salaam all!
I had this idea to open a series of threads about several often occuring
diseases.
I’ve seen that among desis sometimes even the basic knowledge is lacking
about very serious diseases. I want to use this space to just increase
the awareness of these things without making things too complicated or
specific.
let me tell beforehand: these threads will not be about difficult
diagnoses and complicated treatments of the diseases! for that I
refer u to specialistic handbooks.
instead, I want to use these threads to approach the topics from a
broader perspective.
I want to discuss the riskfactors of the diseases (without going into
the deep underlying mechanism), the prevention and the complications.
in other words, i want to discuss the societal/personal impact of
these diseases.
Also, it would be nice if you people can share experiences
you have with ppl suffering from these diseases, maybe someone u know or
family?
for this week I’ve chosed diabetes!
as you might know, there are two major types of diabetes; I want to
discuss diabetes type II, which often affects elderly.
I’m sure all of you will have someone in their neighbourhood suffering
from it.
the riskfactors: most importantly: overweight!!! overweight!!
overweight!!
also, body exercise, unhealthy diet, family history.
as you also might have noticed, diabetics are often obese! this is the
major factor of concern, not only in treatment but also in larg-scale
prevention!!!
if you want to prevent diabetes, make sure u aren’t obese!!!
but often ppl fail to lose weight: it doesn’t matter, as long as you can
keep up the daily exercise it’s good!
minimum of 30 mins per day (not necessarily continuous) is the
recommended time one should spent on exercise :k:
the complications are most importantly heart attack!!!
the most feared complication is a heart attack/infarction!
this can be prevented by healthy diet, lose weight, good insulin-use.
other complications include blindness, kidney failure, leg ulcera which
might lead to amputation.
what I’ve seen among desis is that for a long time, people don’t pay
attention to their diseases. All they say is that they have ‘sugar’ but
still continue their unhealthy behaviours.
often when they are using pills, they see it as their treatment. But
what they forget is that the pills are just a supportive thing…the
real ‘treatment’ should come from them: namely diet, weight loss,
exercise!
often this isn’t realized and when they have to start using/injecting
insulin (which actually also means that the disease cannot be cured
now), that’s when they see that something went wrong, and that they
could have prevented.
that’s enough from me; it would be nice to hear from you people, how
people close to u have experienced diabetes, what u feel etc etc
it would be nice to share experiences 
