Bad Lifestyle Trigger Diabetes

Approximately 80 per cent prevalence of diabetes mellitus is type two. This shows that lifestyle is not healthy to be the main triggers of the disease increased. Diabetes is the second largest cause of death in urban areas. This was revealed in a one-day seminar held on Diabetes Health Department, Thursday (5 / 11).
The UN World Health Organization set November 14 as World Diabetes Day. The theme this year is the warning Understand and Control Diabetes. Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease caused by the inability of the body to produce the hormone insulin or because of ineffective use of insulin production. It is characterized by high levels of sugar in the blood.
Type two diabetes is generally associated genetic or descendants who are also affected and triggered risk factors such as diet, lack of activity, smoking, drinking alcohol, obesity, hypertension, hyperglycemia, hiperkolesterol.
In his speech, Director General of Disease Control and Environmental Health revealed Tjandra Yoga Aditama, bad lifestyle is reflected in the Basic Health Research (Riskesdas) in 2007, the prevalence of eating less fruit and vegetables by 93.6 percent, less physical activity in older people over 10 years by 48.2 percent, the prevalence of smoking every day for people over 10 years of 23.7 percent, and consumption of alcohol in a 4.6 per cent last month.
The same research shows, diabetes mellitus ranked second as a cause of death in the group 45-54 years in urban areas. Meanwhile, in the countryside, diabetes mellitus deng ranked sixth of the number of proportion of deaths by 5.8 percent.
Source: KOMPAS.com