During my student time I took several subjects related to molecular biology when I studied a mastery about radiological security.The genetics course had the objective of arouseing the interest of the students in the aspects related to the genes that are transmitted to our parents and ancestors and thus could be understood why many characteristics of them appeared in the new generations.
The laws of inheritance exist, what a novelty, but its effects are not as predictable, as stood out in classrooms and books, since the mechanisms that operate for the creation of a new being are very complex since they are interactions of DNA macromoleculesfemale and masculine, which involve physical, chemical and of course biological aspects.A science.Thus, it is not uncommon to see that many features of the parents, skin and eye color, postures, artistic faculties, etc., are inherited but there are jumps, (recessive factors), and some children do so from their grandparents and notHis parents.
However, negative characteristics of biological metabolism that appear gradually as diseases are also transmitted, but there are others that are acquired from bad eating and body exercise, and that, applied to a population group can generate health problemsof great importance.
And what is all this? You will wonder a reader friend, well, it is about a few days ago the Ministry of Health announced that the country is in front of an "epidemiological emergency", news that was widely commented by a consulting doctorIn an excellent text, in which it speaks of the failure of the national medical authority in the effective care of type 2 diabetes mellitus (which does not require insulin application) because the number of prevalence of the condition has doubled in 14 years, and thetrend is growing.
I have no knowledge to comment on formal or medical formal aspects, but experiences in the management of condition in the family, and in particular when diabetes mellitus appears from an early age, that is, not acquired or congenital, but caused by the entranceof a virus that attacks the pancreas of a child and that predisposes it to use insulin permanently.
The first reaction of the parents is panic and forces them to begin their education about the management of the condition with the guide of specialist doctors, so that the entire family group leads a normal life.Regardless of the daily application of insulin and the control of blood glucose levels, the whole family suddenly changes its eating habits and physical exercise, to face the disease.
If there were daily sweet bread, jam and soft drinks, suddenly they disappear suddenly and are replaced by bobbins, fruit with little sugar, fresh water with non -caloric sweeteners, and simple water.With reference to protein sources, they alternate and appear vegetables with abundance.The junk food is erased from the menu and alternatives such as nuts and peanuts arise.
In relation to exercise, it is incorporated into family dynamics leaving behind the passivity provided by television and more now with the intrusion in the homes of the so -called “smartphones”, which I commented in other gloss and published in Excelsior for months ago months ago.
Both diabetic and the entire family can lead a normal and especially healthy life, which prevents other diseases of different kinds without having deliberately planned it.Thanks for diabetes.
In the case that concerns us and referred to the unfortunate government announcement, the situation is very delicate because the problem was not understood and now there is a health emergency.Apart from the cases of unattered diabetes, the condition isA chronic disease returns with repercussions of all kinds including economic.
It is not about looking for them "alleged guilty" but also to give a solution to the emergency, and above all to perform effective actions so that the problem does not continue.How to solve the emergency? I don't know;But what I know is how to prevent the acquisition of diabetes for bad eating and exercise habits, through dedication in the subject, both in the family and in school.Yes you can and urgently take the first steps.
By Enrique García and Garcia
Nuclear physicist graduated from UNAM
