Time bomb sugar

Anyone who is diabetic, a long time feels quite well. Only now and then people with diabetes are flabby. But, they think it may eventually have many reasons. That they are diabetic, perhaps, they are not likely. For the first type 2 diabetes makes no complaints. With bad values ​​come later. Because too much sugar in the blood damages the arteries in the long run. Diseases and causes of eye, heart and kidneys.


Unfortunately the body does not report when too much sugar in the blood circulates. The alarm system does not respond to pain. Just remember at the beginning of the disease affected not know what is happening in their bodies. Discovered only after a check-up or before surgery the doctors accidentally elevated blood sugar levels.

Of diabetes doctors talk but only when the blood sugar levels are too high permanently. In people with type 2 diabetes is the case. Because their body cells do not respond properly to insulin. This hormone is responsible as a key to open the door to the cells to absorb sugar as an energy donor. In type 2 diabetes, this key hooks over the years, sometime it does not fit anymore.

In response, the pancreas produces at the beginning of the disease, too much insulin to inject yet more sugar to the cells. But over time the body's cells become increasingly less sensitive to the hormone. At some point, experts suspect, from the overworked insulin-producing cells burn and produce less or no insulin. The sugar stays in the blood and damages the veins in the long run, particularly those in the eyes, kidneys, nerves and heart. Therefore, the infarction and stroke in people with diabetes is twice to four times higher than in healthy subjects.
The genes they beat a trick!

For more than seven million people in Germany were already diagnosed with diabetes. Ninety percent of them suffer from Type 2, known as adult onset diabetes. Experts estimate that 18 to 28 percent of people aged 60 and over have diabetes - including more men than women. From the 70th Life revolves around the relationship, however.

Whether you get diabetes type 2, determined a combination of heredity and lifestyle. The genes alone, at least not all seal their fate. If you are not overweight and move around a lot, maybe you can manage to hit one over your predisposition to diabetes.

Studies show that not 50 percent of people with diabetes have an increased risk for diabetes because they are moving a lot and stayed on their weight. Particularly at risk, however, women who develop diabetes during their pregnancy or have had a child are that weighed more than four pounds. Twelve percent of these women are in the course of six years after the birth of diabetes.

It's best to let your sugar levels checked regularly by your doctor. For it is better to detect diabetes early, and not just when he has already done damage. Are you older than 35 years, paid for the compulsory health insurance funds under the so-called check-up 35th For this check, you can do every two years, is one way, and an examination of the cardiovascular system.