Several things put you at risk for diabetes. You can control some of these factors but not all of them.
Risk factors you can control:
Overweight. Too much body fat is the main risk factor for type 2 diabetes. If you weigh 20% more than your ideal weight, you are at higher risk.
Smoking causes cells to resist insulin, so they can’t get enough blood sugar for energy.
Lack of physical activity. Being inactive leads to high blood sugar, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol.
High blood pressure and/or high cholesterol. These conditions raise your risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
Risk factors you cannot control:
Family history. Your risk is higher if you have a close relative with diabetes.
Gestational diabetes, or having a baby over 9 pounds. Women who had diabetes during pregnancy or had a large baby are at greater risk for diabetes later in life.
Age: Type 2 diabetes is more common in people over 45, but it is rising among young people who are overweight and inactive.
Ethnic group.African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Asian Americans are more likely than Caucasians to develop diabetes risk.
The more risk factors you have, the more likely you will get type 2 diabetes. Yet just two things—being overweight and inactive—lead to most cases.
Type 1. This often affects children, but adults can develop it, too. In this form of diabetes, the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks the cells that produce and release insulin. As these cells die, high levels of sugar build up in the blood.
Type 2. diabetes is rising fast in the world, and accounts for 90% to 95% of diabetes cases. A healthy diet and exercise help your body produce and use insulin. Obesity and lack of exercise can damage this process. So, even before you are diagnosed with diabetes, your body cells can become resistant to insulin.
This boosts your risk of heart disease. The pancreas may also stop making enough insulin to overcome the resistance. However, you can prevent and often treat this form of diabetes.
In type 2 diabetes your body probably still makes insulin, but your body’s cells can’t use it well. This is called insulin resistance. It causes high levels of sugar to build up in the bloodstream. As sugar builds up in your blood, you may eventually develop diabetes.
Gestational diabetes: Gestational diabetes occurs in some pregnant women. It can cause complications during labour and delivery. Diabetes that develops in later trimesters usually goes away after the pregnancy ends. However, women who get gestational diabetes are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes later in life.
What is diabetes?
Diabetes develops because the body can’t make or properly use a natural hormone called insulin. Insulin is made in your pancreas. It helps your body’s cells take in sugar from your bloodstream.Diabetes is diagnosed when a blood sugar called glucose builds up in your blood. High blood sugar levels can make you feel tired, damage your organs and increase your risk of heart disease.
Our experts, can help you identify those aspects of the lifestyle that could contribute to the cancer and highlight these factors in the lifestyle assessment. The assessment highlights the factors like family history, obesity (being overweight by more than 25% of ideal weight), tobacco use (smoking or eating), alcoholism, betelnut or pan masala eating, inappropriate diet, high exposure to radiation etc.
When this assessment is incorporated in our Livelifemore Healthy Living Program, the recommendations identify the specific method needed to reduce the specific cancer risk situation. The objective is to identify the risk and then to eliminate it and live life more. Our consultation goes one step further by identifying cancer symptoms, and forewarns the client to seek investigations & specialist’s advice if the symptoms appear or persist.
We’re not exactly sure what causes cancer. We don’t always know why one person gets it and another doesn’t. However, we do know a lot about the risk factors for cancer. The more we know about the risk factors, the more we can do to protect ourselves.
A risk factor is anything that raises or lowers a person’s chance of getting a disease.You can control some of them, but not all of them.
Risk factors for cancer include:
A lifestyle choice, like what a person eats
An environmental exposure, like smoke from other people’s cigarettes
Genetic make-up or family history
Another disease or medical problem
These things mix together with different effects on different people.Some people are more sensitive to risk factors than others. Just because you have one or even several risk factors does not mean you will definitely get cancer. And avoiding risk factors does not guarantee you will be healthy.
