There are key messages that we should know, one of them is that "diabetes causes more deaths than cancer and AIDS together."“People listen to cancer or AIDS and scare.
Listen to diabetes and say 'do not eat desserts and it's over', but diabetes is more than that ”, because it causes cardiovascular complications (infarctions, arrhythmias, stroke), renal failure, blindness and damage to the nerves of the body, which leads tofeet and leg amputations.
Of the three variants (type 1, type 2 and gestational), type 2 diabetes is the most frequent (90 % of cases).Although it was called "adult diabetes", it also affects children and adolescents.
The failure of health systems in almost all countries is that they do not invest in the education of patients, but in treatments to attack the complications generated by diabetes."You cannot educate or control chronic disease in consultations of 10 minutes every three months."
The specialist Enrique Caballero directs a diabetes program for Latinos or American in the United States, at the Joslin Diabetes Center, in Boston.
He said that, according to research they have carried out, people with prediabetes who exercise, feed healthy and lose 5 % of their weight, decrease their risk of having diabetes by 58 %.
“If you have overweight you will develop diabetes, you can change the story with better food and exercises.Diabetes is a problem that begins since we are children.
You have to change habits, ”he said.