Diabetes, or more precisely diabetes mellitus (DM), or in everyday language is called diabetes, is a disease or health disorder that is characterized by high blood sugar levels because it can not be used by the body. In normal people, carbohydrates (various types of flour and sugar) is eaten is converted into glucose in the digestive tract. Glucose is then carried by blood throughout the body and into the cells to be used among others as an energy feedstock. The entry of glucose into the cells takes place with the help of insulin, a type of hormone produced by the pancreas gland. Insulin plays like a key that opens the entrance of glucose into cells. In patients with diabetes mellitus or diabetes mellitus, or sugar can not enter the cells difficult. This is caused by at least the hormone insulin produced by the pancreas gland, or because the cells can not respond well to insulin, although insulin itself is actually quite the amount. In scientific language is said to lack the amount or activity of insulin receptors found on cells.
As a result, sugar accumulates in the blood, can not be utilized by the body and eventually excreted through urine. Disorders of carbohydrate metabolism causes the body lacks energy. That’s why DM patients generally look weak, weak and unfit. Another common symptom is felt diabetics, among others, frequent urination, easy hunger, frequent thirst, blurred vision, impaired motor coordination of the limbs, tingling in hands or feet, and itching are often very disturbing.
Diabetes can cause serious health problems if not handled properly. The most common health disorder is a complication of diabetes include visual impairment, either because of vision or nerve damage due to the acceleration of the formation of cataracts, nerve damage, heart disease, kidney disease and dysfunction (impaired function) sexual. High levels of sugar in the blood causing injuries tend to be difficult to recover and scabies or ulcers. In some severe diabetics, often must be carried out on a limb amputation due to wounds that never healed and rot. In the United States declared diabetes is one of the major causes of blindness and is the sixth largest cause of death.
Answering your question, whether diabetes is a hereditary disease, with great regret that I must answer that many experts concluded that diabetes is nothing to do with heredity. Someone that both parents have diabetes is almost certainly also be suffering from diabetes. You do not give information on whether your father also had diabetes. If yes, then you have “talent” likely to have diabetes.
However, you need not worry too much and get discouraged, because it really is not too difficult to cope with diabetes as long as you have a strong determination and discipline to set your lifestyle, especially diet and exercise. Diabetes is not curable, it says “lifelong disease” (lifelong disese), but it causes symptoms and complications can be minimized as long as we can manage it properly. The term, live peacefully with diabetes.
To be able to live safely and peacefully with diabetes, you must be diligent and disciplined set the pattern of diet and exercise, in addition to regularly check your blood sugar levels as well as the discipline of taking medication as determined by your doctor.
Diet needs to be done by reducing the intake of carbohydrates (various types of sugar and flour, including rice, potatoes, yams, cassava, etc.), reduced-fat foods (fatty meats, egg yolks, cheese and high fat milk) and the emphasis on eating vegetables and fruits as source of fiber, vitamins and minerals. As a source of protein you can take advantage of fish, chicken (mainly breast meat), tofu and tempeh.
In addition to adjusting the diet, diabetics are advised to exercise regularly with a gradual manner in accordance with ability. The ideal exercise is aerobic such as walking or jogging one morning, cycling, swimming, and so forth. Aerobic exercise is best not done for 30-40 minutes preceded by 5-10 minutes of warming and cooling ends between 5-10 minutes. Exercise will increase the number and enhance the activity of insulin receptors in your body.
In addition to hereditary factors, risk factors that make a person more likely to have diabetes is lack of exercise and obesity (overweight). If you have a “talent diabetes”, in other words, parents or your family have a history of diabetes, it is to slow or prevent the onset of health problems caused by diabetes, you should begin to adjust your diet as suggested above, exercising regularly and maintain normal weight does not exceed.
Also, check your sugar levels so you feel the symptoms that mimic symptoms of diabetes, as already set forth. Although it does not feel any of these symptoms if you have a “talent diabetes” is quite large, you should check your blood sugar levels at least once in six months. One more factor that must be avoided is the stress.
Therefore do not worry even if you have diabetes considerable talent. Adjust your diet, exercise regularly and live happily will improve the quality of your life, so you can even be healthier than those who do not have the talent and do not suffer from diabetes.
