Diabetes The Silent Killer

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Diabetes a silently killing dreaded disease-embraces in its fold millions and millions of people around the globe today and pauses a grave threat to the earth's population. It can be as deadly as cancer if not detected in time and steps are not taken to check it.

Until a few decades ago this disease attacked in- habitants of developed nations in particular and that too the affluent classes, but the modern, sedentary. High profile life style now embraced by the Third World has made the disease spread its tentacles there also. Diets full of starch, the modern manner of eating and drinking, intake of tinned foods, the preservatives used in such foods and beverages and the stress and strains that the men and the women are in modern times subject to, all these factors have contributed to the spread of the disease round the world.

The disease severely hits the body's metabolic process and the energy machinery gets badly malfunctioned. The results are dreadful. It can lead to blind- ness, paralytic stroke, kidney failure, heart attack, etc. The presence of sugar in blood leads to the growth of bacteria which affects the body's healing process. Even a small cut which normally heals in no time takes days. Or weeks at times as the disease affects the resistance of the body to fight infection and the result is the occurrence of boils, ulcers and frequent cold.

There was a time when diabetes was considered to be incurable and a fatal disease. Even today we should say the disease is not curable in toot, but it is manage. Able and controllable if proper care is taken and that, too, in time.

The common symptoms of this dreaded disease are abnormal thirst, weight loss, itching, skin infection, profuse urination, bouts of vomiting, drowsiness to unconsciousness and coma. But typical symptoms of the disease are absent in early or in minor cases, In order that our body gets going, we need energy and energy we get from the food we eat. The food, after it undergoes metabolism, gets broken down into sugar (glucose) which is absorbed in the blood and provides energy to help in carrying on our activities.

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