[Diabetes] Why do you get diabetes? Understand the symptoms, causes, and prevention of diabetes at once! Be careful with 3 out of 15 habits.

    In the past, when referring to Taiwan’s "national disease", everyone would think of liver disease and kidney disease. However, as the number of people suffering from diabetes exceeded 2 million, diabetes has become a new generation of national disease. But what exactly is diabetes? What are the symptoms of diabetes? How to prevent diabetes? What are the complications and sequel of diabetes? This article can give you one answer.

 

Why do you get diabetes? What is the cause of diabetes?

    After most people eat, glucose is produced in the process of digestion and decomposition of food. When the pancreas feels the stimulation of glucose, it will secrete "insulin" to allow glucose to enter the cells and convert it into energy, so that our body has enough energy for various activity. 

    To put it simply, "diabetes" means that the sugar in the blood increases, but the sugar cannot be turned into calories and cannot be used by the body. It is equivalent to soaking the whole body in the sugar water, but there is no way to get the calories of the sugar water, so it will Always feel very hungry.  

 

There are several reasons why the body cannot use sugar: 

1. Lack of insulin that helps the body use sugar 

2. Unexplained necrosis of islet cells that make insulin

3. Excessive intake of sugar and calories

4. Overweight

5. Have other chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, hyperglycemia or cancer

 

    When these reasons persist for a long time, the body can no longer recover to a state where it can "utilize sugar" normally, and diabetes will develop.

    However, if the body lacks insulin, or if the cells cannot use insulin and produce "insulin resistance," the sugar in the blood cannot enter the cells, causing the body to lack nutrition and at the same time damage blood vessels, thus forming "diabetes."

 

    Therefore, the key reason for diabetes is whether the body has "secreted enough" insulin and whether it can be used "correctly". In addition to diet, its physical quality, exercise, and stress will also affect it. 

3 major factors of diabetes

    Physique: For example, type 1 diabetes is caused by autoimmune problems that cause the body to break down islet cells and cannot produce enough insulin; or if you have had gestational diabetes during pregnancy, the chance of getting diabetes will increase.

    Lifestyle habits such as diet and exercise: If you are used to eating too much, not exercising, taking in too much calories or having too much fat in your body, your pancreas will overwork and cause insulin resistance.

    Stress: Stress can cause endocrine disorders in the body, leading to excessive secretion of stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol, causing insulin resistance.

Does eating more, drinking more, and urinating more mean diabetes? What are the symptoms of diabetes?

    The most frequently mentioned symptom of diabetes is the "three mores", that is, eating more, drinking more, and urinating more. However, as mentioned earlier, diabetes makes the whole body soaked in sugar water, so it is not only these symptoms, but It can cause systemic discomfort, but these symptoms may start from very mild symptoms.

1. Eat more and get hungry easily
2. Drink more
3. Polyuria
4. Skin creases such as underarms and neck become black
5. Fatigue easily
6. Unexplainable weight loss
7. Hot and sweaty body
8. Repeated urethritis
9. Itchy skin
10. Recurring inflammation of the gums
11. Hands and feet are prone to numbness and tingling
12. Blurred eyes
13. Daytime sleepiness

 

Who is particularly susceptible to diabetes? 15 diabetes risks, how many have you hit?

    And in diabetes 3. Among the big factors, it can be further subdivided into 15 risks. In addition to the fact that physical fitness cannot be changed, living habits and stress can all be improved on their own; if 3 of the 15 factors match, it is likely to be a diabetic person. Candidates", if they meet more than 5 items, they may have pre-diabetes and they don’t know it.

1. The second-class relatives have diabetes, or have a family history of diabetes.
2. Have suffered from polycystic ovary or gestational diabetes.
3. Have fatty liver.
4. Body mass index (BMI) above 24, or men’s waist circumference of 90 cm or more, women’s waist circumference of 80 cm or more.
5. Body fat is greater than 30%.
6. Excessive blood lipids and cholesterol (triglycerides greater than 250 mg/dl, low-density cholesterol greater than 130mg/dl, high-density cholesterol less than 40mg/dl)
7. When you are hungry, it is easy to get dizzy and feel easy to hypoglycemia.
8. I have very poor physical strength. I was panting when I climbed the stairs two floors, and I tend to sleep after a meal.
9. Easy to lose weight and lose weight.
10. Like to eat sweets, drink sugary drinks, Western-style snacks.
11. Like to eat refined starches such as white rice and white noodles, and eat less whole grains.
12. I like to eat soups and watery foods, such as soup, risotto, or will clean up vegetable soup and vegetable oil bibimbap.
13. Three meals are often irregular.
14. Long-term lack of sleep, less than 6 hours of sleep, or often staying up late, before going to bed after 11 o'clock in the middle of the night.
15. I often feel a lot of pressure.

    If you find that you have scored 3 items, it is recommended to start to improve your risk of winning the bid, such as adjusting your sleep late, start exercising to lose weight, etc.; if you have scored more than 5 items, it is recommended to go to the Metabolism Department to see a doctor to see your blood pressure, Whether blood sugar and blood lipids are normal values, observe the state of endocrine, follow the doctor's instructions to design a life schedule that you should follow to avoid the real deterioration of diabetes.