Losing Weight Helps Lowering Blood Sugar

Type 2 diabetes and obesity are two independent diseases. Not all type 2 diabetes patients are obese and not all obese people will develop type 2 diabetes, however it has been proved by epidemiological evidence that the more serious the obesity is the higher the incidence of type 2 diabetes.

Losing weight in obese people can help prevent the occurring of type 2 diabetes; and for obese type 2 patients, losing weight can help greatly lower blood sugar and blood lipid and reducing the dosage of antihyperglycemia agent.

The incidence of type 2 diabetes is on the rise recently and it has caused greatly damages to human health. Though obesity is not the only reason of type 2 diabetes, it has much to do with obesity. One of the major reasons is heredity and like type 1, type 2 also has the feature of familial aggregation.

Other reasons include improper diets, too much intake of fat, lack of exercises and age and nearly all these factors have something to do with obesity.

High-fat diet is closely related to obesity, increased blood sugar and diabetes. Foods that are rich in fiber, plant proteins can help prevent diabetes and control the blood sugar.

Proper and regular exercises can help improve the resistance and sensitivity of insulin and moderate exercises can help lose weight and improve lipid metabolism.

Obesity especially central obesity is an important inducing factor of type 2 diabetes. People who have more weight on their waist and abdomen have relatively higher incidence of obesity-related health problems such as diabetes than those whose weight is concentrated in the thighs and buttocks.

Another factor is age and it has something to do with obesity because as people age, we are more susceptible to obesity and the more difficult to lose weight.

It is not scared to have type 2 diabetes and it is the complications that should arouse enough attention. In the early stage, the illness condition can be brought under control through reasonable diet adjustment, proper exercises and medications.

As for the obese people, losing weight can not only lower blood sugar and control the illness condition, but also can help prevent and lower the risk of many other obesity-related diseases.