Health education, food and physical exercise are the keys to reduce the impact of diabetes, a disease that causes 2.6% of all deaths and that includes data such as that 16% of blind peopleIt is due to its incidence and seven out of ten non -traumatic amputations.
These are some of the recommendations and data that Juan Manuel Ruiz Liso, director of the Caja Rural de Soria Foundation and author of the presentation 'Diabetes and Public Health', included in the programming of the XXII month of organized healthby the aforementioned Foundation and that is dedicated to diabetes disease that causes 25,000 Spaniards to die.
Ruiz Liso, very sensitized with the growth that diabetes cases have experienced both nationally and provincial, said yesterday during his speech that "there is no anti -pharly diet," although he stressed that "the spoon improves life" and recommended consumptionof vegetables because it was synonymous with "health" and eat between "three and five pieces of fruits and vegetables per day.
The 'Alma Mater' of the Health and Healthy Soria cited several preventive actions to fight diabetes, a disease that until very recently the province of Soria presented one of the lowest mortality rates both in men and women in women, such as "maintaining a healthy weight, staying physically active, consuming a healthy diet with the Mediterranean diet as a reference, and avoiding tobacco consumption."
Ruiz Liso warned that the increase in life expectancy will increase those affected by diabetes, a disease of which only type 2 there are 2.3 million cases without diagnosing, whose incidence increases the risk of heart disease and vascular accidents and thatOver time you can damage your heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys and nerves.
The Pathology Service Chief in Soria reported that type 1 diabetes, which occurs more frequently in young children and adults, represent 13% of diabetes cases in Spain, where 1,100 cases appear every year.Those affected by type 2 rise to 5.301,314, according to Ruiz Liso, who stressed that the cases without diagnosing around 2.3 million.In addition, he stressed the cost of this disease in Spain that causes direct expenses of 5,447 million euros for treatments and hospitalizations.