Top 5 Ways to Avoid Diabetes

Diabetes is a disease that attacks silently, but the result can be a disaster. That is why it is important for us to check their blood glucose to rise wary. 

Although until now no medicine that can cure diabetes, but actually the disease can be prevented. Health experts have found several risk factors that could cause a person suffering from a disease affecting 8.6 million people in Indonesia.
In the latest and largest study, the experts succeeded in formulating the 5 steps of prevention of diabetes. Making one of the following healthy habits known to reduce the risk of developing diabetes. If you are motivated to make three or four steps as your lifestyle, even the risk is reduced by 80 percent.
1. Maintain ideal body weight
Being overweight is a major risk factor for adult diabetes. It is important for anyone, but to be extraordinary for you who have a history of diabetes mellitus in the family.
"Having a normal weight by itself reduce the risk of developing diabetes by 60 to 70 percent," Jarad said Reis, a researcher from the U.S. Division of Cardiovascular Sciences at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
2. No Smoking In a study conducted on 200,000 people aged 50-71 years who remain healthy, nothing is ever known to be smokers or at least not smoking in the last 10 years.
3. Physically active
Regular aerobic exercise not only helps you control your weight but also make body cells more willing to accept insulin. Advised to exercise at least 5 times a week.
4. Eating correctly
This means you should eat foods that are poor in saturated fats and rich in fiber. Similarly, foods containing sugar and salt. When you have diabetes, sugar in a small amount can make blood sugar levels skyrocket.
5. Avoiding alcohol
Not only diabetes mellitus, the risk for other chronic diseases will also be reduced if you avoid drinking alcohol.