Diabetes and Sedentary Lifestyle

The number of people with type 2 diabetes has been rising rapidly since the last fifty years. In addition, more and more people have blood glucose levels, although they have not been categorized as diabetes, are too high for good health. This condition is known as glucose intolerance or pre-diabetes.

The increase in the number of people suffering type 2 diabetes around the world is mostly caused by sedentary lifestyle or a way of life that does not excel much physical activities.

In the morning after waking up, we open the faucet of water container to fill it. In the past, people had to walk for several meters to take the water in a river and bring it home in containers. After taking a bath and getting changed, we do not have to walking to paddy fields for working with hoes on our shoulders. Comfortable public transportation or our private cars will take us to our offices. Arriving at work, we do not need to climb the stairs to floor 3 or 4. By pressing buttons, the lift doors will open and the lift will take us up to our workplaces. There are no hoeing and plowing works which the traditional farmers do that we do in our workplaces. Most of us spend the whole day typing in front of the computer and answering telephone calls.

In the afternoon, when we get home, there are not many physical activities that we do. After taking a shower, most of us will sit on a sofa with a cup of sweet tea or coffee on the table. We will watch tv until dinner time. After that probably we will read books or talk to our spouses before going to bed.

These sedentary lifestyle have been going on and on for years without us realizing that our bodies are getting heavier. We are now overweight due to the lack of sports and finally our blood sugar levels reach more than 200 mg/dL when examined using Oral Glucose Tolerance Test. And at the very moment we’ve just realized that we suffer from Diabetes Type 2.

Listen, before all the above things happen, let’s change our lifestyle by being physically more active and by eating healthy foods by Charles Roring