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Many people still assume that diabetes is a disease of a parent or a disease arising only because of heredity. In fact, every person can have diabetes, both young and old, including you. However, you need to understand is you do not own.

According to WHO data, Indonesia ranks 4th largest in the number of patients with Diabetes Mellitus in the world. In the year 2000 alone, there are about 5.6 million Indonesian people with diabetes.

However, in 2006 the estimated number of diabetics in Indonesia rose sharply to 14 million people, in which 50 percent are aware of new diabetes and among them only about 30 percent for treatment regularly.

It is unfortunate that many diabetics who do not realize they suffer from a disease that more commonly referred to diabetes or diabetes. This may be due to the lack of information about diabetes in the community especially the symptoms.

Most cases of diabetes type 2 diabetes is caused by heredity. But heredity alone is not enough to cause a person affected by diabetes because the risk is only 5%. It turned out that type 2 diabetes is more common in people suffering from obesity due to obesity alias fro lifestyle.

Managing food into the mouth to be one important key for diabetics. Canadian Diabetes Association’s website and even elaborated on the basis of counting carbohydrate intake.

Counting carbohydrates is a flexible way to plan your food intake. This focus on foods that contain carbohydrates, considering this is the type most widely increases blood sugar.

Here are some ways to calculate carbohydrate and helps manage blood sugar levels. You can ask for help from a nutritionist in calculating this carbohydrate intake.

1. Choose healthy foods
Enjoy a variety of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, low-fat dairy products and meat as well as other choices in your food. The diversity of foods helps you stay healthy.
Use only a little fat. This mode helps control weight and blood cholesterol.
Select a  portion sizes to help you achieve or maintain healthy weight.

2. Focus on carbohydrate
Why must focus on carbohydrates? No other because the body will break down carbohydrates into glucose. Solving this will increase the amount of glucose in the blood. Carbohydrates are found in many foods such as grains, starches, fruits, vegetables, legumes, milk, sugary foods, and many other processed foods. Meat and other alternatives, most vegetable, and fat contain very little carbohydrate. Moderate portion will not give large effects on blood glucose levels.

3. Create goals for carbohydrate
Dietitian will help you set goals to total carbohydrate intake each main meal and snack. Could be the same amount from day to day or can be flexible, depending on needs. Fulfill the target intake of five grams of carbohydrates per meal or while eating a snack.

4. Determine carbohydrate
Write the foods and beverages consumed throughout the day. Be sure also to note the portion size. You may need food scale and measuring tool to be more accurate.

5. Monitor effects
You need to monitor the effects of intake of checking blood sugar levels. You can ask for a nutritionist or health worker to check blood sugar. You can also check their own blood sugar at home using a blood sugar measuring device. Thus, you can monitor blood sugar when too high and too low.

The fans turned out to coffee and tea have a lower risk of disease type 2 diabetes, the diabetes is not dependent on insulin and the type of diabetes is more common.

But the efficacy of coffee and tea to protect the body does not come from the caffeine contained in them. Proved that the non-coffee caffeine (decaf) have the best effect to ward off diabetes. Thus published in Archives of Internal Medicine, a medical journal published bi-monthly by the American Medical Association.

They based this conclusion on the results of 18 studies involving 500 thousand people. Results of analysis showed that people who drink tea 3-4 cups of coffee or tea per day lowered the risk of diabetes, 20 percent or more. Even if the drink is a non-caffeine coffee then the effect will be better ie more than 30 percent. Read more…

Food formula is often identified with the food for the baby. And there are also food formula for adults, though more often referred to special diet foods. Because there are frills “special diet” ‘customers a special one. Among them for diabetes sufferers.

Some time ago, when he drove a friend to the hospital, read a poster pasted on the bulletin board.

“Your body is like a car. Treat it well, if you do not want to get off the machine “. The poster features an illustration of two cars racing each other on the rise, and one of the cars stuck his tongue out, panting. Read more…

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a state hyperglikemia (high blood sugar levels), which chronicles with various metabolic disorders due to hormonal disturbances.

As a result of hormonal disorders it can cause complications such as cataracts in the eyes, kidneys (nephropathy), nerves and blood vessels.

There are two types of DM, the first is hanging with insulin, this type is usually caused by the destruction of Langerhans beta cells due to auto immune process. Whereas the second type is the DM that is not dependent on insulin because of the relative failure of beta cells Langerhans Read more…