How to Look After Your Diabetes in a Healthy Way?

Diabetes is not some exotic new form of disease, thanks to our 20th century lifestyle diabetes is one of the most common diseases in the United States. It is estimated that over 16.5 million Americans alone have diabetes.

I am sure you are aware of the fact that our body temperature needs to be maintained at a constant 98.6 Fahrenheit. In the same manner our blood glucose level needs to be maintained within a very narrow range and this is a complex mechanism where the chief controllers are insulin and glucagon.

Diabetes is basically a lifestyle disease as they are triggered by what we eat, when we eat and our activity levels. To a lesser extent diabetes can also be triggered by depression, tension and trauma. As the concentration of our blood sugar increases our brain triggers a thirst signal.

This is an effort to get us to drink water and dilute the excess sugar in the blood. So if you are drinking an average three glasses of water a day but now you are drinking 5 or more glasses then you should consider a blood glucose test seriously.

This lead to increase in the number of times you need to urinate since excess intake of water results in excess urination. At this stage the urine which we are secreting is essentially the excess sugar and so it tends to be dark yellow.

Now you might ask me what exactly high blood pressure is, and what is the best treatment for diabetes in the medical industry. We need to learn more about the dangers of high blood pressure along with the commonly prescribed medications for hypertensions.

Blood pressure is basically the force of our blood pushing against the walls of our arteries each time our heart beats. Please remember that our blood pressure is highest each time our heart beats and during pumping blood into the arteries.

Now this is called systolic pressure and is the high number in our reading. The diastolic pressure measures the pressure between the beats when our heart is at rest. Our blood pressure is lowest while we are sleeping and although it varies during the day and remains close to the same.

Our normal blood pressure is 120/80 and if our systolic pressure rises to 140 and above and if our diastolic pressure rises to 90 then this is considered as an acute condition of high blood pressure. It is estimated that one in three adults in US have high blood pressure and this condition is also known as hypertension.

Most people don't even know that they are having it and no wonder this alarming condition has been called the silent killer. Again high blood pressure is a major risk factor for stroke, heart attack, heart failure and kidney failure.

alternative food diabetes

Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jember succeeded in creating artificial rice called intelligent rice, to replace conventional rice. the creation of intelligent rice aims to accelerate the diversification of food, as well as reduce the high dependence on rice commodities. His name is a smart rice. But this one is not rice rice known and consumed by almost all the people of Indonesia. Rice is just rice clone. At first glance, the color brown as the color of dry grain. The shape is also similar to rice. However, when observed further, then the difference between smart rice and brown rice (rice grain) will be different. 

Inventors intelligent rice Ahmad Subagyo said government programs such as the distribution of Raskin is good enough to help poor households. but there are also negative impacts arising from the program. one of them, cause people who previously staple food instead of rice as in Maluku and Sulawesi, be dependent on the availability of rice. whereas food security in Indonesia is still very vulnerable, due to climate and price fluctuations. 

Starting from such thinking, Jember University in collaboration with the ministries of agriculture and national food security agency, trying to create intelligent rice, the raw starch and corn mocaf with additional milk as a protein. the composition of the material, we can be sure the nutrient content of rice is higher intelligent dibandi ordinary rice. 

Furthermore Subagyo explained, this smart rice there are several kinds. including doing regular rice flour and corn mocaf, with the addition of milk protein and purple potatoes for people with special needs, such as diabetics and cholesterol. but it also is made ​​from soy and rice milk contain much to enrich the protein, which is given to severely malnourished. 

The main difference of course in nutritional content. Because smart rice developed by the University of Jember and the number of plants in East Java at the instigation of Food Security Agency (BKP) made ​​from cassava flour mocaf main (Modified Cassava Flour). Flour Mocaf briefly looked like flour. If made ​​from wheat flour, then Mocaf derived from cassava, one of the commodities grown Indonesian people before knowing rice. Smart rice mixed with other commodities, can be refined corn (ampok), vegetables such as carrots, cabbage and beans. The most striking difference is rice with brown rice of course, how to cook it. 

To introduce intelligent rice to the community, the university Thursday afternoon muddy intelligent distributed 4.9 tons of rice to poor households in the district and sumberbaru jelbuk. Each RTS will get as much as 10 kilograms of 'intelligent rice' as a substitute for the consumption of non-staple food rice, '' he said. '' Because based on BPS data, the number of poor households is still high. Meanwhile, Indonesia's food security is still vulnerable. Subagyo expect intelligent rice is able to be an alternative, when the rice commodity production is reduced. especially at this time in East Java had been there 4 factories that produce rice intelligent, with the ability of each to produce 2 tons of rice per day intelligent. two factories located in Jember, while the other two are in ponorogo and Blitar. 

Rice instant fairly intelligent because quite cooked for 10 minutes can be directly eaten. "Because smart rice is already half done," said the initiator of intelligent rice, Prof. Ahmad Subagyo. Smart enough rice poured into the container and then soaked in boiling water for 5 minutes, then steamed for 10 minutes. Can be steamed on the stove or use a rice cooker (rice cooker). Afterwards, intelligent rice ready to serve.

What is diabetes

Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by high blood sugar (glucose) levels that result from defects in insulin secretion, or its action, or both. Diabetes mellitus, commonly referred to as diabetes (as it will be in this article) was first identified as a disease associated with "sweet urine," and excessive muscle loss in the ancient world. Elevated levels of blood glucose (hyperglycemia) lead to spillage of glucose into the urine, hence the term sweet urine.

Normally, blood glucose levels are tightly controlled by insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas. Insulin lowers the blood glucose level. When the blood glucose elevates (for example, after eating food), insulin is released from the pancreas to normalize the glucose level. In patients with diabetes, the absence of insufficient production of, or lack of response to insulin causes hyperglycemia. Diabetes is a chronic medical condition, meaning that although it can be controlled, it lasts a lifetime.


What is the impact of diabetes?

Over time, diabetes can lead to blindness, kidney failure, and nerve damage. These types of damage are the result of damage to small vessels, referred to as microvascular disease. Diabetes is also an important factor in accelerating the hardening and narrowing of the arteries (atherosclerosis), leading to strokes, coronary heart disease, and other large blood vessel diseases. This is referred to as macrovascular disease. Diabetes affects approximately 26 million people in the United States, while another 79 million have prediabetes. An estimated 7 million people in the United States have diabetes and don't even know it.

From an economic perspective, the total annual cost of diabetes in 2012 was estimated to be 245 billion dollars in the United States. This included 116 billion in direct medical costs (healthcare costs) for people with diabetes and another 69 billion in other costs due to disability, premature death, or work loss. Medical expenses for people with diabetes are over two times higher than those for people who do not have diabetes. Remember, these numbers reflect only the population in the United States. Globally, the statistics are staggering.