Important to Know! How to Prevent Diabetes

How to Prevent Diabetes - According to the Minister of Health, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, the number of diabetics in Indonesia continues to increase yearly. Meanwhile, the WHO world health organization states that 422 million people worldwide have contracted this disease.

This is due to people's tendency to consume sweet foods. Consumption of sugar certainly correlates with the number of people with diabetes.

Every year, more than one million people die from this disease. Although it does not kill directly, diabetes is the main trigger when the body cannot process all the sugar (glucose) in the bloodstream.

So that the body is susceptible to complications that trigger heart attacks, high blood pressure, blindness, kidney failure, and lower limb amputation.

"Diabetes is the mother of all diseases. So if you have diabetes for a long time, that person will be more susceptible to other serious diseases, such as kidney failure, stroke, heart disease and many other diseases," said Budi to reporters at the DPR RI Building Complex, Monday (26/9) quoted via Suara.com.

"In Indonesia, diabetes sufferers are steadily increasing from year to year. If I'm not mistaken, the latest data shows that 13% of Indonesia's population has diabetes," he added.

He also added that Indonesian people should be more aware of this disease by controlling their sugar intake in food and drinks.

"So I want to remind you to reduce sugar. The Indonesian people drink excess sugar in whatever way," he added.

If the Indonesian people continue to maintain a lifestyle that is excessive in eating and smoking, then by 2030, it is predicted that there will be 30 million people with this disease. Diabetes ranks third as a deadly disease after stroke and heart.

According to Dr. Susie Setyowati, this figure could triple in about ten years.

"Diabetes cannot be cured, but it can be controlled so that complications do not occur," said the endocrine, metabolic diabetes consultant in Jakarta.

One way to prevent diabetes from getting worse is to control your sugar intake, exercise, and not smoke.

"The risk of diabetes can be reduced if only you can lose 10% weight," said Dr. Susie

"When you eat, the body will break down carbohydrates into sugar or glucose. So, a hormone called insulin produced in the pancreas gives orders to the body's cells to absorb this sugar into energy," she explained.

"If diabetics, the pancreas does not produce insulin or the insulin in the body does not work properly, as a result, sugar in the blood accumulates because it is not broken down and converted into energy," said dr. Susie quoted in Suara.com.

There are two types of diabetes: type one and type two. In type one diabetes, the pancreas cannot produce insulin. While type two is when the pancreas produces less insulin or insulin that does not work properly.

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