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All body cells need them daily energy intake in order to work properly, regulating vital functions (such as heartbeat, digestion and breathing movements), control body temperature and keep the muscles active. This requirement is obtained by monitoring diet balanced in nutrients, which include protein, vitamins, fats and sugar, which is one of the main sources of energy. Also called glucose, and is an element belonging to the group of carbohydrates, which are composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, and were classified as simple and complex. The first is characterized by sweet, digested from coming into contact with saliva and absorbed quickly into the blood, therefore, provide energy immediately. In turn, are divided into polysaccharides (e.g. glucose, fructose, which is major sources of honey, fruit, milk and juices) and dis-saccharides (e.g. sucrose, maltose and lactose, found in table sugar, milk, beer and jams).
The complex calls are not sweet, take longer to digest and, therefore, their passage into the bloodstream is slow; among them are the oligosaccharides and polysaccharides, the latter are divided into starchy foods (starch and starch, for example, 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.).
Step through the body
When you eat some food passes along the digestive tract, where it starts chain of chemical transformations it nutrients and when you reach the small intestine, containing glucose into the blood. This fluid is responsible for transport to the liver (as a reserve), brain and body cells, where it is used as energy.
For this to be achieved requires insulin, a substance that serves as the key that unlocks the cell door, while brain and nerve tissue do not require the presence of this element, receiving stream directly from sugar blood.
However, once the glucose into the cells is degraded with the aid of oxygen, i.e., enters a state of combustion and as a result becomes water (remove or reuse) and carbon dioxide (which breathe through lungs.) In this way energy is released in our tissues, which allows us to think, study, remember, speak, walk, run, work, breathe, have sex and to rest.
When there is deficiency of blood sugar (hypoglycemia) the body, in an effort to get it, transforms the protein-carbohydrate to prevent irreversible damage to our health, because due to the lack of the "fuel" the body can not function properly which even reaches lead to death of neurons (brain cells).
Although this disease has no specific cause is said to be connected with certain risk factors, including:
Family history of disease.
Viral infections that can affect the pancreas.
Alterations of the body's defense system, which leads to self-destruction of its own insulin-producing cells.
Obesity.
Poor eating habits.
Little or no physical exercise.
It is very important to follow the treatment to the letter and keep glucose levels in check, because the people who are high for long periods may have injuries to eyes, kidneys and nerves, foot infections and heart attack.
Finally, consider that it is possible to keep under control the high and low blood glucose, only requires that the affected do your part and follow your meal plan, measure your blood sugar levels several times a day, practice exercise and take the appropriate dose and schedule your medications. In this way, it will be possible to continue normal life and prevent complications of hypoglycemia and diabetes impairs their health.
Consult your doctor.
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Monday, October 31, 2011
Deficiency of Blood Sugar
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Hypoglycemia Diet Plan
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The correct diet for a hypoglycemia patient that should be followed by all people, even if we have a health problem. Diabetes, therefore, is not a situation we should be frustrated and we exclude from our social life. By following a few rules of proper nutrition and, with proper training can regulate our blood sugar and participate in all our social events without fear.
What is different in a hypoglycemia patient's diet, are amounts that could be consumed in specific food categories, and certainly the amount and quality of freshwater. Specifically you should:
Eat a variety of foods. No food is bad or forbidden enough to be consumed in adequate quantity.
Do you regularly and organized meals. This means that you should ensure that you have three regular meals a day (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and 2-3 intermediate (brunch, afternoon, before sleep). It is important not stay hungry for long periods (more than three hours) to avoid sugar fluctuates sharply, and not to eat late at night.
Keep the weight to ideal levels. Obesity has a negative impact on prices of sugar and loss of even a few pounds in this case helps a lot in the configuration.
Choose foods rich in fiber. This will help to better regulate blood sugar. Such foods are: vegetables, fruits, cereals and pasta, whole grains, legumes.
Avoid sweets and sugar, and they increase sharply the prices of sugar. This does not mean that as we have to exclude completely from your diet.
Limit fat. Foods rich in fat will lead to increased weight and your cholesterol, which would negatively affect the regulation of blood sugar.
To consume alcohol in moderation. The large amount of alcohol affects blood sugar.
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Hypoglycemia Diet Plan
Fruits: 2-3 small fruit a day
Vegetables: 6 cups 3 cups raw or cooked vegetables per day
Cereals: up to 6 day depending on the values of sugar. Choose whole meal bread and wholegrain, paddy rice, pasta and wholegrain cereals, oats
Milk: 2 cups milk or yoghurt, two bowls a day low fat
Pulses: 2 times a week
Fish and seafood: two times a week
Poultry: 2 times a week
Eggs: 2-3 per week if no problem coexisting with the values of cholesterol
Red meat: a once a week or more in 10 days
Water: at least 6-8 glasses per day
Cook everything with olive oil, which will add to food to last 10min
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Saturday, October 8, 2011
Diabetes in Pregnancy
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It's important to know that diabetes is a disease that causes the body does not produce the hormone insulin-substance needed to convert carbohydrates into energy-(type 1) or do not use or generate properly (type 2) . In other words, the disease in question prevents the entry of glucose into the cells due to deficiency or defects in the key that opens the door (insulin), which causes sugar levels in the blood rise and that cellular structures suffer from hunger.
Note that the absolute or relative lack of insulin is equal to diabetes, a condition that causes the following symptoms and complications:
1) Lack of energy in cells, leading to severe fatigue and increased appetite.
2) Elevation of blood glucose, a condition that results in the elimination of sugar through the kidneys, this is done by the body by excreting urine abundant. Therefore, patients tend to lose weight and feel thirsty.
3) Damage to eyes, kidneys, nerves or heart, which usually manifests itself in the long run, especially when the disease is not controlled properly.
Now in its relation to pregnancy is necessary to review two types of diabetes:
1) Pregestational. Is one that is diagnosed before pregnancy and is characterized by causing increased frequency of fetal malformations?
2) Gestational. It appears during pregnancy at a rate of 1% to 14% of patients may persist after birth and is associated with increased maternal disorders (hypertension or high blood pressure, vaginal infections and urinary tract, preterm and caesarean section) and severe damage to the baby (fetal death or overgrowth because it is exposed to more glucose than usual-this is because it stimulates your pancreas secretes insulin that helps to abundant increase its development-which can generate damage when passing through the birth canal).
Pregnancy is a metabolic stress on the body of the mother; the baby uses their bodies for food (energy), oxygen and eliminating waste. Therefore, the patient when pregnancy is most likely a deficiency of the key (insulin) that allows sugar to enter the cell, causing it to this or aggravate diabetes.
Moreover, no less important are the various controls in the early stages of pregnancy, which include:
1) Preconception. In any diabetic woman who wants to be a mother is essential to properly program their pregnancy to reduce the risk of maternal and fetal complications. Thus, the mother will have to be assessed by the endocrinologist or gynecologists and internal medicine specialists, indicating strict dietary and insulin. However, it advised against pregnancy in women with major problems in the kidneys, retinas, severe hypertension or poorly controlled disease.
2) Gestational. It deals with the control of the diabetic woman during pregnancy and childbirth, which can be achieved through diet and insulin (for the drugs that regulate blood glucose levels are contraindicated during pregnancy) and folate (vitamin B9). Those with this type of diabetes treated with diet alone initially, later adding insulin also this substance should be administered at birth.
3) Posgestacional. The patient will be monitored after birth by adjusting the treatment of diabetes, in which there is a need to lower the dose of insulin to inject with respect to which the woman had been administered in the second half of pregnancy. No problem, just the opposite, for which breastfeeding can be established without problems. Three months after delivery, it shall be the woman with gestational diabetes oral glucose tolerance test to check if the disease has been corrected or is permanent. Finally, we recommend to the diabetic patient temporary contraceptive method (oral contraceptives, barrier methods or intrauterine devices) or final (tubal ligation, vasectomy) that is considered most appropriate.
"The pregnancies with gestational diabetes after delivery tend to normalize blood sugar levels, but that fact suggests the possibility that the disease becomes evident with advancing age or repeated similar episode in future pregnancies. Therefore, it is essential that these women do everything possible to delay the presentation of diabetes in later life through diet and exercise regimes, therefore, six weeks after delivery is necessary to evaluate the glucose levels, and if the results are Normal reassess every three years,"says the specialist.
Finally it should be emphasized that women with diabetes who become pregnant is more likely that she and the fetus complications or die. Therefore, it is suggested that the patient in this situation take a very strict control and no reason to ignore the advice of your gynecologist and endocrinologist.
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