Birthday of World Health Organization – Call to Action Against Diabetes

7 April 2016, GENEVA - Thursday is the birthday of WHO (World Health Organization)and on this occasion WHO presents call to action against diabetes. The report warned that the diabetes cases have risen to 422 million in 2014 from 108 million in 1980, 314 million more. It’s rising throughout the world but greater part is in developed countries.

There are so many diabetes risk factors as following: 

• Obesity 
• Overweight 
• Age Factor 
• Family History 
• Diseases in pancreas 
• Unhealthy eating 
• Lack of physical exercise 
• High blood pressure 
• Impaired glucose tolerance 
• Lack of nutrition during pregnancy 
• Polycystic ovary syndrome 

If diabetes goes over the control, other diseases risk can be raised like blindness, kidney failure, and heart diseases. It could be preventable, if it is in initial stage. Global health experts say more needs to be done to make sure all communities have access to affordable, healthy food, and they encourage healthy eating and exercise. 

Factors driving this dramatic rise include overweight and obesity, according to a major new report by World Health Organization (WHO) released ahead of the World Health Day. The report warned that the diabetes cases have risen to 422 million in 2014 from 108 million in 1980, 314 million more. "If we are to make any headway in halting the rise in diabetes, we need to rethink our daily lives: to eat healthily, be physically active, and avoid excessive weight gain," said Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General.
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Do You Know: What is Diabetes and How Many Types of It?

When we take food, our body transforms it in glucose or sugars. This glucose enters in our cells with the help of insulin, which are released by pancreas.

Diabetes occurs when pancreas doesn’t release enough insulin to help glucose to enter in our body cells. Because short of insulin, amount of glucose increases too high in our blood.

Our body doesn’t make proper use of glucose and our body energy level reduces day by day. Insulin plays a key role to open body cells to enter glucose and convert to energy. In diabetes pancreas doesn’t work properly to produce insulin.

Due to going these things wrong, our body’s glucose level increase, but energy level decrease.

We can Categories Diabetes in 2 Types:

Type 1: In this condition, pancreas doesn’t release insulin to open cells to enter glucose and our blood glucose level goes too high due to it.

Type 2: In this condition pancreas not release enough insulin to open cells and produced insulin do not work properly to open body cells to enter glucose. We can’t make proper use of glucose to generate energy.

How much severe the effects of stress can be

There are numerous effects of stress on the body and they can be drastic if you have long-term stress. Excess stress can reduce your capability to function in life. You should cure your stress before it becomes severe. In this article we will tell you that how much severe the effects of stress can be.

Sexual problems: Long-lasting stress can lead to loss of libido, or even short-term impotence in men. In women incapability to enjoy orgasm, reduced fertility, higher chances of miscarriage, and irregular periods are common.

Aging: Constant and excess stress may cause loss in neural and hormonal balance. This imbalance will cause increased oxidative damage accelerating aging in our body. That's because, persistent disturbances in body homeostasis ultimately affect our hormone secreting glands, cell repair and collagen in our skin and connecting tissues. Immune and neural degenerative diseases prevent this otherwise inevitable process from following the normal and healthy course of events. New researches confirm that long-term exposure to adrenal stress hormones may enhance brain aging in future.

Researchers tell the level of hormone released apparently affects the total volume of the brain's hippocampus—a major source of recall and memory function, in later life. They found those with high levels of hormone release, had a hippocampus volume 14 per cent less than those with lower levels. Their studies prove that continuous stress may accelerate hippocampal weakening leading to accelerated physical and brain aging.

Gastric problems: Stress is usually associated with peptic ulcer that is caused by bacteria or by the excessive intake of specific medicines like aspirin and ibuprofen. Some studies show that stress increases the risk of ulcers or prolongs the treatment of an existing ulcer.

Eating problems: Stress is often related to weight gain and obesity. When people are stressed they develop a desire towards salt and sugar and end up eating fatty and starchy foods to combat stress. Stressed people may also suffer a loss of hunger and loss of weight. In rare cases, chronic stress triggers hyperactivity of thyroid gland, and this causes the body to burn up calories at a rapid rate.

Health problems: You should keep stress away from your body; if you would not do so then several problems such as ulcers, obesity, heart disease, headaches, nausea, rashes, high blood pressure, cancer, depression, anorexia, diabetes, hyperthyroidism and sexual abuse may capture you anytime.