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Obesity Can Cause Diabetes

August 30, 2008 · Posted in Diabetes and Nutrition, Weight Loss · Comments Off 

weightAre You at Risk for Obesity?


 

Tell us your success story!
Tell us what you did to prevent or manage your diabetes.

Are you overweight?

 

One way to find out if your weight puts you at risk for diabetes is to look at your body mass index, or BMI, which is based on a calculation of your height and weight. Use our BMI calculator to find out. If your BMI is over 25, you are at higher risk.

Learn more about the risks of being overweight.

You can get started right now!

 

Set a goal to get results.
If you are overweight or obese, calculate 5% of your body weight. If you weigh 150 pounds, 5% is 7.5 pounds. If you weigh 200 pounds, 5% is 10 pounds. Set a goal to lose 5% of your current body weight. Lose 5% of your weight and you have taken the first steps to reducing your health risks for diabetes and other serious conditions. Every pound you lose and keep off is a very positive step.  Get motivated to lose weight.

Don’t Just Sit There!
Being inactive contributes to type 2 diabetes, and not just because it goes hand in hand with being overweight. Physical activity helps keep blood glucose levels in check. The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) proved that type 2 diabetes can be prevented or delayed by managing weight and increasing physical activity.

Make a plan.
Include a healthy diet and physical activity. Losing weight and keeping it off is a challenge for most people. Begin your weight loss plan with the help of your health care team, and if possible, a dietician. Learn more about Healthy Weight Loss, including setting goals and getting started.

Source: American Diabetes Association

The African American Diabetic

August 30, 2008 · Posted in Diabetes Information · Comments Off 

 


Introduction

African
Compared to the general population, African Americans are disproportionately affected by diabetes:

  • 3.7 million, or 14.7% of all African Americans aged 20 years or older have diabetes.
  • African Americans are 1.6 times more likely to have diabetes as non Hispanic whites.
  • Twenty-five percent of African Americans between the ages of 65 and 74 have diabetes.
  • One in four African American women over 55 years of age has diabetes.

African Americans and Diabetes Facts
Learn more about how African Americans are disproportionately affected by diabetes.

Pre-diabetes
What is it? There are 57 million people in the US who have pre-diabetes.

Diabetes Risk Test
More than 23.6 million children and adults in the US have diabetes — one in three have not been diagnosed. Take our diabetes risk test to see if you are at risk for developing diabetes.

Make the Link
Learn about the link between diabetes and heart disease, and watch our Link for Life animation, starring Type 2 Lou.

African American Initiatives
Learn about the American Diabetes Association’s outreach efforts in the African American community.

Diabetes Complications


Diabetes is associated with an increased risk for a number of serious, sometimes life-threatening complications and certain populations experience an even greater threat. Good diabetes management can help reduce your risk. However many people are not even aware that they have diabetes until they develop one of its complications.

Blindness:
African Americans are almost 50% as likely to develop diabetic retinopathy as non-Hispanic whites.

Kidney Disease:
African Americans are 2.6 to 5.6 times as likely to suffer from kidney disease with more than 4,000 new cases of End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) each year.

Amputations:
African Americans are 2.7 times as likely to suffer from lower-limb amputations. Amputation rates are 1.4 to 2.7 times higher in men than women with diabetes.

Heart Disease and Stroke:
Heart disease and stroke account for about 65% of deaths in people with diabetes.  Adults with diabetes have heart disease death rates about 2 to 4 times higher than adults without diabetes.  The risk for stroke is 2 to 4 times higher and the risk of death from stroke is 2.8 times higher among people with diabetes.

Men and Heart Disease:  Deaths from heart disease in men with diabetes have decreased by only 13 percent compared to a 36 percent decrease in men without diabetes.

Women and Heart Disease:
  In women with diabetes, deaths from heart disease have increased 23 percent over the past 30 years compared to a 27 percent decrease in women without diabetes.

Nerve Damage: Diabetic neuropathy is a serious complication of diabetes that affects millions of people every day.  Nerves damaged by diabetic neuropathy can cause stinging or burning sensations, tingling, pain, numbness or weakness in the hands and feet.  Diabetic neuropathy puts you at risk for foot injury, infection, even amputation.

For more information on diabetes and other complications, visit Diabetes Statistics on diabetes.org.

Source: American Diabetes Association

“New Sugar” in Our Diet

August 28, 2008 · Posted in Diabetes and Diet · Comments Off 


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High-fructose corn syrup fueling obesity epidemic, doctors say

Knight Ridder Newspapers

 

FORT WORTH, Texas — High-fructose corn syrup isn’t completely responsible for the nation’s 6 million overweight children — but Dr. George Bray says it’s a big part of the problem.

Nurture trumps nature in the current childhood-obesity epidemic, says Bray. It’s the environment we’re creating for our kids that’s the problem, and that environment includes increasing numbers of products high in high-fructose corn syrup, or HFCS.

Bray, who served as founding president of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity and organized the first international congress on obesity in 1973, points out that between 1970 (when HFCS was introduced) and 2000 (when average yearly consumption of the ultra-sweet liquid sugar hit 73.5 pounds per person in this country), the prevalence of obesity more than doubled, from 15 percent to almost one-third of the adult population.

And worse, much worse, obesity among children 12 to 19 — who consume a disproportionate amount of the soft drinks, fruit juice, sports drinks and packaged cookies and other baked goods that are sweetened with HFCS — increased from 4.2 percent in 1970 to 15.3 percent in 2000.

Dangers of obesity

The implications for our children’s future are clear: “We know that if it’s not caught early, one in three of these overweight children will grow into overweight adults at increased risk for type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke and early death,” Bray said at an October presentation in Fort Worth.

But there is hope. Obesity is largely preventable through changes in lifestyle, especially diet, says Bray, who called for removing soda machines from schools and reducing portion sizes of commercially available sodas in his now-famous commentary in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in April 2004.

 

Cutting back the sugar

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Here are some easy ways to cut down on high-fructose corn syrup and other added sugars:

Buy only 100 percent juice instead of fruit “drinks,” “punches,” “cocktails” or “-ades,” which are simply code names for added sugar — primarily high-fructose corn syrup.

That said, choose whole fruits over fruit juices. Even 100 percent juices supply a concentrated source of fructose and calories without the fiber and nutrients found in whole fruits. Limit juice to one 8-ounce serving a day.

Cut back on soda. A single 12-ounce can contains about 13 teaspoons of sugar in the form of high-fructose corn syrup. Drink water, seltzer, sugar-free iced teas and low-fat milk instead.

Choose fruits canned in juice instead of heavy syrup and opt for unsweetened applesauce and frozen fruits.

Snack on a handful of nuts, a chunk of cheese or piece of fruit instead of sweets.

At breakfast, eat a bowl of low-sugar whole-grain cereal instead of a cereal bar, toaster pastry, doughnut or sweet roll.

High on sugar

The federal dietary guidelines recommend that we limit added sugars to about 8 teaspoons (32 grams) a day for an average 2,000-calorie diet. But many soft drinks far exceed that. Although the following bottles are labeled as 2 ½ servings per container, most people consume them in one sitting:

Arizona Raspberry Iced Tea (20-ounce bottle): 15 teaspoons of sugar

Pepsi (20-ounce bottle): 17 teaspoons of sugar

Hawaiian Punch (20-ounce bottle): 18 teaspoons of sugar

Chicago Tribune

Larger portions, more high-fat fast foods, less exercise of any kind, irregular sleep patterns, lower consumption of milk and other high-calcium foods, and increased consumption of HFCS in beverages go a long way toward explaining the obesity epidemic, Bray says.

“Genetic factors play an important role in the development of obesity, but given the rapidity with which the current epidemic of obesity has descended on the U.S. and many other countries, environmental factors are a more likely explanation,” he says. “Whatever its genetic and biochemical determinants, obesity in man is susceptible to an extraordinary degree of control of social factors. Environment is very important.”

You stop feeling full

Bray says the problem with HFCS is not only that it is sweeter than other forms of sugar, but also that it does not affect appetite. Fructose adds to overeating because it does not trigger chemical messengers that tell the brain the stomach is full and no longer hungry, like food and drinks that contain regular refined sugar do.

An internist whose pioneering research helped establish the connections between weight gain and the development of type 2 diabetes, Bray is a research professor and former director of the Pennington Center at Louisiana State University, the largest nutritional research center in the world.

He says consumers would be a lot better off without added sugar in any form, but that artificial sweeteners are much preferred over calorically sweetened drinks, even for children.

“Children less than 5 probably shouldn’t have any sweetened drinks, and for older children, diet drinks are better than regular soft drinks and fruit drinks,” Bray said. “A lot of parents are concerned about the ‘chemicals’ added to sweeten diet soft drinks, but all forms of extra added sugar and artificial sweeteners are bad. We don’t need added sugar in our diet.”

Bray is calling for improved packaging and labeling for food meant to be consumed as a single serving. Too many ready-to-eat foods and drinks are labeled as single servings but packaged as two or even three servings.

“It’s hard to find a single-serving soft drink,” he said. “Portion size is something government (the Food and Drug Administration) can and should do something about.”

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