Diabetes + Obesity= Diabesity

It's well-known since a long time that the obesity and the overweight are diseases that cause the type 2 diabetes, in fact the cases of type 2 diabetes are increased with the increment of the obesity and of the overweight and for that the UE (European Union) has coined a new word to describe the straight relation between two diseases: “diabesity”.

The american scientist J. Freidman (molecular geneticist) has discovered a hormone – the leptina – which, produced from adipose tissue, it would pass to the brain the hunger sensation and the gene's mutation of the obesity would provoke an insatiable hunger carrying to the overweight.

So, the obesity is not caused only from our life style and the unhealthy eating habits, but also from our genes.

The obesity does not depend on the amount of the weight of the body but the amount of the fat of the body and specifically from the adipose tissue.

The recent accomplished studies revealed that the obese children for the excessive fat storage in the abdominal area have a reduction of insulin efficiency which the body needs to convert the glucose in energy, with the result that the pancreas works producing insulin more and more and at the end it can be exhausted causing the diabetes a disease that according to the expectations will reach epidemic proportions.

This shows that there's a close tie between the two diseases that goes of equal step, in fact the 80% of the diabetics are overweight, the factors that are in common the obesity with the type 2 diabetes are:

• sedentary life;


• abundant food choice;


• unhealthy eating habits.
  

The diabetes can cause cardiovascular troubles as:

1. heart attack;


2. ictus;


3. renal insufficiency;


4. arteriopathy:


5. infections.

The bad news:

there's no way to healing from diabetes.
But the cures of this disease in last years are much improved because it's understood that is better to act from the first phase reducing the damages.

If before it was aimed to temporize now at the first signs begins an instant targeted cure, so acting first and also in customized way, considering more factors like pressure values or cholesterol levels with the purpose to choose the right cure.

The good news:

if the available therapies are followed up with constance it's possible leading a regular life.
The therapy's target is keeping the glycaemia to the “normal level”.

When to a child is diagnosed the type 2 diabetes he must be taught to monitor the disease, like measuring the glycaemia, the kind of physical activity and the diet that he must follow up.

If the child during the diagnosis is in good health, he'll be submitted to a program of physical exercises, but otherwise it'll be necessary giving up the insulin administration.

Keeping under control:

• the eyes;


• kidneys;


• the blood pressure.

The principal ingredients for the successful healthy life are: “WEIGHT FORM, BALANCED DIET AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY”.

Celiac - Discover the link with the obesity

Against the common believe, it's seems that there's a connection between the obesity and the celiac, even if today the scientific researchers are trying to find some confirms.

Most probably the causes that link these two diseases are:

- genetic predisposition;

- the malabsorption syndrome that cause a desire of the food, despite having absorbed enough calories. When the caloric amount is excessive the need of continuous eating, carrying the main fat through the body, so the pancreas's activity is reduced damaging the capacity of the cells to burn the fat stored provoking the weight's increase.

Definition:

the celiac is much diffused disease, but still very little known because of the insufficient information's campaign about this issue, a digestive disease of genetic origin that provokes the malabsorption of the food, is caused from chronic inflammation of the tenuous intestine due to the immunity reaction triggered from a mix of proteins – gliadins – contained in the “gluten”, protein that is founds in the grain and cereals.

When it appears.

in pediatric age with the following symptoms:

1. weight loss;


2. diarrhoea;


3. low growth;


4. anaemia;


5. herpetiforme dermatitis.

It can show itself also in adult age, in some cases the patient doesn't introduce any symptoms, for this reason it's known of:

Silent celiac:

there are alterations in the patients intestinal mucosa, but the subjects doesn't show the symptoms, because it's interested only one part of the tenuous intestine, but the remaining works regularly. But it's possible that increasing the doses of “gluten” present in the feeding, they trigger the symptoms.

Latent celiac:

the patient shows the genetic sensibility to the disturb but doesn't have neither the intestinal mucosa damaged nor the symptoms.
But it's possible that increasing the assumed doses of “gluten” with the feeding, because an important event, like a surgery intervention, pregnancy or childbirth, they trigger the symptoms.

Diagnosis:

a child who doesn't grow must be submitted to a pediatric visit and must have a test verifying the existence of the malabsorption syndrome.
Blood exams revealing the responsible antibody presence of the disease.
For a confirm of the diagnosis it's necessary to resort the intestinal biopsy and to state the damages provoked by the gluten to the intestinal mucosa.

If the child is too little it's necessary repeating the exam after 6 months of gluten-free diet and after others 6 months of diet containing the gluten.
All this to establish that the damages to the intestinal mucosa is provoked from the gluten.

The treatment:

despite this is a disease much diffused that it can have serious consequences for the child's and adult's health, actually is possible to cure it just with a gluten-free diet for lifetime.

Warning:

during the cooking of the meals, avoid accurately, to use the same cutlery stirring food for the family and the celiac subject, because you could contaminate the food of the patient rendering the gluten-free diet inefficient.

If the gluten free diet is not followed exactly it risks to develop the following diseases:

• low height (most of all when the disease is developed in childhood age and so the malabsorption syndrome provokes denutrition);


• abdominal pains;


• delay of development puberal;


• liver's diseases;


• intestinal cancer (intestinal linphom, adenocarcinoma);


• osteoporosis (provoked from a malabsorption of the calcium);


• epileptic convulsions (caused from a deficiency of folic acid);


• type 2 diabetes (youth insulin-dependent).
  

Advices:

try to get, through the celiac associations, the “manual” to carry always with you, a products's list of which the industries warranty the absolute absence of gluten.
Who says that the celiacs are forced to deprive themselves of the pleasures of the tables?
The problem, following a gluten-free diet, can be afforded with much serenity without renouncing to the taste and the social life.
No to gluten, yes to the eating pleasures!!!