Diabetes is in a worldwide pandemic.Mexico is no exception, and as time passes the figures increase.Harvard University researchers say that the evolution of man generates diabetes.
For Daniel E. Lieberman, president of the Harvard Human Evolutionary Biology Department and author of the book The Story of the Human Body, many of the health problems arose due to an evolutionary mismatch and the appearance of agriculture.
Today, the nutritional value of food is committed to different factors such as modern agriculture, which decreases the nutritional values of the earth;Processed products and industrial foods contain a very high sugar index, which contribute to changes in DNA and metabolism.
The result of this lack of coincidence - or these mismatches - is the growing incidence of population diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes.
In health interview180, Martín Herrera Cornejo, head of the Internal Medicine Service of the Juarez Hospital of Mexico, coincides with researcher Lieberman:
We have a diet that is considered to be the second most diabetogenic in the world.We consume more refined foods or rich in sugars and fats, which release a number of substances and generate diabetes. ”
our reality ...
Mexico is the second country with more people with worldwide obesity.
For each patient diagnosed with diabetes there is at least one that ignores it.This disease increases its figures and appears in earlier stages due to an unfavorable lifestyle: sedentary lifestyle, for eating badly and genetics, ”says Herrera Cornejo.
The Federal Ministry of Health (SSA) reveals that at least 10% of the Mexican population suffers from the disease;99% being type 2 diabetes originates from bad eating habits.
Regarding the entities of the Republic, the National Nutrition Survey (Ensenut) 2012 points to the Federal District as the entity with the highest percentage of men diagnosed with diabetes (12.7%), followed by the State of Mexico (11.5%) andVeracruz (11.9%).While for women the first place is Nuevo León (15.5%), followed by Tamaulipas (12.8%) and the Federal District (11.9%).
And how do you control it?
Diabetes is a silent disease that can affect people of any age.
Although genetic load influences, habits determine and influence the appearance of type 2 diabetes, as well as having high cholesterol levels.
“Dyslipidemias (alterations of lipids in the blood) are a signal.First the triglycerides rise and if we do not modify the habits, then the glucose level begins to rise.
"Most patients do not accept that they have the disease because as diabetes hurts when there are serious complications, until that moment they take it seriously."
In your hands you are if you want to change your life drastically and avoid this disease on time by carrying healthy lifestyle habits.
Do not be part of one more statistic, take care of your health and that of your family.
