Obesity And Diabetes Weight Loss Diet Nutrition Tips Guide

Obesity And Diabetes Affecting Your Quality Of Life

By Myfawny Craighter

Obesity and diabetes are in high levels in many places across the country. If you or someone in your family has diabetes or is obese, you should seek urgent medical advice to obtain a medical diagnosis and follow a treatment program. This program, may including medication and dietary changes, to slow down the symptoms of diabetes and obesity.

Symptoms of diabetes can be really severe, including loss of limbs and a reduced quality of life. The quicker treatment is sought to alleviate symptoms, the better the chances of slowing down the appearance of symptoms.

Many diabetics, find it difficult to control sugar levels in their blood, they need to avoid eating food with high levels of sugar. This is why many diabetics choose low carb foods, to help maintain their sugar levels.

The Biggest Threats

When people think about the biggest threats to the United States today, many things come to mind. First up is probably international terrorism in the form of Al-Qaeda or the like. And that's understandable - I was there on 9/11, watched the towers fall from the doorstep of my home, and lost friends and family in the tragedy.

Threats From Everywhere

If not Al-Qaeda, then it's something like our dependency on foreign oil that trips most people's wires. We are, to put it bluntly, addicted to oil. And we don't have enough in our borders (even though we're the third most oil-rich nation in the world) to satisfy that thirst.

That makes us beholden to the likes of Saudi Arabia and Iraq, places with governments that aren't really the best example of the civilized world in the twenty-first century.

Insipid And Insidious Threats

But there's an even more insipid and insidious threat to the country. It's actually two threats, but they go hand-in-hand: obesity and diabetes.

Yes, obesity and diabetes are bankrupting the United States, and it's very simply through the cost of both feeding obese people and treating diabetics. Obesity and diabetes puts the power in the hands of big agriculture like Conagra, giving them the money and power to dictate terms to politicians and control the scope of the debate.

Beholden To Pharmaceutical And Healthcare Companies

Diabetes does the same thing for big pharmaceutical companies and healthcare companies, and together those industries are doing their utmost to bankrupt the United States.

Right now healthcare takes up sixteen percent of the national budget. Ten years from now, that's expected to rise to thirty percent. Fifty years from now it'll be seventy-five percent if patterns hold.

Baby Boomers Are Living Longer

While part of that is due to the graying of the baby boomer generation and the fact that they're living longer, but less healthy lives than that of their parents, part also is due to the fact that people of every age are fatter and less healthy than we have been in the past.

So it comes back to obesity and diabetes. One leads to the other, and if we don't control what we eat we are going to bankrupt the country. To put it into perspective, take this from Wikipedia:

Obesity Is A Major Health Issue

Obesity in the United States has been increasingly cited as a major health issue in recent decades. While many industrialized countries have experienced similar increases, American obesity rates are among the highest in the world with 64% of adults being overweight or obese, and 26% are obese.

Estimates of the number of obese American adults have been rising steadily, from 19.4% in 1997, 24.5% in 2004 to 26.6% in 2007. Should current trends continue, 75% of adults in the US are projected to be overweight and 41% obese by 2015.

Increasing Medical Costs

The economic cost attributable to obesity in the United States has been estimated to be as high as $99.2 billion in 1995, with $51.64 billion attributable to direct medical costs.

Researchers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and RTI International estimate that in 2003, obesity-attributable medical expenditures reached $75 billion.

Childhood Obesity

Obesity is not only evident in old graying baby boomers. It is also in evident in children today. The popularity of fast food outlets and prevalence of food of low nutritional value and high sugar content, has contributed to a high incidence of diabetes and obesity.

If you or someone in your family has diabetes, you should contact a medical doctor to confirm the diagnosis and the doctor will advise on medication required to reduce the impact of diabetes. People suffering from diabetes, have had to suffer severe consequences, including loss of their limbs. To prevent this from happening to someone in your family, then you should take that person to a medical doctor as soon as possible.

Losing Those Excess Pounds

Obesity can be overcome. Sometimes there are serious psychological and medical conditions that contribute to obesity. Other times, a change to a nutritional diet, as advised by a dietitian will help to reverse weight gain to a weight loss and the dietitian can help to keep off the weight, to stop the pounds from coming back.

This is a major problem among many weight loss programs, where once success is achieved, people forget the principles behind the weight loss program and start eating all the fatty food and regain all those pounds.

Most weight loss programs, advise on eating nutritional food, with a combination of healthy exercise, helping you lose weight in the process. If you are a diabetic, then the dietitian will help you to choose food that is low in sugar and cholesterol, helping to slow down progress of the symptoms of diabetes.

Controlling nutrition, by making better food choices, helps to reduce the epidemic of obesity and diabetes.

Please Note: All information given on this site is for information purposes and is not to replace any medical opinion or medical diagnosis given by a qualified medical doctor, a dietitian/nutritional expert or any other medical expert, as individual circumstances may vary. Please see your medical doctor, before any action is taken to alleviate symptoms.

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About the Author:
Myfawny Craighter is an author of dieting articles including Diet Information, Weight Loss Success, Total Fat, Body Fat, Fat Scales, Special Diets, Herbal Weight Loss, Natural Herbal Products, Chinese Herbal Products, Teen Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders, Eating Disorder Information.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles coming soon.

Did You Know?

Being significantly overweight can kill you. Each pound you add to your frame puts more stress on your heart, muscles and respiratory system. Obesity can easily lead to developing diabetes and can even cost you the ability to walk if you weigh too much.

It is easy for some to diet and exercise but for others this just does not always come as easy. But there is help out there if you are overweight and cannot do it on your own. There are programs and supplements that you can take.