History of Diabetes
Diabetes has been affecting lives for thousands of years and was uncommon before the twentieth century. It was recognised in manuscripts dating 1550 BCE, by Egyptians. Edward Albert Sharpey-Shafer declared that the pancreas of a diabetes patient was not able produce insulin. This was connected to riches and overeating. Physicians advanced a fasting diet consolidated with regular activity (exercise) to fight the disorder.
Dr. Frederick Allen of the Rockefeller Institute in New York published his Total Dietary Regulations in the Treatment of Diabetes in 1919 that presented a treatment of strict dieting (calories) or starvation treatment as an approach to manage diabetes.
Diabetes Today
Diabetes has become the fastest …show more content…
According to diabetes UK nearly 6 million people are living with diabetes due to the fact that they are overweight or obese.
There are two types of diabetes and the factors differ depending on the results after diagnosed. In type 1 diabetes, the factor that affects it is the genes. If there is anyone in the family, who suffers from diabetes, then there are more chances of the patient to get type 1 diabetes. This interplay with type 2 diabetes but more commonly it cause due to lifestyle and environmental factors. In type 2 diabetes overweight or obesity is the most powerful risk factors that causes the disease. 80-85% of people living with diabetes are due to obesity. Diabetes has really rise and not slowing down this is because the century and change of peoples lifestyles, eating unhealthy diets, calories dense, very little physical activity and high …show more content…
The Health Survey for England 2011 found that men in the highest quintile are 2.3 times less likely to suffer from diabetes than men in the lowest quintile of equivalised household income, and women are 1.6 lower. National Diabetes Audit proposes that individuals who are not in hardship of quintile are 1.5 times less likely to have diabetes than those who are more deprived. This is only with type 2 diabetes because is related to lifestyle choices. The research also suggests that people from South Asian and Black communities are two to four times more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than those from Caucasian backgrounds based on their genetic
Diabetes has been affecting lives for thousands of years and was uncommon before the twentieth century. It was recognised in manuscripts dating 1550 BCE, by Egyptians. Edward Albert Sharpey-Shafer declared that the pancreas of a diabetes patient was not able produce insulin. This was connected to riches and overeating. Physicians advanced a fasting diet consolidated with regular activity (exercise) to fight the disorder.
Dr. Frederick Allen of the Rockefeller Institute in New York published his Total Dietary Regulations in the Treatment of Diabetes in 1919 that presented a treatment of strict dieting (calories) or starvation treatment as an approach to manage diabetes.
Diabetes Today
Diabetes has become the fastest …show more content…
According to diabetes UK nearly 6 million people are living with diabetes due to the fact that they are overweight or obese.
There are two types of diabetes and the factors differ depending on the results after diagnosed. In type 1 diabetes, the factor that affects it is the genes. If there is anyone in the family, who suffers from diabetes, then there are more chances of the patient to get type 1 diabetes. This interplay with type 2 diabetes but more commonly it cause due to lifestyle and environmental factors. In type 2 diabetes overweight or obesity is the most powerful risk factors that causes the disease. 80-85% of people living with diabetes are due to obesity. Diabetes has really rise and not slowing down this is because the century and change of peoples lifestyles, eating unhealthy diets, calories dense, very little physical activity and high …show more content…
The Health Survey for England 2011 found that men in the highest quintile are 2.3 times less likely to suffer from diabetes than men in the lowest quintile of equivalised household income, and women are 1.6 lower. National Diabetes Audit proposes that individuals who are not in hardship of quintile are 1.5 times less likely to have diabetes than those who are more deprived. This is only with type 2 diabetes because is related to lifestyle choices. The research also suggests that people from South Asian and Black communities are two to four times more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than those from Caucasian backgrounds based on their genetic