Diabetes

Avoid Foods That Have Potential to Become Diseases

Hypertension, this disease occurs when the systolic blood pressure is more than or equal to 140 mmHg, while diastolic blood pressure is equal to or more than 90 mmHg. The patient is usually experience symptoms like headache, floating, tingling, head feels heavy, vomiting and nosebleeds.

Foods that need to be avoided: For patients with hypertension, should avoid eating foods that containing high salt and sodium, such as meat, hot sauce, shrimp paste, dried meat, dried shrimp, sausages, cheese, butter, chocolate, canned fruit, peanut butter, macaroni, instant soup, MSG, tomato sauce and ketchup. Patients should consume a lot of vegetables, fruit and grain.

Diabetes Mellitus, when a person’s glucose level is more than normal limit, which is 200 mg / dl, then it can be said this person is suffering from diabetes. The patient will usually experience excessive thirst, so he often drink, often feel hungry, frequent urination, feeling sleepy, fatigue and weight dramatically dropped. The patient will also experience symptoms of tingling, whitish, blurred vision, itching on the skin and around the genitals as well as impotence or erectile dysfunction on men.

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Diabetes is Stalking You

diabetes mellitusThe full name of diabetes is diabetes mellitus, which means “sugar honey“. The term of “diabetes mellitus” comes from the Greek which when translated it means “flowing through the pipe with atmospheric pressure” and form the Latin language which can be translated as “sweet as honey“. The terms from Greek and Latin were describing diabetes precisely. Because the water runs through the body of diabetic as if poured from the mouth through the urinary tract and directly out of the body. The urine of diabetic (patient of diabetes), it taste sweet because it contains sugar.

In the past, a test for diabetes was to pour the urine from the diabetic near to the ant’s nest. If those ants gathered around the urine, then this indicates the existence of sugar. That is why diabetes is often referred to as sweet urinary disease. Each food that we eat is converted into energy by the body. Inside the stomach and the intestines, the foods are elaborated into several basic elements, including one type of sugar, namely glucose.

If there is sugar, then the pancreas produces insulin, which helps drain the sugar into body cells. Then, the sugar can be absorbed well in the body and then burned to produce energy.

Detecting A Disease From The Waist Size

health problemsDo not underestimate the health problems that seem trivial. Like when your waist size increases, although you have ideal body weight. The waist size can predict a variety of health risks like heart disease and diabetes. Detecting the disease through the waist size is considered quite effective rather than by measuring the body mass index. Measuring the waist size is very easy. Put the meter that is often used by the tailor around the waist.

If the waist size touches to 35 inches on women and 40 inches on men, or more, then it should need to be cautious because it would be dangerous. A woman that has waist size more than 35 inches is indicating the risk of metabolic syndrome. A set of conditions that increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease. Even when you have an ideal weight. Fat belly with a waist size of more than ideal could suppress the fat in the lungs. Especially when you bend the waist, it will make it hard to breathe.

To overcome this, do the exercise regularly to burn calories in the body. There should also need to control the heart beat routinely after doing the exercises. Besides exercising, change the carbohydrates that are high in sugar such as white bread, sweets and biscuits with low carbohydrate calories.

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