The endocrinologist Alfonso López encourages diabetics to live with the disease and avoid their complications.
«Diabetes is a partner for a lifetime.If you treat her well, he will not give you problems;If you do it wrong, it will give them to you ».In this way, Dr. Alfonso López Alba, a specialist in endocrinology at the Álvarez-Buylla de Mieres hospital, defined yesterday the most important chronic disease in the world, encouraging diabetics and family to fight “to introduce it into the political agenda and achievea national plan similar to that existing against cancer or transplants ».
The intervention of Dr. López Alba opened the cycle dedicated to diabetes organized by the Avilés' Voice Culture Classroom, coordinated by Armando Arias and sponsored by Cofés Toscaf.On this occasion, it has the collaboration of the Association of Diabetics of the Principality of Asturias, whose president, Francisco Pérez Labajos, encouraged the diabetics to integrate and "unfold" the situation, learning to live day by day with a disease that in SpainThey suffer 5.3 million people, although more than two million do not know.
The intervention of Dr. Alfonso López Alba ranged from two poles.On the one hand, he faced his negative halo, trying to give an illusion message for patients.But this did not prevent him from remembering the importance of what he defined as an overall epidemic produced by the envelope of food in a species, the human, which for 10,000 years has hunted and collected, surviving periods of nutritional shortage and hunger.The increase in sedentary lifestyle has ended up aggravating the context.
In the United States, he recalled, 25% of the adult population is already OBESA and in Spain 13.8% of the population over 20 suffers diabetes.And there are countries with higher percentages.
An incidence that translates directly into health spending.A study in which Dr. López Alba participated in a minimum of 5,800 million euros the expense that diabetes generates to Spanish health, whose annual budget is around 60,000 million euros."It is the most conservative hypothesis, the most reasonable thing is to think that the expense is 8.2 billion euros, 15% of the health budget," he said.
But when talking about these expenses, the rapporteur did not hesitate to adjective.«From diabetes spending, 3% is in reactive strips and 15% in medicines;Most of the expense is in complications and those produced by poorly controlled diabetes ».
disease control
Alfonso López Alba influenced the need to control diabetes well so that the patient maintains their quality of life.Great efforts are not necessary, especially if the diagnosis is made in the initial phases.
Modaging food is a good route to avoid those risks.«Reducing 5% body weight is the best health measure.In a person who weighs 80 kilos, there are four.It is acceptable, ”he said, while advising exercising, such as a minimum of five thousand daily steps.He stressed that the recommendations must be customized to the fullest, taking into account the circumstances of each one.
López influenced the need to fight to "introduce diabetes in the political agenda", as a way to get a national plan against the disease and that it is well equipped to stop the progress of the ailment.
In this way, the current healthcare model could be modified, where nutrition councils are limited to a sheet that is delivered to all people equally.«A diet should not prohibit food.You have to talk to the patient and establish a strategy.I do not like the word diet, I prefer to talk about personalized nutritional advice, "he said, since the goal is that" the diet is balanced between what is eatenand what is spent ».
Did not avoid self -criticism, such as "the use of too complicated measurement systems for the person."He raised the possibility of using a person's fist size cube.A possible option would be to eat three fruit fists, two of legumes or rice or paste and two protein (fish or meat fillets) as a daily guide.