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Eating Healthy And Its Affect On People With Diabetes

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Imagine a time when being thin was not a race and eating a healthy diet was something that we all did as a habit. American’s have gotten so caught up in looking the way the models in Hollywood look that we have developed horrible eating habits. The fact that we eat most of time out of stress is proof enough that we are trying to bear too much weight on their shoulders. When applying a healthy diet and regular exercise, a person with diabetes can greatly reduce the long term health issues that are common with the disease.

Eating healthy greatly decreases the risk of developing life threatening conditions. When we eat a high fat diet the fat that we take in can cause such conditions like heart disease, colon cancer, heart attacks and even strokes. The high fat diets cause the visceral fat to build up in our body and that type of fat is like a toxin to our vital organs. Eating diets that include foods that have a fat content of 7g or more is unhealthy. These foods include, fried food, food high in sugar, canned vegetables, and foods that are cooked in butter and salt. The United States is the leading country for obesity. We have the highest rate of colorectal cancer in the world; colorectal cancer is the fourth most common form of cancer in men and women. This type of cancer is more common in people over the age of fifty, and you can get this type of cancer by eating a high fat
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diet, and family history. (Mediline Plus – updated June 12, 2008, www. nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/colorectalcancer.html) It is so important for us to devise a plan to greatly change the way we eat and what we feed our children.
Being overweight greatly increases the chance for a person to develop diabetes later in life. Physicians are diagnosing diabetes at an alarming rate, and ironically enough those same people are clinically overweight. 20.8 million People in the US have Diabetes that is...