Next September the radio journalist and athlete Carles Aguilar will travel to the island of fomentier to run, for a maximum of 48 hours, the entire extension of the island to try to make the maximum possible number of kilometers.
He will do so with the aim of sensitizing society about the prevention, diagnosis and control of diabetes.
Although the initial idea was to start running at the moment to leave from the port of Barcelona on the ship's deck, that option has been dismissed due to structural inconveniences.
Carles Aguilar has already carried out other important sports challenges in previous years.One of them was in Soria with Templars Xtrem Trail, running 190 kilometers in 3 stages and 3,500 m of slope for mucopolysacaridosis.Another was crossing the desert of the Monegros (Huesca) for 120 kilometers for mental health or touring the entire Catalan coast from Port Bou to reach for six days and more than 400 km by cerebral palsy.
Carles Aguilar is a radio journalist of wave zero.
The current action has the collaboration of Evenia Diabetes Care, a global company dedicated to improving the lives of people with diabetes through the development of innovative solutions that set a positive difference in the daily life of people suffering from this disease.
Diabetes Association of Catalonia
All this action is channeled through the Diabetes Association of Catalonia.The objective is to sensitize the population about diabetes in all its variants through a dissemination campaign in press, radio, television and social networks and, in parallel, give visibility to the aforementioned association that works to respond to the needs of those affected andIt promotes the dissemination of this disease to prevent unwanted consequences and in many cases serious for the health of affected people.
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease characterized by sugar (glucose) levels in high blood.The glucose that circulates through the blood is called glycemia.The increase in blood glucose is the result of defects in insulin secretion, in its action or both.Insulin is a hormone that manufactures the pancreas and allows cells to use blood glucose as a source of energy.
A failure of insulin production, its action, or both, generates an increase in blood glucose levels (hyperglycemia).If not, in the long term, the continuous presence of high blood glucose in the blood can cause alterations in the function of various organs, especially eyes, kidneys, nerves, heart and blood vessels.
All actions and information related to Ohpiusa Endurance Xperience will be channeled through the web, creating different synergies between the followers of this action and the information related to diabetes.
In Spain there are currently more than 29,000 children affected by type 1 diabetes and 1,100 new cases are produced every year.On the other hand, more than 5,300,000 people suffer from type 2 diabetes and more than 2,300,000 are still diagnosed.