Coffee and tea against diabetes

Statistics show that annually around the world consumed more than 400 billion cups of coffee. In the U. S. alone 30 million adults drink coffee every day. Meanwhile, new research shows that coffee and tea – drinks are not only familiar and delicious but also useful: they can significantly reduce the risk of diabetes.

 A study published in the edition of Archives of Internal Medicine, including statistics on nearly two dozen smaller studies on the effects of tea and coffee on human health. The study authors collected data from 18 different small studies examining the health statistics of nearly half a million people. It was found that each additional cup of coffee is used daily, reduces the risk of diabetes type II by nearly 7%.

Diabetes type II is diagnosed in more than 90% of people who get diabetes. This disease poses a significant threat to human health: diabetes increases the risk of damage to small blood vessels and nerves due to high blood glucose. Furthermore, diabetes type II leads to disruption of the cardiovascular system, which in turn increases the risk of heart attack or seizure. Suffer from diabetes, eyes, kidneys and nerves.

 Studies show that regular consumption of coffee, even decaffeinated, helps reduce the risk of diabetes type II by approximately 7%. However, this does not mean that daily consumption of several dozen cups of coffee can is guaranteed and gets rid of the risk of disease. A useful effect is achieved by use of 4-5 cups of coffee per day, thus reducing the risk of diabetes type II by up to 25%.

Tea has the same advantages as the coffee, regardless of caffeine content, the use of four or five cups of tea a day reduces the risk of diabetes type II by up to 25% compared with people who do not use tea. Pledge effectiveness of tea – regular use of it. Moreover, contained in a green and black tea antioxidants reduce the risk of skin cancer, stomach and esophagus.

•  Eye problems in diabetes

If you have diabetes, in order to avoid problems with the eyes, you should regularly visit your ophthalmologist. In fact, diabetes is the leading cause of blindness among adults aged 20 to 74 years.

High blood sugar levels in diabetes causes swelling lens that alters your ability to see. To correct for this type of impairment you need to return your blood sugar to target levels. From the moment you start a good control of concentration of sugar in your blood, before your vision can fully recover, it may take up to three months. Blurred vision in diabetes may also be a symptom of more serious eye problems. People, who suffer from diabetes, can develop three main types of eye problems: cataracts, glaucoma and retinopathy.

 Although cataracts can develop in each, people with diabetes, these eye problems can occur at an earlier age and the condition progresses faster than in people without diabetes. If you are diabetic and you have cataracts, your eye can not focus the light source and at the same time disturbed vision.

 When normal drainage of fluid stops inside the eye, it accumulates, there is increasing pressure and is developing other eye problems that can occur in diabetes and is called glaucoma. Treatment of eye problems in diabetes may include special eye drops, laser treatments, medications and surgery.

Diabetic retinopathy is a vascular (related to blood vessels) complications arising from diabetes. This diabetic eye disease occurs due to damage to small blood vessels called microangiopathy. Kidney disease and nerve damage due to diabetes mellitus is also related to microangiopathy. Damage to large blood vessels (also known as macroangiopathy) includes complications such as heart disease and stroke.

Diabetic retinopathy – the leading cause of irreversible blindness in developed countries. Duration of diabetes is the single most important risk factor for retinopathy. The longer you have diabetes, the higher the likelihood of developing this serious eye problem. If you do not detect retinopathy at an early stage or not to treat it, it can lead to blindness.

  Thus, in order to prevent the development of eye problems due to diabetes, you should: monitor your blood sugar level, control high blood pressure.

Insulin

Concepts of diabetes and a diet are inseparable, for only competent restriction of receipt of sugars with food it is possible to prevent clinical course deterioration when insulin will not cope with formed glucose. And at diabetes of insulin and so it is formed a little because of infringement of work of a pancreas and as insulin is responsible for mastering by a sugar organism, last at diabetes is acquired badly, and remains basically in blood that can lead to the most unpleasant consequences.

  Therefore, correctly picked up diet at a diabetes helps to normalize a carbohydrate exchange and to facilitate work of the weakened pancreas. And first of all restrictions in a diet at a diabetes concern which are easily acquired carbohydrates which in an organism are split to glucose. It is sugar, honey, jam and jams, sweets, fancy bread and other sweets, sweet fruit and berries: grapes, bananas, raisin, dates.

Quite often there are even recommendations completely to exclude these products from a diet, but it is really necessary only at the heavy form of diabetes.

At easy, and illness moderate severity level, under a condition of the regular control of the level of sugar in the blood, the use of a small number of sweets it is quite admissible. But serious researches have proved that in progressing of diabetes the big contribution brings and the raised maintenance of fats in the blood. Therefore restriction of the use of fat food is quite proved.

Diabetic Diet 

The basics to diabetic diet meal planning are simple once we understand the way our body breaks down food. Everything we eat is broken down into sugar eventually. Sugary foods such as sweets or fruit hit the bloodstream almost immediately, followed by the slower starches (carbohydrates, or carbs), which take an hour or two to break down depending on their complexity. Proteins are next, taking about four hours, then between six and eight hours the fats finally break down. If strict attention is paid to diet and exercise, many diabetics can control their blood sugar with minimal dependence on medication.

Diabetic Diet Plan And Goal

Diabetic diet plan differ from person to person due to our daily nutritional needs and type of diabetes a person suffers. Following are the most common type of diabetes diet:

• Type 1 Diabetes Diet- Type 1 diabetes always requires insulin treatment, the main focus is to find a balance between the food intake and insulin.
• Type 2 Diabetes Diet- Type 2 diet focus on controlling weight in order to improve the body’s ability to utilize insulin. In most cases Type 2 diabetes can be controlled through proper diet and exercise alone.
• Gestational Diabetes Diet - unlike the Type 2 diet, gestational diabetes diet focus on adequate energy and nutrients to support both the mother’s body and growing baby while maintaining stable blood glucose levels for the pregnant mother.

The diet goal is to eat a balanced, portion controlled meal that will allow our body to stay on an even keel throughout the day as the components of each meal hit the system. Eating every two to three hours is best, five or six small meals being recommended, and light exercise after each meal will help kick start the digestive system and prevent a spike in sugar levels. If we can include appropriate servings from each food category at each meal, they will break down at different rates, delivering a steady trickle of sugar into the bloodstream and keeping our energy level stable. This saves our system from having to deal with a great influx all at once, as it would if we ate only carbs, or only protein.

Diabetes in the elderly

Diabetes in the elderly.

Many people successfully live to 70, 80 and 90 years, but, unfortunately, among them the frequent incidence of type II diabetes. It has been estimated that almost half of Americans with Type II diabetes is a disease develops after 60 years, and one in five aged 65 years. Basically, here we are talking about type II diabetes.

 But in those communities that are at risk of developing type II diabetes, for example, the Spaniards and Americans of African origin, these proportions are higher as well, among them one of the three ill with type II diabetes after 65 years. In addition, much is changing with age: the pancreas produces less insulin, increases insulin resistance, disturbed metabolism.

 The deterioration diabetes observed angry elderly people suffering from obesity, smoking, sedentary lifestyle, not diet. High blood pressure, characteristic of many elderly people, also complicates the control of diabetes, causing complications. In addition, they have to take a large amount of drugs against various diseases, and the interactions of some of them may also be negative.

Older people quickly develop complications, most often occurs due to the late detection of diabetes. These complications are more serious, compared with complications developing in relatively young people. Reduced physical and mental abilities will also complicate control of diabetes.

  But despite all this, the goal in the treatment of type II diabetes in older people remains the same – to improve the quality of life and reduction of diabetic complications. However, many doctors agree that if older people need more individualized treatment approach; the treatment should take into account the social status of the patient’s overall health and, of course, wish to cooperate with the doctor and to participate directly in the treatment of their illness.

 In most cases it is better to start treatment with diet and small doses of exercise that will help, if not eliminate, insulin, and then at least reduce the dose.