These statistics translate into roughly three new cases are diagnosed every ten seconds or nearly ten million per year and in 2030, one in 10 adults suffer this disease. The IDF also estimates that 183 million people are unaware they have it.

“In some of the poorest regions of the world such as Africa, where infectious diseases have traditionally been the focus of the health care system, cases of diabetes are expected to increase by 90%” this year, IDF said in a statement. He added that at least 78% of patients in Africa are not diagnosed and are unaware that they live with this condition.

According to figures from the federation, 80% of people with diabetes live in low-and middle-income and the highest number of people affected is between 40 and 59. In addition, 78 000 children develop type 1 diabetes each year.

“In all countries and communities around the world, we are losing the battle against this cruel and deadly disease,” said Jean Claude Mbanya, president of the IDF, in Belgium.

“We want the World Diabetes Day 2011, take these facts alarming to the center of world attention. We demand that the public and global leaders take immediate action,” he said.

The disclosure of these figures came after the UN meeting on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) held in New York in September with the participation of 193 heads of state. Diabetes is one of these conditions in some countries, calls for more action to combat it.
The World Diabetes Day (WDD) is celebrated every year on November 14 and the campaign held on this date worldwide is conducted by the IDF and its member associations.

Even this anniversary was established in 1991 by the Federation and the World Health Organization (WHO) in response to growing concerns about the health hazards imposed by this disease.

Although not ban any foods from the different groups, it is necessary to control the amount, for this, the help of endocrinologist, nutritionist and dietitian is essential, never overlook.

Moreover, it is noteworthy that one of the tricks that all patients with diabetes have up his sleeve is the intake of dietary fiber, because, as I described earlier, slows the absorption of carbohydrates.

But it should be clear that this does not mean they can be eaten without limit sugary drinks, sweets and desserts, this is only an aid that the patient has at its disposal.

Note that it is very important to keep your blood sugar levels as close to normal levels to prevent the disease is complicated and decrease their quality of life, for it only requires four components: diet, constant glucose measurement, medicine and sports. Just a matter of work a little and not feel limited.

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Dieting does not mean they should ignore the natural signals of hunger that sends the body, but to adopt a healthy diet that suits the needs of each individual. Therefore, it is necessary to listen to your body and recognize when it is hungry at what point has been met.

The previous recommendation is especially important for those with diabetes, otherwise you eat and are given drugs to control blood sugar levels, they may fall below normal limits, which results in loss of consciousness.

As we know, this disease is characterized by increased glucose in the bloodstream because the body no longer produces insulin (a hormone that is responsible for distributing sugar to the liver and muscles), a condition called type 1, or if the substance is secreted in small quantities and their action is weak (type 2).

There is a list of foods that are absolutely prohibited, all in smaller portions, may be included in your meal plan. Note that if you prohibit certain food will feel robbed and angry, which will only eat them without control, so you need to consider that products and food that increase your blood sugar will be consumed in increasing quantities small, combined with other foods and coordinated with changes in medication doses or exercise.

Carbohydrates

They consist of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, and were classified as simple and complex. The first is characterized by sweet, are digested quickly and immediately enter the blood, therefore, give us instant energy. In turn, are divided into monosaccharides (eg glucose, fructose and galactose, whose main sources are honey, fruit, milk and juice) and disaccharides (sucrose, maltose and lactose, found in refined sugar, milk, beer and jams).

The complex calls are not sweet, take longer to digest and, therefore, their passage into the blood is slow, among them are the oligosaccharides (maltotriose and dextrins, contained, for example, sports energy drinks or biscuits) and polysaccharides, which in turn are divided into starchy foods (starch and starch present in potatoes, sweet potatoes, cereals, pasta, bread and bananas) and fibrous (so called cellulose, lignin and pectin, rice, tortilla, wheat bran and oat , apples and green vegetables, etc.).

You should consider that carbohydrates must always be present in the body, as well as provide power, allow the “savings” of protein to build and repair muscles. It is necessary to constitute 60% of the daily diet, whether it be directed to athletes, people with diabetes, breastfeeding women or children, but should review the support it receives to make sure the amount your body tolerates.

Fruits and vegetables

It is very important to eat fruits and vegetables every day since, besides providing vitamins, minerals and fiber, the majority are naturally low in fat, sugar and sodium when consumed as an input or snack will make you feel satisfied, so it will be less likely to overeat.

It is recommended that you eat 100 to 150 grams of vegetables such as spinach, celery, eggplant, watercress, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, asparagus, spinach, lettuce, radish, carrot, pumpkin, onion, sprouts, mushrooms, beans, artichoke and garlic.

The amount of fruit is approximately 100 grams, of which there is great variety, for example, peach, plum, strawberry, pomegranate, kiwi, lemon, tangerine, apple, peach, melon, quince, orange, pear, watermelon, cherries, figs, persimmons and grapes.

Fiber

It is the part of plants that humans can not digest, it is not absorbed, there are two types: insoluble and soluble. The first does not dissolve in water and acts like a broom, and that helps clean the intestinal walls, with foods that contain it are fruit and vegetable skins, whole grain breads and cereals.

The soluble is vital in controlling glucose levels because it leaves the stomach slowly and this causes those who consume to feel full longer, besides, making the absorption of carbohydrates is slower. It is found in beans, oats and barley and some fruits and vegetables.

Fats

Following moderate-fat diet is beneficial for people with diabetes, helping the digestion is slower, controls the amount of glucose and causes it to feel full after small meal or snack. The tricky part is knowing how much is needed for individuals who have the disease, nutrition specialists consider that consumption should not exceed two tablespoons a day.

As part of the diet low in fat, it is important to prefer those that protect the heart, as so-called omega-3 and omega-9 and monounsaturated fats, found in olive and walnut oils, salmon, sardines, beans soybean and spinach.

Meat

As we know, the meat we provide protein, folic acid and iron, no reason to suppress their intake, the important thing is to remove all the fat and consume 2 to 3 times a week alternating between the red (beef, lamb, goat and pig) and white (chicken, fish and rabbit).

Each serving should weigh between 150 and 200 grams, and should always be served with a garnish of vegetables and beans also have to consider that the portion of meat can be replaced by an equal weight of liver, 200 grams and 250 grams of squid mussels.

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For the person with diabetes is very important information about diet to follow, because it depends on the control of the disease. Learn about the sugar content of fruit, to establish an appropriate system and healthy.

One of the first questions is who has diabetes is, what I eat and what not it, because it is important to know how to control blood glucose (70 to 100 milligrams in 100 milliliters). The goal is to keep this material as close as possible to normal levels, which is accomplished by developing a diet that meets the needs of each case.

In addition to the restrictions on the use of sugar is concerned, it is important that the patient keep a close to ideal weight, because obesity is directly related to the presence of glucose, that is, the more weight you have, the greater the body’s need to eat sugar, so diets should be designed to control weight, while keeping the patient better nourished as possible.

In this sense, foods like fruits are not entirely forbidden, as an important part for the proper functioning of the nervous system and the production of energy, vitamins, minerals and fiber. The point is when to eat and how much, the whole fruit, for example, more satisfying than the juice, which becomes an excellent option for those who need to lose weight.

Thus, consumption of fruits can be combined, and something very important: try to eat fresh and never with sugar. Below is a list of specified daily amount of some fruits, you see that there are many who can switch their consumption to not be deprived of its flavor, keep good weight and excellent health.

Cherries (raw) ½ cup.
Plum (raw, medium), two pieces.
Peach, one or 3 / 4 cup.
Strawberries (raw, whole), a cup and 1 / 4.
Granada, half of one.
Figs (raw), 1 / 2 cup.
Kiwi (large), a piece.
Tangerine, 3 / 4 cup.
Mango (small), half of one.
Apple (raw), a piece.
Melon, half a piece.
Orange, half of one.
Papaya, a cup.
Pera, a piece or 1 / 2 cup.
Pineapple (raw), 1 / 2 cup.
Banana, 1 / 2 cup.
Watermelon (diced), a cup and 1 / 4.
Grapefruit half into chunks.
Grapes (small), 15 pieces.
In the case of dried fruit, they can also be eaten, then we provide the recommended daily amount for the patient with diabetes to eat them without any negative effects:

Raisins or prunes, two tablespoons.
Plum (medium), three pieces.
Dates (medium), two pieces and 1 / 2.
Figs, one-piece 1 / 2.
Apples, four slices.
For the person who has diabetes, diet is a mainstay for the preservation of good health. So if this is the case do not forget, besides the aforementioned fruits, integrate its food system to provide it with carbohydrates (in balance) and fiber, like whole wheat bread, grains (rice, corn, wheat, rye and more) , pasta and cereal.

The physician should tailor each diet taking into account the specific needs of the individual, since the objective is, first, maintain a weight that is close to ideal and, second, to control glucose levels in the body, so avoid any risk because of diabetes.

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Gestational diabetes occurs in 7 out of 100 pregnancies, the problem is known for a long time, and there are a lot of experience and have developed various plans of treatment control and monitoring, this means that gestational diabetes is a factor more to consider during pregnancy, once delivery has taken place there will be time to study the mother carefully to see what happens to your metabolism and how to follow thereafter.

Gestational diabetes control: for the meal plan, the professional that assists pregnant women with gestational diabetes, a nutritionist has made him a diet as it meets the basic principles common to all moms who have that problem. and can be no pregnancy is full of challenges and sacrifices are only about a pregnancy which is necessary to follow cautiously balanced diet and adequate physical education, elements that serve to improve the quality of life of any pregnancy, although is not developing gestational diabetes.

1. Ischemic ulcer
2. Abscesses
3. Gangrene
4. Cellulite
5. Callus / ulcer

These peripheral vascular disease, is common in people with diabetes, ulcers that appear in the diabetic foot can be is chemic, neuropathic or mixed. When detected early can prevent progression that can be superficial or deep, these ulcers can be very painful ischemic serious problem that arises is that the neuropathy causes the patient to lose sensation in the affected area, ie do not feel that is occurring ulcer.

The diabetic foot:
Symptoms: vascular, cold feet, pain at rest (night), decreased blood supply. Neurological: tingling, burning, numbness, hypersensitivity, dry skin, sores that will not heal, changes in skin color, etc. Gangrene: When the ischemia is in progress leads to develop gangrene, this is death and putrefaction of tissue.

Lindu Stacy Tessler of the University of Chicago (USA), is lead author of a study called Project is part of the National Life, Health and Aging. It has involved 1,993 adults aged 57 to 85 years.

“The sexual problems may be a sign of diabetes or a consequence of it that is often associated with depression, lack of adherence to treatment and relationship problems. Studies of sexuality and suffering from diabetes have been conducted with small samples of patients, not including over 65 years. However, data are needed based on a larger number of patients to specialists understand how sexual functioning in people diagnosed with the disease or not, “say the authors in the last” Diabetes Care. This is one reason why Dr. Tessler has conducted this research in the “that provide specific data on the activity and behavior and sexual problems of middle-aged and older,” he says. Scientists conducted surveys on sexuality (frequency of intercourse with a partner or masturbation, sex problems, ability to achieve orgasm, among others). Also investigated the health status of participants or the type of drugs consumed. We also performed a blood test to establish whether they had diabetes or not. “Based on a blood test found that 47% of men had diabetes. 25% were aware of having the disease while 22% had not yet been diagnosed. Also, almost 40% of women suffered (half had been diagnosed and the other half), “say the authors.

The data show that “although the disease is associated with high sexual inactivity, those affected who do have sex they do it with frequency and behavior in their relationships similar to that of healthy people,” reads the essay. Despite this good news, the authors also found that the disease, nevertheless affects the desire and the rewards of sexual activity. Thus, men diagnosed with diabetes were more likely to express a lack of interest in sex and experience erectile dysfunction or premature ejaculation than healthy. Recognized diabetic women to refuse sex due to problems like low libido or difficulty achieving orgasm. They (almost half) that consult further with the doctor their sexual problems. They, in contrast, suffer in silence: only one out of five said the specialist.

The study refers to masturbation. “Adults with diabetes tend to practice less than those without the disease.” For the authors of the research is relevant to “the high prevalence of ED in those diagnosed with diabetes (55%), and those affected still had no medical opinion (40.5%) compared with healthy men (32%) . “Not having a diagnosis of diabetes protects individuals from the psychological burden and stigma of the disease. The high prevalence of difficulties with orgasm in people aware of their disease suggests that they have a predominantly physical. Erectile dysfunction and the loss of sexual interest in men with medical opinion may be partly due to the psychological burden of diabetes, the authors determined. For them it is “essential that physicians ask their patients with diabetes and their sex life, especially for women. Attention to potentially treatable sexual problems in middle age and older improve their quality of life and adherence to treatment, “concludes the paper.

One of the queries that are made to Traumatology is neck pain. Although it may appear after age 30, it is common that occur in people from 45 or 50 years, sedentary lifestyle and especially with office work. Usually begins as a pain in the neck that moves toward the back of the head and both shoulders, and disappears when you change position or at bedtime. Over time the pain is more intense, there is a limitation of neck movements and pain moves to the arms and hands, and appeared tingling or loss of strength. It is also often occur when moving the neck cracking sideways and dizziness related to neck movement.

The pain begins as cause cervical muscular and therefore appears in people who have to stay long in fixed positions with the head. Before it was a common disease in the dressmakers, laundresses or even housewives who stayed long periods of time sewing and embroidering, but it is more common in people who perform clerical work and especially with computers. As time passes and if they have not taken appropriate action appears cervical osteoarthritis, at which time the symptoms depend not only on muscles but also the bone. Even in this situation, the pain may be continuous, not decrease with the rest, the patient can not move his neck properly and has difficulty driving or performing work activities.

As is almost always the best treatment is prevention. Find a comfortable position at work, with the head resting on a high-backed chair, resting periodically changing positions, sleep with a pillow and floor exercises and sports like swimming, are easy to follow and tips for everyone. Work required in a position where prolonged or repetitive movements with your neck, be provided with ergonomic seats, that is specifically designed for such professions. Are useful for pain and physical therapy massage and may also need medications that relax the muscles and remove pain.

The onset of arthritis in the neck is not supposed to suspend all activity, unlike daily exercise is needed to promote movement of the neck and only in very painful and always in short periods of time, use a collar.

The upright man has taken over the evolution of the species has its drawbacks and one of them is the frequent occurrence of cervical arthrosis. The neck muscles need movement and powerful, in general and especially in certain professions is not the case and it seems that humans are condemned to suffer increasingly frequent neck pain.

The team tested a compound that blocks the production of serotonin produced in the gut in mice and rats with a severe form of the disease and found they recovered their bone density.

Using the findings, he said the team is working to develop this type of treatment for human patients with osteoporosis, in which bones become fragile and porous, increasing the risk of fracture.

The study builds on prior research by the same team that found the chemical messenger serotonin – when released by the gut – inhibits bone formation.

Serotonin is most commonly known for its role in the brain as a chemical messenger but 95 per cent of the serotonin in the body is produced in the gut as a way to regulate bone formation, said Dr Gerard Karsenty of Columbia University Medical Center in New York, whose study appears in the journal Nature Medicine.

“We thought that if we could inhibit the synthesis of serotonin in the gut, it could be a way to treat osteoporosis,” he said. “Luckily for us, there are a couple of inhibitors of gut-derived serotonin that do not affect the synthesis of brain-derived serotonin.”

He said the drug had been tested in people in early safety studies but the findings were preliminary and many more tests were needed before it can be tested in people with osteoporosis.

Parents with children who drink from time to time to teach them to use alcohol in moderation or are able to eat at home with friends only seek to educate on responsible consumption, but they are wrong.

At least this is the scenario that follows from a new study finds that young people who have ‘permission’ to drink at home have more opportunities to abuse alcohol out of it and to develop problems related to their abuse.

Its principal author, Haske van der Vorst, Institute of Behavioral Sciences at Radboud University in Nijmegen (Netherlands), clarifies the reasons ELMUNDO.es. “Alcohol is a drug which when used, it stimulates the brain to want more. In addition, youth have less developed brains, at least in part self-control. It is also difficult for a teen not to drink and to control consumption. Secondly, drinking at home gives them the impression that it is something that is good and will do so in other circumstances. “In their study, published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs’, recalls that “in most European countries the use of alcoholic ethylic the young people has become a public health problem because it includes aggression , crime and abuse problems.
Emergencies

In fact, this week, and during the celebration in Barcelona of the V Day Update in Toxicology, was released a study (conducted during 2007 and 200), coordinated by Victoria Trenchs, Hospital San Joan de Deu, which reveals that Most emergency room visits are teenage drug abuse due to alcohol consumption. The work, with patients aged 12 to 18 years, shows that the total of 26,240 made to the urgent care pediatric service of the center of 1% was due to drug abuse. A 76% alteration of consciousness by using ethyl drinks.

For scientists Dutchmen, “prevention is the most important way to decrease the chances that boys and girls to abuse it. Many programs are designed to withstand the pressures children of friends, although in recent years have emerged other trends such as that parents supervise the use, teaching them social and rational use of alcohol at home in order to limit the excesses out of it. However, many of these measures are not enough scientific backing.

The authors sent an e-mail to 5,000 families in 20 municipalities Dutchmen who are participating in the study Family and Health [aimed at reviewing the various processes of socialization of the population as healthy behaviors during adolescence]. Finally, the sample consisted of 428 work, all with both parents and two children aged 13 to 15 years. They are followed for two years.

After measuring through questionnaires ethylic beverage consumption at home and abroad, besides the existence of problems with its consumption [as' do not do homework because of the ingestion], the authors found that 53% had ingested alcohol in the month preceding the study with his father, of whom 73% had done so within the home. 43% had taken ’some drink’ with her mother, most of them at home. On the consumer with friends, 79% of teens surveyed have eaten, half of these cases also, within the family home.
Parental example

And the children follow the parents’ behavior. “The fact that they drink predicts that their offspring will also do inside and outside the home,” the researchers comment.

After computing all the data, the authors found that adolescents who drank more alcohol at home were also the most consumed in bars. And more disturbingly, those who ate larger amounts of ethanol were the only two years later were more likely to develop problems associated with this intake.

“The conclusion is easy to draw. If, first, you drink at home is likely to initially have fewer problems with high alcohol consumption. But our data suggest that household consumption predicts both increased levels of intake within and outside the short term as an increase of the negative consequences associated with their use, “the study concludes.
Recommendations

Haske van der Vorst advises parents who do not want “their children develop patterns of consumption in adolescence will stick tight restrictions on it and monitor their daily activities.”

Despite these data, the authors stress the need “to conduct further work to replicate these results and propose to evaluate the effects of moderators (drinking or not do with parents and friends or not) adolescent consumption separately. Remember, above all, that parents are the ones who should be more aware of their role in preventing the onset of consumption. And for children, this advice: “Alcohol is for adults. Do not drink ever, at least until the age of 16 years,” lead author Dr. reflects research.