In most mammals, including humans, the perception and the appreciation of sweet taste (as opposed to other tastes: salty, bitter, spicy, etc.) is an innate capacity. It depends on receptors located on the tongue. The stimulation of these receptors by sweet-tasting foods or beverages generates a sensation that most of us find intensely pleasurable. Nothing wrong with that, except that…
While type 2 diabetes is more commonly a middle-aged people’s disease, hence its former name of “adult-onset diabetes” our poor eating habits and out-of-control sweet tooth mean that nowadays younger people, and sometimes even teenagers or children, are now diagnosed with it.
The antioxidant flavonoids in green tea increase our body’s sensitivity to insulin, which makes this beverage a potent ally for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes sufferers.
Close to 90 million American people suffer from prediabetes, and 70% of those shall sooner or later develop Type 2 diabetes… And while this pandemic is undoubtedly linked to modern Western lifestyle habits, it nevertheless affects most countries nowadays. Indeed, if nothing changes, within 20 years Type 2 diabetes will most certainly rank first among human diseases (according to the…
Type 2 diabetes is an incurable disease, and when left untreated, often leads to dire and severely incapacitating complications. There are several types of complications: Arterial complications: Macro-vascular disease (macro-angiopathy) hits the coronary arteries with a risk of myocardial infarction, the brain arteries with a risk of stroke and the arteries of the leg with a risk of obliterating arteritis.…
As type II diabetes is a silent disease and it sometimes remains asymptomatic for years, it is too often diagnosed during a routine check-up, when it has already begun its destructive work: 10 to 29% patients already suffer from retinopathy, 10 to 37% display early stage kidney disease and 14% ischemic coronary complications… This stresses the importance of monitoring our…
Type 2 diabetes is a silent killer as it may remain asymptomatic for a long time. A large percentage of at-risk people have never had a glycemia test and therefore don’t know whether their blood sugar is normal or whether they display symptoms of prediabetes or even of full-fledged type 2 diabetes. This means that this type of diabetes is often diagnosed much too…
Type 2 diabetes appeared in the beginning of the 20th century, when sugar ceased being a rare commodity to grace every kitchen table. Our body was used to making glucose from every food, and he continued without taking into account our new sugar intake. The normal metabolic circuit implies the breaking down of dietary proteins, lipids and complex carbohydrates into simple…
The average life expectancy of a 40 year-old American male with untreated type II diabetes is 11.6 years shorter than that of his healthy counterpart; for females this shortening amounts to 14.3 years.
