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Diabetes Awareness Month: Weight Loss Supplements For Your Health And Wellness
Diabetes currently affects 8 percent of the American population. Obesity is strongly linked to the development of diabetes and other chronic diseases that challenge the health and wellness of the Western world. As the growing obesity epidemic shows no signs of ending, the prevalence of diabetes has taken on frightening proportions. In just two short years (2005–2007), diabetes in the United States increased by 13.5 percent, bringing the estimated total of adults and children diagnosed and undiagnosed with the disease to 23.6 million.
The majority of diabetics have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, which is associated in most cases with weight gain and a sedentary lifestyle. While Type 1 diabetics produce inadequate levels of the hormone insulin, those with Type 2 diabetes may produce adequate insulin levels in the earlier stages of the disease but experience reduced sensitivity to the hormone.
Improved eating habits and nutrition, which can be further enhanced with the use of nutritional health supplements and weight loss supplements, can assist in weight reduction and improve health and wellness in diabetic patients. A lifestyle that combines good nutrition with a reduction in calories, fat, and nutritionally empty carbohydrates, coupled with a physician-approved exercise regimen, and FDA-approved prescription can go a long way to help manage the causes of this potentially deadly disorder.
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The consequences of uncontrolled diabetes are severe: blindness, kidney failure, increased risk of heart disease, and painful peripheral nerve damage. Today, most practitioners focus treatment on strict blood sugar control. While diabetes is characterized by excess blood glucose (the form of sugar used by cells as energy), this simplified approach can actually hasten the progression of the most common form of diabetes and does nothing to address the damage it causes.
A new approach to diabetes recognition and treatment is needed because the conventional wisdom has failed us. America is in the midst of a diabetes epidemic. Over the past 20 years, the number of adults diagnosed with diabetes has more than doubled, and children are being diagnosed with diabetes in alarming numbers. Diabetes has rapidly emerged as a leading culprit in the epidemic of heart disease that is sweeping the country, and it is a leading cause of amputation and blindness among adults.
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