Learn the Lingo of Diabetes - Part 2

Risk Factors

If you're overweight your chances of developing diabetes is already elevated, but other factors increase your risk. According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), your risk of developing type 2 diabetes is above average if :

• You're over age 45

• You have a parent or sibling with diabetes

• You are of Native Alaskan, American Indian, African American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian American or Pacific Island descent. 

• You have high blood pressure

• You have high LDL ("bad") cholesterol, low HDL ("good") cholesterol and/or high triglyceride levels

• You exercise less than three times per week

• You have had cardiovascular disease

• You have been diagnosed with prediabetes

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Article By: Joan Raymond; 

Reviewed by: Jessica Smerling

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Learn the Lingo of Diabetes - Part 1

Diabetes is a complex illness, especially when you consider the multiple forms and confusing terminology.

Here's a primer to help you get a grasp on the key issues.... Just the Facts

Glucose

Sugar, which the body's cells use for immediate energy and stores for the future. After eating, blood glucose levels rise. Without insulin, blood glucose builds up in the blood.

Insulin

A hormone, produced by the pancreas that helps move glucose from the bloodstream to the cells.

Diagnoses and Conditions

Type 1 Diabetes

An autoimmune disorder that requires insulin to control. The immune system attacks the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas so that the pancreas produces little or no insulin. Formerly called juvenile diabetes, it often develops in childhood and accounts for 5 to 10 percent of diagnosed cases of diabetes.

Type 2 Diabetes

The most common form of diabetes (90 to 95 percent), in which the body fails to produce enough insulin or the body is insulin resistant; i.e., the cells don't use the insulin properly. Can be controlled with oral meds, or even reversed, with diet, weight loss and exercise.

Insulin Resistance

A precursor of type 2 diabetes. When cells don't respond properly to the insulin that the body produces, sugar cannot move from the bloodstream to the cells. The pancreas produces extra insulin to compensate, but eventually it may be unable to do so.

Prediabetes

Often a precursor to full-blown diabetes, but can be reversible with weight loss and a proper diet. Prediabetes is diagnosed when blood-sugar levels are elevated but not yet defined as diabetic.

Metabolic Syndrome

A cluster of conditions, including high blood sugar, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, elevated triglycerides and a large midsection (fat deposits at the waistline), which increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

To Be Continued....

Article By: Joan Raymond; 

Reviewed by: Jessica Smerling

How Green Tea is Beneficial - Part 2

8. Green Tea and Cholesterol

Green tea can help lower cholesterol level. It also improves the ratio of good cholesterol to bad cholesterol by reducing bad cholesterol level.

9. Green Tea and Obesity

Green tea prevents obesity by stopping the movement of glucose in fat cells. If you are on a healthy diet exercise regularly and drink green tea, it is unlikely you'll be obese.

10. Green Tea and Diabetes

Green tea improves lipid and glucose metabolisms prevents sharp increases in blood sugar level and balances your metabolism rate.

11. Green Tea and Alzheimer's

Green tea helps boost your memory. And although there's no cure for Alzheimer's, it helps slow the process of reduced acetylcholine in the brain, which leads to Alzheimer's.

12. Green Tea and Parkinson's

Antioxidants in green tea helps prevent against cell damage in the brain which could cause Parkinson's. People drinking green tea also are less likely to progress with Parkinson's.

13. Green Tea and Liver Disease

Green tea helps prevent transplant failure in people with liver failure. Researches showed that green tea destroys harmful free radicals in fatty livers.

14. Green Tea and High Blood Pressure

Green tea helps prevent high blood pressure. Drinking green tea helps keep your blood pressure down by repressing angiotensin,  which leads to high blood pressure.

15. Green Tea and Food Poisoning

Catechin found in green tea can kill bacteria which causes food poisoning and kills the toxins produced by those bacteria.

16. Green Tea and Blood Sugar

Blood sugar tends to increase with age but polyphenols and polysaccharides in green tea help lower your blood sugar level.

To Be Continued....

Source : DSDG