arteries – and for all intents and purposes, it’s best to consider diabetes a disease in which both large and small arteries get progressively more damaged – so that the risks of ending with blindness, ED, amputations, etc start going up way, way before there is a measurable change in blood glucose levels.
.....In other words, if you are overweight for any substantial period of time, especially if you are carrying that excess baggage mostly around the middle (as most of us do), then you are likely on the road to some of the diabetes-linked complications, even if your blood glucose level is still normal.
.....As the song goes, nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide, if you’re fat (well, that’s not exactly how the song goes, but it’s close).
.....Also, it’s important to bear in mind that the complications I referred to earlier is only a partial list of the more prominent problems that are associated with diabetes.
.....For example, diabetes also significantly raises the chances of developing serious life-threatening infections as well as chronic pain (diabetes also destroys nerves), and also ending up with what doctors in typical jargon call “disability of daily living”, a term that means that you can’t wash yourself, you can’t go down stairs unaided, you can’t go to the store or the library or the doctor’s office on your own, you can’t do any of the things that for most of us make life meaningful.
.....This is not a light column, I know, but this is a very serious issue, and the thing is: the solution is mostly in your hands.
.....Do something about it.
.....Otherwise, those poor bureaucrats will get even less sleep, and hey! You wouldn’t want that to happen now would you.
.....Actually, don’t answer that, but just do something anyways.
Dr. Art Hister can be heard on CKNW and other Corus Radio Network stations on House Calls on Saturdays at 10 AM, as well as seen on Global TV news on Saturday mornings at 9:20. |
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