Say No to Diabetes

Dr Rama Mishra, Diabetologist and General Physician, Well Beeing Lifestyle Health Centre, Bangalore, elaborates more on various treatment methods to curb the menace of diabetes.

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Diabetes, like any other disease can be curbed by either prevention or controlling. The main causes of this widely spread disease are poor diet patterns, deteriorating fitness levels, shooting stress which immediately need to be worked upon.

The word DIABETES, in itself constitutes all the factors which help cause it. DI (Diet –Improper), ABE (Absence of Basic Exercise) and TES (Tension-Emotion-Stress).

Recently, there has been a shift which shows that the lifestyle diseases are slowly progressing and proving to be more fatal than the communicable diseases. These disorders are driven by negative effects of globalisation, cultural influence and consumption of unhealthy food products. Social concerns, such as ignorance, negligence, low concern on preventive care, low levels of education and also lack of finance, are associated with high risk factors of the most common problems. These include cardiovascular diseases,cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes which account for 80 per cent of Noncommunicable diseases(NCD) deaths.