What is Diabesity?

Diabetes is a chronic condition that affects how your body metabolizes sugar for energy. Diabetes causes glucose to accumulate to unhealthy levels in your bloodstream. This takes us to the endocrine system. People do not realize what is the endocrine system until they realize the consequences. Endocrine glands release hormones that control slow-moving processes in the body, this produces disorders, the most common one is type 2 diabetes. This causes that endocrine system release hormones, obesity can be produced because hormones are one factor in obesity. The hormones leptin, insulin, sex hormones and growth hormone influence appetite, metabolism and body fat distribution. So it can be said that obese people have all this levels of hormones  that encourage the abnormal metabolism and the accomulation of fat in the body. We need to know this to beware of the problem, to know how it affects us in our everyday life and to take the correct preventions to avoid diabesity, because this is 100% preventable.

The Importance of a Healthy Lifestyle to Prevent Diabesity

Precautions

Preventing type 2 diabetes is possible by:

• Going to a yearly check up
• Measuring your weight
• See if anyone in your family has/had diabetes.
• Reaching healthy weight by: exerising, and have a healthy diet.

We will talk about this more specifically through out the blog.

MEDICAL PRECAUTIONS

A research shows that medications may help prevent the progression to type 2 diabetes in people with impaired glucose tolerance. 

One clinical trial, called the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), done by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), showed that people who have a high risk for developing type 2 diabetes could reduce that risk by 31% when using the prescription diabetes drug Metformin alone with lifestyle and diet changes.

This medications of course are prescribed by a doctor. 

Eating healthy foods.

• Eat a balanced diet, including whole grains, lean meat, and vegetables.
• Limit saturated fats.
• Limit alcohol.
• Limit calories in order to avoid gaining weight, or to help you lose weight.
• Reduce your intake of soft drinks, sugary foods, and junk food.
• Eat smaller meals more often in order to keep blood sugar levels within your target range.
• Eating more vegetables, whole grains, and nuts can lower your risk for type 2 diabetes. 
• Eating a lot of sugary foods, fast foods, and red meat (especially processed red meat) and drinking a lot of soft drinks can increase your risk for type 2 diabetes. If you want to learn more about eating well, see the topic Healthy Eating. 

Maintain a healthy weight..

To find out if you are overweight, you can use the body mass index (BMI) chart for adults or the same chart in metric . If you need to lose weight, losing as few as 10 lb. (4.5 kg) to 20 lb. (9.1 kg) can help reduce your risk of developing diabetes. 

Exercise!

First of all exercise can boost your mood, increase your energy, help you manage your blood glucose levels, and most importantly, it can be a FUN!

The main goal for exercising with diabetes is to get active and stay activeevery day. 

                          You can start with 30 min per day!

There are 3 main types of exercise:

• Aerobic exercise
• Weight lifting or strengthening
• Stretching or flexibility like yoga, pilates, etc.

Exercising regularly is one of the best ways to control your condition, especially if you need to lose weight. It helps you manage your type 2 diabetes, especially your blood glucose levels. 

More suggestions are:

• Move during commercial breaks. 
• Park your car farther away from the door.
• Stand up when you’re on the phone. 
• Take the stairs instead of the elevator. 
• Walk to do errands instead of taking the car. 

Complications

Complications of diabetes are serious it includes:

• Heart disease and stroke
• Hypertension, blindness
• Kidney disease
• Amputation
• Complications in pregnancy 
• Depression

Complications of Type 2 Diabetes

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Here you can see which systems in our body are affected due to diabetes type 2.
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The collage specifically explains what are the type of healthy food we should eat and the unhealthy food that we should not eat or that we should avoid. This is giving a message of what can cause diabesity in our body so it also explains that we should eat all healthy food mentioned. Finally the types of food mentioned in the collage are foods with low cholesterol and low sugar like fruits and vegetables these are the healthy foods and the food with high cholesterol and high sugar ofcourse are the unhealthy foods.

The Renal and Reproductive Systems in Type 2 Diabetes

The kidneys are one of a pair of organs located in the right and left side of the abdomen they remove waste products from the blood and produce urine so this document will tell specifically what are the kidneys, what are their functions and what will happen if the kidneys fail due to diabetes. The reproductive system is a system of organs within an organism which work together for the purpose of reproduction.  This document also is going to explain what the reproductive system do and how works in our body including the disorder on childbirth and pregnancy and finally the erectile function.


First the kidneys are organs that play key roles in body function, not only by filtering the blood and getting rid of waste products, but also by balancing levels of electrolyte levels in the body, controlling blood pressure, and stimulating the production of red blood cells. This takes us to kidney failure. Kidney failure can occur from an acute situation or from chronic problems. In acute renal failure, kidney function is lost rapidly and can occur from a variety of insults to the body. The list of causes is often categorized based on where the injury has occurred. Causes of these could be sepsis, medications and rhabdomyolysis. Now in the part of the of diabetic neuropathy it can be said that is a damage to nerves in the body that occurs due to high blood sugar levels from diabetes which can cause nerve injuries such as nerves in the skulls and nerves from spinal column. Finally its symptoms are very specific and they include feeling full after eating only a small amount of food, nausea, constipation, or diarrhea.
Now this takes us to the reproductive system which is a system of organs within an organism which work together for the purpose of reproduction. First of all, talking about the reproductive system it can be said that the risks of maternal diabetes are developing fetus include Miscarriage, growth restriction, growth acceleration, fetal obesity ,mild neurological deficits. Mild neurological and cognitive deficits in offspring, including increased symptoms of ADHD, impaired fine and gross motor skills, and impaired explicit memory performance Still, having diabetes type I or II has a 2-3 fold increase in risk of birth defects. Babies born to diabetic mothers are often larger than normal. This is because blood glucose passes directly from you to your baby, so if you have high blood glucose levels your baby will produce extra insulin to compensate. Finally in the part of the erectile dysfunction which is the inability to get or keep an erection firm enough for sexual intercourse could be said that can be a total inability to achieve an erection, an inconsistent ability to do so, or  to sustain only brief erections. These can happen when a person has diabetes when any of the sequence the erection needs is disrupted, the sequence includes nerve impulses in the brain, spinal column, and area around the penis, and response in muscles, fibrous tissues, veins, and arteries.


All in all, diabetes and high glucose blood affects you. Greatly. The kidneys are the ones that filter and clean your blood. The high glucose on your blood, caused by diabetes, affects them. Without your kidneys, your blood will be unpurified, and eventually die. Diabetes will also affect your genitals, if you’re a man. It will be harder for you to have an erection last, and if you’re female, your kid may have some kinds of diseases in his/her body. So, its better to take care of yourself while you can, and avoid little eating pleasures so you don’t suffer from this diseases in the not-so-far-future.

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Eating fruits like apples, bananas, oranges, etc. are a big part of  a healthy diet, they help you a lot and they have a lot of vitamins and proteins our body needs.

Water is essential in a healthy diet, not only it helps us in our metabolism, it also makes our skin healthier and help lessen the chance of kidney stones, keep joints lubricated, prevent and lessen colds and flu and help prevent constipation. We all need 8 glasses of water a day.

Having and exercise rutine is very helpful to maintain and have a much healthier body by combating health conditions and diseases.

Oatmeal cookies are really good for your body, they help can help lower cholesterol, which is good for cardiovascular health. Also, oatmeal is high in fiber, which is good for bones and digestive systems, also this cookies are a good source for vitamin E, iron and protein. and ofcourse they taste real good.

Playing sports is a really good and fun exercise, this helps you a lot by maintaining  your healthy lifestyle and it teaches you team effort and team spirit. It improves our mood and boost our energy.

Team 4

Jaime Juarez
Enrique Gracia
Bruno Estrada
Liliana Horta

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