Nowadays, the prevalence of diabetes is increasing rapidly and at a younger age, and one of the major reasons is obesity caused by an unhealthy lifestyle. The key to controlling diabetes in young people is to “keep your mouth shut and your legs open”.
People have the impression that diabetes is far away from young people, but the reality is that the age of diabetes is moving significantly forward. According to a 2013 epidemiological survey, the prevalence of diabetes among people over 18 years of age in China is 11.6%, compared to 9.7% in 2010, and the prevalence of diabetes has increased significantly in recent years and is trending younger.
Type 2 diabetes is a common endocrine metabolic disease, and obesity is currently considered a major risk factor for diabetes. Clinically, obese patients with type 2 diabetes have three high characteristics such as high blood glucose, high blood lipid and high blood pressure. Among the various complex factors that induce diabetes, obesity is the most dangerous signal, and weight control is necessary to prevent and treat diabetes.
In the past, type 2 diabetes usually developed after the age of 40, but nowadays it also develops in people in their 30s, with an overall trend of rejuvenation. The main reason for this is the unhealthy lifestyle of modern people, especially in diet and exercise. The diet of modern young people is mainly high in protein, fat and calories, and the three meals are not regular, which has a great impact on health and is a major risk for diabetes or abnormal glucose metabolism. In addition, many young people now lack exercise, in and out of the car, up and down the stairs in the elevator, so that the accumulation of calories further, leading to obesity. Therefore, the key for young people to control their weight and thus prevent diabetes is to “keep your mouth shut and your legs open”.
If you eat a good breakfast, the body can get enough energy supply to provide consumption, diet, digestion itself is also energy-consuming, energetic can also consume more calories; do not eat breakfast, the overall metabolic status of the human body will decline.
For the prevention and treatment of diabetes in children, parents should pay attention to the child’s diet while supervising the child’s exercise.” The main cause of type 2 diabetes in children is obesity, put the weight under control, blood sugar and lipid indicators are down. Do not wait for obesity to develop to difficult to control, easy to cause a variety of obesity with morbidity, will be a serious threat to health.