How to Get Rid of Diabetes

How many cases of diabetes were recorded in 2014?

What are the fatal health conditions resulting from diabetes?

How many deaths ware caused by high blood glucose in 2016?

What are the easy ways to prevent or delay diabetes?

Sujoy Ghosh et al (2012) in "Churchill's Pocketbook of Diabetes E-Book" claimed diabetes to be one of the most common forms of chronic diseases worldwide. According to the authors, about 336 million people were suffering from this condition globally in 2011, most of them living in the developing countries. In the same year, nearly 7% individual aged between 20 and 80 were estimated to be suffering from diabetes.

According to World Health Organization estimates, about 108 million people suffered from diabetes in 1980 which almost quadrupled to 422 million cases in the next 34 years, i.e. till 2014. The year 2016 witnessed as many as around 1.6 million deaths worldwide directly resulting from diabetes.

What is Diabetes?

Characterized by high blood glucose, diabetes is a chronic health condition, which may occur either when pancreas produces insufficient amount of insulin or when your body cannot utilize the insulin it produces.

Diabetes Types:

There are two major types of diabetes – Type I and Type II. Also known as insulin-dependent or childhood-onset diabetes, the Type I occurs due to deficient insulin production in the body. The real cause of the disease is not yet known. It requires daily administration of insulin.

Also called the non-insulin-dependent or adult-onset diabetes, Type II results from inefficient use of insulin by the body. This type accounts for at least 90% of all cases of diabetes globally. It is largely the result of physical inactivity and excess body weight.

Fatal Health Conditions Resulting from Diabetes:

The raised sugar level or hyperglycemia is the common effect of diabetic disorder. While a chronic disease itself, diabetes also causes many other fatal ailments, including:

Heart attack

Stroke

Kidney failure

Blindness, and

Lower limb amputation

Following are some of the easy, quick and effective ways regarding how to get rid of diabetes:

Consuming healthy diet

Engaging in regular physical activity

Maintaining a normal, healthy body weight

Avoiding the use of tobacco, etc.