My dad had diabetes.

The family was both surprised and sad, and the surprise was that my father only had diabetes, as long as he took care of it a little carefully, the disease was not dangerous, and it was a blessing in misfortune. Sadly, once this disease is acquired, on the one hand, it cannot be completely cured at present, and on the other hand, it will be slightly avoided in the future.

Especially Zhou Fangyuan's father still likes to eat moon cakes, the traditional moon cakes in the north have no puff pastry and few fillings, it is a whole cake, but it is very oily and sweet, and occasionally a little five kernels will be added to it, but it is very delicious.

Many people may only occasionally buy mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but Zhou Fangyuan's father is different, since 20 years ago, he began to eat mooncakes every morning, 365 days a year, at least half of the time, Zhou's father spent his breakfast in eating mooncakes. Now that I have diabetes, yes, don't think about moon cakes, this thing is really too big oil and too much sugar, diabetics don't say they can't eat it at all, but I'm afraid they can only eat a little bit, and it's not addictive at all.

In the past, my family was poor and couldn't afford to eat any good things. Now that I have money, I have such a sick problem, and I have to pick up food to eat, and I will be depressed if I change it.

But who is to blame?

The doctor asked Zhou's father about his diet in the recent period of time, and probably knew the cause of his illness.

In fact, the cause of diabetes is very complicated, but the old Zhou family has no history of diabetes, at least it is definitely not acquired through genetics, so type I diabetes can be ruled out.

There are many causes of type II diabetes, eating is only one aspect, endocrine disorders, obesity, and impaired pancreatic islet function may cause diabetes, and Zhou's father is basically two reasons.

On the one hand, it is because of endocrine disorders, after all, when you are older, you must not be able to compare with when you were young, plus you exercise less, and the sugar in your body accumulates for a long time, which is one of the reasons. Second, he has been going fishing a lot recently, and the one who fishes with him is a business partner he met a few years ago, Zhou Fangyuan has also seen it, surnamed Zhang, but he rarely has contact. However, Zhou's father often goes out fishing with this person, and this person especially likes to drink drinks, but not carbonated drinks, but fruit juice drinks. The sugar content of fruit juice drinks is not small, and this person always has several pieces in the trunk of his car, and he takes them out to share with others at every turn.

Dad Zhou is a recent time, and he often drinks drinks. And as the blood sugar level in the body gets higher and higher, I don't know if I feel that after diabetes, I feel thirsty every day, and I drink more drinks when I go fishing. The result is a vicious circle, and eventually ketones appear in the body, and the whole body is uncomfortable.

Knowing the reason, my mother angrily hit my father's arm several times.

"I told you to drink more water and drink more water, people who are dozens of years old, how can they not make people worry!"

Dad was speechless, he was already wrong anyway, what's the use of explaining at this time?

Besides, it's really his own problem. Other people's drinks are in their own stomachs, and if they give it to you, you will drink it, and if you don't control it, who can blame you?

Fortunately, as long as the disease itself does not cause complications or hypoglycemia, it is basically not harmful. And the doctors have said that if you exercise more, control your diet, and recuperate well, you just need to drink medicine, and you don't even need to take injections, which is lucky enough.

Zhou Fangyuan's second aunt has diabetes, and the old man has a lesion in his right leg because of diabetes, how many years have it been, because he can't exercise, not only is the restriction on eating super strict, but he also has to take insulin often.

Zhou Fangyuan had seen it several times, and he felt his belly twitch when he saw the pillow often stuck into his stomach. Dad didn't need to get an injection, which wasn't lucky enough.

This incident also sounded the alarm for Zhou Fangyuan.

He has been a little more relaxed about eating recently, and before he was reborn in his previous life, the result of his last physical examination was that his blood sugar level was high.

At that time, he was a big fat man, and he didn't move every day, and he especially liked to drink happy water, so the results were obvious.

After being reborn, especially in the first few years of rebirth, he was very strict with his diet, and in order to enjoy food for a long time in the future, he has always controlled his diet very well. Recently, I have unconsciously let go of it, but he is no longer in a problem, but his father has a problem.

This alerted him to the need to regain control of his diet.

It's not just him, in fact, everyone should control their diet.

Modern people are different from ancient people, no, ancient people are a little far away, let's just say that twenty years ago, the diet structure was very different.

Twenty years ago, the domestic standard of living was not very good, the common people lacked oil and water in their stomachs every day, and they had to do a lot of work every day, it didn't matter if they ate more, they could digest it anyway.

But today's Chinese people, the standard of living is getting higher and higher, and in terms of work, there are fewer and fewer heavy coolies, and the excessive nutrients accumulated in the body are easy to make people fat. If it's someone who likes to go to the gym to work out, that's fine. But if you are an ordinary white-collar worker, or an otaku? If you don't exercise regularly, as long as you eat a little more food with high sugar content, the blood sugar level in your body will definitely not be low.

It's not a big question, but it's not too small.

In fact, the younger age of diabetes has begun to show signs of danger.

Judging from domestic data, diabetes is no longer the "patent" of middle-aged and elderly people, and it is showing a trend of younger age.

Zhou Fangyuan had seen a post on the Internet before, about a little girl who had just entered her second year of college.

This little girl usually looks quite healthy, but one day her roommate called her to eat, but found that she was in a coma, so she quickly dialed 120. When I came to the hospital for a check-up, I found that her blood sugar was frighteningly high. It stands to reason that this is unlikely to happen to such a young child, so the doctor asked her in detail about her diet and lifestyle habits. Only then did she know that she likes to drink milk tea very much, almost reaching the habit of one cup or even two cups a day, and the sugar content in milk tea is often very high, which inevitably leads to high blood sugar.

This is the most obvious example.

So it's not that young people don't need to pay attention to blood sugar problems, in fact, young people also need to pay more attention, and some things should be done less.

For example, snacking.

Snacking before bed is not a good habit for anyone, on the one hand, it is harmful to oral health, and on the other hand, it can increase the burden on the stomach. If some snacks are difficult to digest and accumulate in the body, it is possible for people to develop diabetes. Therefore, everyone must pay attention to the fact that snacks should be eaten during the day, and at night before going to bed, don't touch them again.

Another example is smoking.

Smoking is bad for your health, and this has been said many times, but patients often take it as a deaf ear or use it as an excuse that they can't quit. In fact, it still depends on whether your willpower is tenacious enough, or whether you really have the will to quit smoking. I have to say that smoking is really harmful to the human body, taking the more serious lung cancer as an example, the incidence of smokers is many times higher than that of ordinary people. Coming back to the question of diabetes, if a person smokes before going to bed for a long time, it is possible to cause diabetes. Because of the nicotine, carbon monoxide and other substances contained in cigarettes, it is very likely that insulin sensitivity will be reduced, and then cause diabetes.

The last important point is to drink drinks.

Just like the sophomore girl above, we usually have to drink less milk tea, and the same is true for drinks, especially before going to bed, don't touch it. If you really want to drink before going to bed, you can drink some warm water, which is helpful for sleep. But drinks are different, they often contain sweetness, which will not only bring a burden to various organs of the body, but also make people gain weight once the sugar precipitates, and is likely to induce diabetes.

And don't think that sugar-free drinks are fine.

At this time in 06, there were not many sugar-free drinks, and in the years before Zhou Fangyuan's rebirth, carbonated sparkling water, sugar-free milk tea, carbonated drinks, tea drinks, etc., with the signboard of "0 sugar, 0 fat and 0 calories", became more and more popular among consumers

。 But in fact, is sugar-free really sugar-free?

Zhou Fangyuan has seen relevant reports, saying that a 22-year-old young man in Zhejiang Province drank 5-6 bottles of sugar-free drinks every day, and as a result, he developed diabetic ketoacidosis and was rushed to the hospital.

Diabetic ketoacidosis is an acute and serious complication of diabetes, which is more common in severe diabetes mellitus and is often induced by infection, starvation, and improper treatment. However, the cause of the patient's onset was due to the consumption of a large amount of "sugar-free drinks".

In fact, in terms of the risk of causing type 2 diabetes and obesity, sugar-free drinks and traditional drinks are almost the same harm, don't listen to "sugar-free" and fall into the "consumption trap".

Although sweetener is "sugar reduction does not reduce sweetness", but sugar-free is not the absolute meaning of zero sugar, a bottle of sparkling water marked as sugar-free, why can it be so sweet? The so-called sugar substitute products generally refer to some food additives that can provide sweetness, and low calorie or 0 calories, so although the intake of sugar substitutes provides sweetness, but does not cause human body fat and blood sugar changes, it is a series of food additives approved by various countries around the world for safe consumption, and among them, natural sweeteners and sugar alcohols are loved by consumers.

The so-called "sugar-free drinks" simply use sweeteners such as stevia to replace the sugar in traditional drinks, giving people the illusion of health.

The sugar substitutes used in different drinks are not the same, for example, Coke Zero mainly uses aspartame, and some brands of sparkling water recipe lists, the main sweeteners are sucralose, erythritol, etc.

The Journal of Clinical Nutrition published a report in which scientists conducted a 14-year study of 66,118 women, and the results showed that long-term intake of beverages containing artificial sweeteners is more likely to induce obesity and type 2 diabetes. A study published in the British Medical Journal showed that people who used sweeteners instead of sugar did not change significantly in weight compared to those who consumed sugar normally.

In fact, 'sugar-free' is not zero sugar in the absolute sense.

According to the General Principles for Nutrition Labeling of Prepackaged Foods of the National Food Safety Standard (GB 28050-2011), every 100ml of beverage contains ≤ 0.5g of sugar, which can be labeled as a sugar-free beverage. If a 500ml bottle of sugar-free drink contains 2.5g of sugar, drinking a few more bottles is still harmful.

Sweeteners do provide a diverse choice of "sugar reduction, not sweetening" for groups with sugar reduction needs.

But if you count on sweeteners to lose weight, and do not consciously change your already unhealthy diet and lifestyle, and feel that "drinking sugar-free drinks is not afraid of getting fat", but let go of self-overeating, you will get fat faster, and you can only control your weight by abiding by the most basic "conservation of energy", and eating less and exercising more is the truly effective way to lose weight.

No sugar, it's just self-deception.

In addition, the sweeteners in sugar-free drinks can increase people's appetite and cravings for sweets. Since artificial sweeteners are dozens or even hundreds of times sweeter than conventional sucrose, this sweetness is incomparable to daily vegetables and fruits. When these sweeteners are consumed, people will become less interested in fruits and vegetables that contain natural sweetness, and will choose more foods with artificial sweeteners or processed foods, forming a vicious circle.

In conclusion, eating more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains can reduce the risk of type II diabetes. The findings suggest that even a modest increase in the intake of these foods as part of a healthy diet can help prevent type 2 diabetes. For every 66 grams of total fruit and vegetable intake, the risk of developing type 2 diabetes is reduced by 25%. Whole grain foods are widely considered healthy foods due to their high levels of fiber, antioxidants, and phytochemicals. Human trials have shown that diets rich in whole grains have the potential to reduce fat mass, increase resting metabolic rate, promote energy balance, increase insulin sensitivity, improve lipid profile, and reduce systemic inflammation.

Epidemiological studies have shown a negative association between the consumption of whole grains and the risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity and certain types of cancer.

The study was based on 158259 healthy women and 36,525 healthy men who were free of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, all of whom participated in the Nurses' Health Study, Nurses' Health Study II, and Health Professionals Follow-up Study cohorts. After adjusting for the effects of lifestyle and dietary risk factors on diabetes, those with the highest intake of whole grains were 29% less likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those with the lowest.

For individual whole grain foods, the researchers found that consuming one (or more) servings of whole grain cold breakfast cereal or brown bread per day was associated with a 19% and 21% lower risk of type 2 diabetes, respectively, compared to not consuming any whole grain foods for a month.

For other whole grain foods with a low average intake, eating two or more servings per week reduced the risk of eating oatmeal by 21 percent, gluten added foods by 15 percent, and brown rice and wheat germ by 12 percent compared to eating less than one serving a month.

Therefore, adjusting the diet structure is definitely one of the best ways to prevent diabetes, and for those who are already sick, such a diet can also help them effectively control their blood sugar levels, without making their blood sugar go up and down.

Dad's illness this time sounded the alarm for Zhou Fangyuan, not only himself, but also several elderly people in the family paid more attention.

On the one hand, they often come for physical examinations, but they can't wait for the illness to come back, and secondly, there must be a special dietitian at home, and they haven't paid attention to this before; in fact, the real wealthy family, which one does not have a special nutritionist and private doctor? After all, this is all related to physical health, and young people are strong, so they can be a little presumptuous, but what about the elderly? Careful will inevitably get sick, no matter how much attention is paid to it, it is not too much.