Endangered Asian Youth Diabetes

Endangered Asian Youth Diabetes

Recent studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association said the outbreak of diabetes mellitus is a threat for Asian people. The threat was more directed towards young people. Cause, changes in eating patterns from initially healthy to Western-style food and poor movement.

Diabetes is a disease with complications of the most complete threat. If the contract, the person can only control the disease with a healthy lifestyle.

If not controlled, a number of complications could come. Starting from a heart attack, stroke, erectile dysfunction, kidney failure, blindness, limb amputation to threats such as the one facing the comedian Rini S. Bonbon. Cost of treatment was so expensive.

The threat of spread of diabetes according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has reached a global level. Diabetics are mentioned in the journal rocketed from 240 million in the year 2007 will be 380 million in 2025. The bad news, 60 percent of that number are in Asia.

Data from the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) said, diabetics (diabetes) in India is estimated to skyrocket from 40 million people so close to 70 million, while in China from 39 million to 59 million. In Bangladesh, the estimate also increased, from 3.8 million to 7.4 million people.

Do not rush relief. The number of diabetics in Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam and other Asian countries also increased. IDF estimates that, in our country in the year 2007 there are 2.8 million diabetics in the age of 20-79 years. Without adequate policies and education, the number of diabetics in Indonesia would be equal to other Asian countries.

Eating jor-fishing rod

The tendency of an increasing number of diabetics in Asia is expected because of the lifestyle. Asia is a region which recently started to grow and prosper. Stephen Cobett, professor of the School of Public Health from the University of Sydney says the region began to experience an adequate supply of food and eating styles people adopt from the Western world.

"For thousands of years most of the people of China, Indonesia, India is the subsistence farmer or a farmer who harvests the barely adequate to support themselves. Lack of food may occur for months in a year," he said.

In less than 50 years, Asians have a change of diet became jor-rod paspasan follow the diet of the West. "In fact, the Europeans experienced evolution during 150 to 200 years to have a change of diet like this. In my opinion, diabetes is the direct result of changes in eating patterns," said Corbett who was not involved with research in the United States it.

A very surprising discovery of the JAMA study published that are age and body mass in Asian diabetics. In continental Western Europe and North America, obesity has been shown to be a major factor causing the arrival of type 2 diabetes.

Potbelly

In Asia, the progress of economic development bringing prosperity. It makes Asians changing diet and activities. Life so much easier, so no need to sweat, while food abundance.

This condition causes stomach Asians on average so bloated. In fact, it was quickly brought potbelly diseases such as diabetes. Excessive fat in the abdomen dangerous because storing energy and releasing chemicals that control metabolism and insulin usage.

According to the study, Asian people with a body mass index (BMI) did not lower segendut North Americans. However, the JAMA study says that with a lower BMI, Asians had a prevalence equal or even higher to suffer from diabetes than people in other parts of the Western world.

Even more surprising is the tendency of age have diabetes again in Asia. In Europe and North America, diabetes suffered by people aged between 60 to 79 years. In Asia diabetes tendency among ages 20 to 50 years.

Sweet effects

Consumption patterns, such as what makes people susceptible to diabetes Asia? There is no research that can answer that specifically. However, diet is suspected to be the cause of almost instantaneous.

Very sweet drink consumption may be a friend who ate fried chicken and fries at fast food restaurants should be suspected as the cause of rapidly swollen and diabetes.

Early studies in the Bloomberg School, the United States, projecting that 75 percent of adults in the country's superpower being overweight or obese due to consumption of sweet drinks. As a result of obesity, two-thirds of adults increased risk for type two diabetes.

A study ever to find the relationship between beverage consumption and weight change. The results of a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition said that rapid weight down if you reduce calorie consumption of sweet drinks. Sweet drinks affect the body weight among 810 men and women who studied in Baltimore, Baton Rouge, Durnham, and Portland.

"Among a number of drinks, the kind that is sweetened with a significant impact on weight change. Our study supports the policy recommendations to reduce intake of calories in liquid form," said Dr. Yang Liwei Chen and epidemiologist at Louisiana State University's School of Public Health, who chaired the study.

The results showed that specific reduction of liquid calorie intake associated with weight reduction of 0.25 kg for six months and 0.24 kg for 18 months.

Among sweetened beverages, reducing the daily servings of beverages associated with weight loss of 0.5 kg over six months and 0.7 kg for 18 months. Of the nine species investigated drinks, sweetened beverages showed significant weight changes.

Studies this matter sweetened beverages examined 810 adults aged 25 to 79 years over 18 months. This research is a randomized, controlled, behavioral intervention.

Weight and height of the object of research is measured using calibrated scales and measuring instruments. The study also involves Dr. Benjamen Caballero as head of research and a professor from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Department of International Health.

Food intake of the study participants were measured through telephone interviews. The researchers divided into several categories based beverage calorie content and nutritional composition, ie calorie sweet drinks such as soft drinks, fruit drinks, fruit punch or high calorie drinks that are sugar, diet drinks are given artificial sweeteners, milk, real fruit juice, coffee and tea with sugar, coffee and tea without sugar, and alcoholic beverages.

The study unequivocally recommend to reduce the consumption of calorie drinks, sweet drinks in particular.
Source: Senior