Why try to prevent diabetes if you'll get it anyway?!


Question: Why try to prevent diabetes if you'll get it anyway?
My whole family has it, so is there even a point in trying to prevent getting it...

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Indeed there are reasons. Anyone with a family history of diabetes, anyone who is overweight, has high blood pressure, a history of gestational diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy), low HDL (good cholesterol), high triglycerides, and anyone of Hispanic, Asian, native American or African-American descent is at risk.

What can be done after a diagnosis of pre-diabetes? It’s a relief to know that a diagnosis of pre-diabetes does not mean you will get diabetes — it simply means you’re at a greater risk of developing the disease. The good news is that if you know you have the condition, there are lifestyle changes and medications that may help prevent or delay the progression of type 2 diabetes. Accept this diagnosis as a gift and get to work!

A loss of 10 to 15 pounds and 30 minutes of exercise five days a week will decrease the risk of getting diabetes. Even if you lose only seven percent of your body weight, you will reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 58 percent, according to the Diabetes Prevention Program. This is because working muscles use more glucose than muscles at rest. With continued moderate exercise, your muscles take up glucose at almost 20 times the normal rate, and this lowers blood sugar levels. This doesn’t imply strenuous activity – going for a brisk walk at a pace that enables you to hold a conversation will do the trick.

Exercise is free medication. It helps you to burn excess body fat, help to lose weight, improve muscle strength, lower blood pressure, increase HDL (good cholesterol) and lower LDL (bad cholesterol).

Eat as if you already have diabetes — it’s how we should be eating anyway.

Another important reason you have a life to look forward to a family, children, a wife, a home, your education, a good job, and God's gift to you....a life. You want to have these things in good health and not deter this road of life you have to travel by neglecting your health and just giving up it would';t be fair to you or your future to end up disabled and unable to do the things someone at your age can do and your reason.....giving up. Don't do it your life is important especially a healthy one. I hope your family is taking care of themselves its so important for themselves and as role models to their children.

Hope this helps.



> is there even a point in trying to prevent getting it

Yes.
1. I can't get health coverage because I was diagnosed with diabetes. I wish I could just get health coverage without coverage for diabetes, but no, that's not offered because all sorts of other health problems are statistically more likely for someone with diabetes.
2. With diet and exercise you may never get type 2 diabetes at all. So taking a 10 minute walk twice a day can save you money and grief later on. Also, skip anything sugary -- no sodas, no doughnuts, no cakes, no candies.



Certainly there is!! for one thing you can postpone it for many years by taking action now. The more time you spend trying to prevent the onset, the less time you will spend taking the medications and having excellent control when you do. You will also prevent the horrid side effects that happen to people who do not know they are at risk until the doctor slams them with a boatload of medications.

These include damage to your heart, liver, kidneys, fingers and toes along with your eyesight.

So start now working toward preventing it for many years by watching your foods and exercising like a demon.



That's definately discouraging. Maybe you can sucessfully avoid it, maybe you can't. But even prolonging its onset until later in your life is KEY. Even though diabetes is managable, and a person with it can still live a functional life, the long term complications are very serious. The sooner you get it, the more time these complications have to develop (ie: blindness). If diabetes starts later in life, the complications you experience before having a natural, elderly death may be minimal.

Don't give up.



In view of serious repercussions of high blood sugar levels, damage to heart, eyes, kidneys, etc., it is prudent to prevent it. Prevention is better then cure.
Any ways, since Ur entire family is affected by diabetes, it is prudent to know the real symptoms to prevent it in advance, before it is too late.

Real Symptoms of Diabetes:
. Sudden loss of weight,Severe pain in calf muscles [below knee joints], reeling sensation after heavy lunch/dinner, unhealed wounds/injuries/gum infections, excessive thirst/hunger, excessive urination, blurred vision, frequent burning sensation/numbness in hands/legs and above all tensions add to the chief symptoms of diabetes.but, don't worry. see a doctor at once.
Source:

'Health In Ur Hands' by Dr.Devendra Vora vol.i & ii. Available all over the globe & in all Indian Languages + Braille lipi, Germany and the French. Dr.Vora, the world renowned Acupressurist, an octogenarian and the Bhishma Pithamaha of acupressure in India, wrote the books, after treating and caused to treat more than 150000 cases of Cancer, HIV/AIDS, Diabetes, and many other most dreaded diseases--



My whole family also has it.. but I don't. I don't because I do the things I need to do to keep it away. I have watched them suffer and deteriorate. Anything I can do to prevent it from happening to me, or even to give myself more time is worth it!



You can delay the onset and slow down the progress, which will give you more treatment options and make your blood sugar easier to control. Also, you're not necessarily destined to get it. You just don't know. Genes don't always behave predictably.




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