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Get the skinny on 'diabesityu'
Get the skinny on 'diabesityu' -- Posted by tigerlilly@privacy.net.org.com on 06-05-05 10:26
Get the skinny on 'diabesityu'
By Dr. Dave Hepburn
"Bloggins, your test results are back and I'm sorry to tell you that you have
diabesity."
"Which means I'm simply a sweet plump guy, right?" Bloggins inquires, his chins
resting on a flabdomen the size of Mt. St. Helens, the early years.
"It means you have diabetes caused by obesity. Your blood sugars are high and
you have the girth of one about to give birth. You are a waddling time bomb for
a massive heart attack."
"But I don't eat that much sugar. Now the missus, she eats so much sugar her
cellulite is turning into cellulard."
"Even though the average North American consumes 155 pounds of sugar per year,
151 of those at Easter, eating sugar is not the cause of diabetes. Rather, the
large amount of adipose tissue (fat) that accumulates around our vital organs is
the main cause of diabetes, hence the term diabesity."
An alarming and dismaying epidemic of diabesity is overtaking our nation. Twelve
per cent of our society over the age of 40 are diabetic with close to half of
those unaware that they have this disease. Fifty years ago only 10 per cent of
diabetics were obese, now an astounding 90 per cent of all diabetics are obese.
Who is at risk for diabesity? Those:
*With a girth greater than 94 centimetres for men, 80 centimetres for women,
regardless of height;
*with a family history of diabetes;
*with a sedentary lifestyle;
*age 45;
*women who have had a baby weighing more than four kilograms or women who have
been diagnosed with polycystic ovaries; and
*with borderline elevated blood sugars, triglycerides and low HDL (the good
cholesterol).
Diabesity, once diagnosed, means you are at risk for:
*Heart attacks and stroke (98 per cent of diabetics are a very high risk for a
vascular event). In the hierarchy of risk factors for coronary disease, the
number-one killer in our society, diabetes ranks right up there with smoking.
Next to quitting smoking, preventing diabetes is the most important thing you
can do for your cardiac health;
*premature aging. Diabetes causes premature cell death, also known as aging;
*kidney failure;
*heart failure;
*blindness - too much sugar cane can lead to too many white canes; and
*nerve pain.
How to avoid it:
*Know the levels of your HDL, triglycerides and fasting glucose and have them
checked every three years after age 45.
*Exercise 30 minutes every day except Sunday. Thirty minutes per day is as
effective as taking one diabetic pill in keeping blood sugar low!
*Keep your girth less than the risk values above. Waist not, want cardiologist
not.
*If you are overweight (the elephants throw you peanuts) then reducing body
weight by five per cent per year can lower the risk of developing diabetes by as
much as 60 per cent!
What tests should you do to determine diabetes risk?
*Fasting HDL cholesterol;
*fasting triglyceride;
*fasting glucose; and
*fasting belt size.
Dr. Dave writes here every Saturday.
posted on 05/07/2005
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