Change Your Ways, Reduce Your Risk: 7 Tips for Preventing Diabetes |
Piggybacking the obesity epidemic, diabetes rates continue to surge. On June 10, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new and alarming statistics on diabetes. An estimated 29 million Americans have the disease, a nearly 12 percent increase from the 26 million diabetics in 2010.
One-fourth of people don’t know they have diabetes—a scary fact, given the complications of chronically high blood sugar: heart attack, stroke, sight-robbing eye disease, kidney failure, foot amputation. Worse, another 86 million adults have prediabetes, a condition of elevated blood sugar just below the threshold for diabetes. undefined The vast majority of cases are type 2 diabetes, a condition characterized by insulin resistance, meaning cells fail to respond to insulin. In type 1 diabetes, the pancreas doesn’t make enough insulin. The good news is type 2 diabetes is largely preventable. A seminal 2006 studydemonstrated that intensive lifestyle modification reduced the risk of developing diabetes by 58 percent, as compared to a 31 percent risk reduction achieved with the antidiabetes drug metformin. 7 tips to help reduce your risk:
California Cactus Salad Ingredients: 2 medium cactus pads (also called nopales) 1 tablespoon olive oil 3 garlic cloves, minced ½ cup canned black beans, rinsed and drained 4 tablespoons green onions, chopped 4 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice 1 teaspoon sugar ½ teaspoon ground cumin ¼ teaspoon dried chipotle powder (or about 1 tablespoon chipotle pepper minced in adobo) 2 medium tomatoes, diced 6 cups leaves lettuce, shredded Preparation and Use: Carefully trim off the eyes from the cactus pad with a vegetable peeler or knife and remove any spines from the green skin; rinse the fruit thoroughly. Cut cactus pads into thin strips. Heat the oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium high heat. Add the cactus and garlic, sauté 7 to 8 minutes or until cactus is tender. Combine the cactus mixture, and the next eight ingredients (beans through tomatoes). Arrange 1½ cups lettuce on each of 4 plates, top each with ½ cup cactus mixture. How it Works: Prickly pear cactus has both fiber and pectin. Studies show that the fruit can help lower blood glucose by lowering the absorption of sugar in the stomach and intestines. https://www.everydayhealth.com/columns/w...-diabetes/
I'm not sure there's any sickness that's good, but some make one more worse of compared to others. Diabetes being one. Healthy living is a goal.
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