By
Beverleigh H Piepers
When your doctor gives you your Type 2 diabetes diagnosis, you
will immediately ask why and how. While these may sound like simple
questions, the opposite is true. There's no single reason why you
develop diabetes and you don't develop it overnight. It takes a long
time and many different facets of your life are involved.
To get an idea of what you do to "attract" diabetes, let's look at a case study. This isn't based on
a single person but rather a mixture of different scenarios blended together to give you a basic picture.
Our central character is Joe. He's 42 years of age and weighs 330 pounds. He's 5'10" tall and obviously obese. He smokes a packet of cigarettes a day and likes his beer, but he doesn't go overboard.
He works as a call centre operator and he spends his working day in front of a computer. He doesn't play sport but watches a lot of it on TV, especially on the weekends, when he'll eat a big bowl of chips and drink a large bottle of coke to keep him company.
He lives alone and hates cooking so his diet is mainly takeaway food or home delivered pizza. He can easily polish off a large pizza on his own and still be hungry. He does no exercise, has high blood pressure, high cholesterol and snores when he sleeps.
Maybe you know somebody like Joe. Now let's look at why his doctor is about to tell him he has Type 2 diabetes...
Joe leads a sedentary lifestyle. He doesn't exercise and sits at a computer all day. So his weight slowly continues to climb. He snacks all day and his lunch is usually greasy and fried. He parks close to work so he doesn't need to walk.
He snores because of his obesity. He has severe sleep apnea as a result and that's also dangerous. His cholesterol and blood pressure readings are high because of his lifestyle. Because he lives alone, he has no motivation to eat healthy food. His last relationship broke up because of a massive argument over his poor health and the fact he didn't care about it.
Considering his poor diet, it's not surprising Joe is obese and has probably had Type 2 diabetes for a several years but it hasn't been detected until now. His last doctor's visit was approximately two years earlier.
Perhaps his doctor can convince him to change his unhealthy habits.
If you think this is an unusual case, you're wrong. It's more normal than you could imagine. One in five people have Type 2 diabetes and many don't even know it.
Do you know somebody like Joe? Maybe it's a family member or a friend. Do them a favor and take them to a doctor. You could very well save their life.
To get an idea of what you do to "attract" diabetes, let's look at a case study. This isn't based on
a single person but rather a mixture of different scenarios blended together to give you a basic picture.
Our central character is Joe. He's 42 years of age and weighs 330 pounds. He's 5'10" tall and obviously obese. He smokes a packet of cigarettes a day and likes his beer, but he doesn't go overboard.
He works as a call centre operator and he spends his working day in front of a computer. He doesn't play sport but watches a lot of it on TV, especially on the weekends, when he'll eat a big bowl of chips and drink a large bottle of coke to keep him company.
He lives alone and hates cooking so his diet is mainly takeaway food or home delivered pizza. He can easily polish off a large pizza on his own and still be hungry. He does no exercise, has high blood pressure, high cholesterol and snores when he sleeps.
Maybe you know somebody like Joe. Now let's look at why his doctor is about to tell him he has Type 2 diabetes...
Joe leads a sedentary lifestyle. He doesn't exercise and sits at a computer all day. So his weight slowly continues to climb. He snacks all day and his lunch is usually greasy and fried. He parks close to work so he doesn't need to walk.
He snores because of his obesity. He has severe sleep apnea as a result and that's also dangerous. His cholesterol and blood pressure readings are high because of his lifestyle. Because he lives alone, he has no motivation to eat healthy food. His last relationship broke up because of a massive argument over his poor health and the fact he didn't care about it.
Considering his poor diet, it's not surprising Joe is obese and has probably had Type 2 diabetes for a several years but it hasn't been detected until now. His last doctor's visit was approximately two years earlier.
Perhaps his doctor can convince him to change his unhealthy habits.
If you think this is an unusual case, you're wrong. It's more normal than you could imagine. One in five people have Type 2 diabetes and many don't even know it.
Do you know somebody like Joe? Maybe it's a family member or a friend. Do them a favor and take them to a doctor. You could very well save their life.
The effects of Type 2 diabetes can be reduced considerably. Type 2
diabetes is not a condition you must just live with. It's up to you to
take control of the disease and take back your health.
For nearly 25 years Beverleigh Piepers has searched for and found a number of secrets to help you build a healthy body.
The answer isn't in the endless volumes of available information but in yourself.
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For nearly 25 years Beverleigh Piepers has searched for and found a number of secrets to help you build a healthy body.
The answer isn't in the endless volumes of available information but in yourself.
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