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Why is the Chinese people prone to diabetes

In addition to the world, Nauru and the Indians, we Chinese people seem most likely to have diabetes.

Nauru nine out of ten people fat, 30% of people have diabetes, is the highest in the world. Africa and Mauritius prevalence of diabetes in the Chinese up to 20%. Statistics show that diabetes in American Indians and the Chinese more than twice the rate of whites. The Nauru people, Indians and Chinese have a common characteristic: diet with high carbohydrate (sugar and starch) as the main. Nauru people like to eat sticky rice, drinking cola; we Chinese people today eat potatoes and corn, that is, coming from the Indians there.

However, if using natural carbohydrate diet or a coarse whole-wheat-based, diabetes, and will not be a major outbreak. The glycemic index of coarse grains whole grains are not too high, and nutrient rich. The real killer is the refined carbohydrates, such as sugar, flour and rice. Nauru in the past without diabetes, but in the end of World War II, the introduction of Coca-Cola and other junk food in less than two decades, a large-scale outbreak of diabetes, the incidence rate was as high as 60%. American Indians in the past basically no diabetes, but a large number of high-carbon high-sugar junk food consumption, the diabetes Ruqierzhi. China’s reform and opening up since the 1980s, starch processing increasingly sophisticated, and the introduction of high-sugar junk foods and packaged drinks, to the endless diabetes 2000s.

Twenty years ago, Chinese people almost no obesity and diabetes, and why today’s rapidly flooded? Do our genes have changed? Is not possible, a species of genes can not be a fundamental change in a few decades! Is a way of life has changed. In fact, obesity and diabetes are largely lifestyle diseases, mainly diet disease!

Why did your mother have (type 2) diabetes, have diabetes, you can easily do? Is because of your diet is similar to what she ate, give what you eat, eat out! Scientists have discovered that as long as for rodents to eat enough sugar, it will get diabetes. Therefore, each of us as long as the excessive intake of refined sugar and starch, a decade or two after they get their diabetes; This phenomenon is called “Jean-wai 20-year rule.”

First Military Medical University, according to estimates, China now there are at least more than 40 million diabetics in the world among the highest. Ministry of Health and Chinese Medical Association estimates that there are about 100 million Chinese people are not normal blood sugar. In which pre-diabetes (impaired glucose tolerance) is about 60 million people is about 10% of them each year, or six million people, is converted to diabetes. Therefore, China’s new diabetes more than 16,000 a day, and more and more younger.

Mainland China and Hong Kong’s report found that the Chinese people pre-diabetes into diabetes risk groups highest in the world, up to 10%, is the world’s average (5%) twice as high.

China’s major cities have a diabetes prevalence rate (such as Shanghai 10%) has surpassed the United States (6.3%). The next two decades, China’s diabetes will quickly spread to cities and towns, and finally to large-scale spread of the vast rural areas. Without intervention, in 2025 incidence of diabetes in China as a whole will be as high as 20%, diabetes mellitus may be increased to 300 million total population.

China less than one out of every three people with diabetes know they have diabetes. If you got diagnosed with diabetes, first of all you are not alone, then you do not have to panic. U.S. scientists have recently discovered that a fresh dew card nutrition therapy can make your life as like normal.

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