10 percent of patients suffering from diabetes disease are well controlled, the rest ignores good nutrition and physical activation to mitigate the consequences of the disease.
This was reported by the nutritionist of health jurisdiction 04, Alicia Martínez, stating that they have 518 people with arterial hypertension and 387 people with diabetes disease.
He added that they have registered 105 people overweight and 233 people with obesity, "minor" statistics because people do not accept that the extra kilos are a disease.
He informed that they perform around 900 to 1,000 monthly valuations, of which 70 percent of patients have overweight and obesity and 15 percent arterial hypertension or diabetes.
By asking them to be integrated into the treatment offered by the health jurisdiction 04 they run into a stage of denial by patients "think that drinking tea or juices will be relieved."
Patients ignore take care of their diet, perform physical activation and take medication and return to health instances when they suffer the consequences.
He explained that there are cases of amputations, retinopathy, renal failure and heart disease as a result of poor care of diabetes and obesity disease.
He stressed that patients can control and stop the progress of the disease, although they cannot eradicate it, so it urged citizens to take care of their diet and perform physical activation.
"Most patients want to take the medication and change food when they have diabetes complications, when they should do it before," said the specialist.
When they detect arterial hypertension and diabetes disease, patients fall into a stage of denial "They argue 'I feel good, nothing hurts' and accept the disease when they have dizziness, weight loss, dental loss, loss of visibilityand circulatory problems.
The main problem is that they consume sugary drinks, flours, sweet bread, cookies, sweets, alcoholic beverages "if they do not make changes in their diet for a lot of food they take there will be no results."
