three treatments. Therapy to control and normalize blood sugar, treatments to control blood pressure and lead levels in normal and combination lipid therapy with fenofibrate. The fenofibrate, are cholesterol-lowering drugs, which lower triglycerides stored in the body and raise levels of HDL, also known as good cholesterol.

Combined treatment decreased the progression of visual loss in one third. "Previous clinical trials have shown the beneficial effects of intensive control of blood sugar, to slow the progression of diabetic retinopathy in people with type 1 diabetes or newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes," said Paul Sieving, director of the National Eye Institute.

Diabetes, a disease that fast spreads

Many times people often seen as dangerous only to diseases that are caused by a virus or bacteria. However, there are other conditions that are very negative health and can cause irreversible damage or death, which are not contagious but are generated in the body by different factors.

In this group we find diabetes, a disease considered epidemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) and a threat to global health at the level of other serious diseases such as HIV / AIDS.

According to official data from WHO, in 2000 there were 120 million diabetics worldwide, a figure that is steadily growing, and it is estimated that in 2030 there are  about 366 million people with diabetes in the world.

On the other hand, it is estimated that 8 out of 10 patients with diabetes die from cardiac or cerebral complications and in the next 10 years deaths from this disease could increase by 50%. Meanwhile, the International Diabetes Federation has reported that every 10 seconds a person dies in the world because of diabetes.

Actually these numbers are alarming and are a sign that health-related organizations must do something urgent to stop the spread of this disease. Per, what do to reduce deaths from diabetes?

The first thing to consider is that it is extremely important to have a study of blood sugar at least once a year. Second, know what are the risk factors. People with obesity, lipid abnormalities and hypertension are more prone to this type of metabolic disorder.
In this regard, we note that regular physical activity helps improve management of stocks of sugar in the body.

The symptoms of diabetes

The important thing is to act in time and detect diabetes as early as possible to avoid unnecessary risks. Therefore, today, we focus on the symptoms of diabetes, those elements that can make you suspect that you suffer.

The main symptoms of diabetes highlights thirst. People with diabetes often have thirst. Also, diabetics are hungry, because the cells can not detect the glucose from food, have much appetite.
Similarly, another symptom to note is the change that occurs in your skin. This is a most significant signal that warns of a possible diabetes, since an excess of sugar can generate a skin infection.

Also other symptoms of diabetes is weight loss, but have not stopped eating or have followed a diet. You may also have stomach pains and heartburn. On the other hand, people with diabetes often feel tired, actually derived from the difficulty for the body to convert glucose into energy.

We can also find other symptoms such as blurred vision, as if you saw a small cloud.
Bear in mind the desire to urinate, because the kidney does not filter properly and you feel like going to the bathroom constantly and so we must add that the nails lose their strength and begin to fall or break off.

Lately, we note that another symptom that warns of a possible diabetes is when you smell the breath can be because you have diabetes, ie halitosis.
It is important to control the sugar level to avoid problems and believe that you star in these symptoms, see your doctor for proper treatment prompted the situation.