30 million people are suffering from diabetes in India. By 2025, India will be number one in the world with the maximum number of people with diabetes and most of them will be between 40 and 64 years of age. If you think now is not the time for you to worry about diabetes think again. Many of us will be 45 plus and many of us will cross 60 years of age 22 years from now. Juvenile diabetes snuffs out more than 12 thousand young lives every year in India. Many more die undiagnosed. The killer is going to take many more young lives in the next 25 years. Your children will face the threat of the disease a few years down the line. "Teach your children well" as the famous Crossby Still Nash song goes " and they will love you." Teach them to keep diabetes away while you take protection
What exactly is diabetes?
Many of us are deprived of the sweetness of life due to diabetes mellitus in our bodies caused by the deficiency of insulin or the insensitivity of its receptors. In lay man's language it means that your blood glucose (often called blood sugar) is too high. Your blood always has some glucose in it because your body needs glucose for energy to keep you going. But too much glucose in the blood isn't good for your health.
Glucose comes from the food you eat and is also made in your liver and muscles. Your blood carries the glucose to all the cells in your body. Insulin is a chemical (a hormone) made by the pancreas. The pancreas releases insulin into the blood. Insulin helps the glucose from food to get into your cells. If your body doesn't make enough insulin or if the insulin doesn't work the way it should, glucose can't get into your cells. It stays in your blood instead. Your blood glucose level then gets too high, causing pre-diabetes or diabetes.
Common Symptoms of Diabetes
Diabetes makes you feel tired and thirsty all the time and you have to go to the toilet every now and then. It’s a huge discomfort living with diabetes. Your eyesight becomes blurred and you may get into a deep depression as well. You may end up with numbness of the limbs and heart diseases. Diabetes is certainly a killer disease that is attacking more and more of us in India every year.
