Be cautious of high blood sugar

Author: Hideki Ito
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Publish Date: 2005-04-11
Features: By reading this book, you will learn the following medical knowledge: What changes occur in your body after blood sugar rises; dietary therapy for blood sugar control; the key points of these dietary therapies; exercise and medication therapies for blood sugar control; what diabetics should pay attention to in daily life, etc. The number of people found to have elevated blood sugar levels is increasing. When it comes to diseases caused by high blood sugar, diabetes is the first condition that comes to mind. In Japan, there are already 6.9 million diabetes patients, and if "reserves" (pre-diabetes) are included, it is estimated that there will be 13.7 million people with high blood sugar. High blood sugar has become a modern lifestyle disease. In this severe situation, diabetes treatment methods are also advancing rapidly, especially in recent years, with groundbreaking progress. Therefore, diabetes, which was once feared and called "shortened life," now rarely results in death due to the disease, and diabetes is no longer a disease that affects patients' long-term survival. However, cases where diabetes complications threaten daily life and directly face death risks are increasing as the number of patients rises and long-term survival cases grow. Now, the treatment goal for diabetes is: avoiding complications; if complications exist, preventing further deterioration; minimizing the symptoms of complications; and living a complete life, including in old age, with joy. On the other hand, it has recently been confirmed that the so-called "reserves" (pre-diabetes) not only carry the risk of developing diabetes but can also cause atherosclerosis on their own. Diabetes and its pre-diabetes are both diseases that develop against a genetic background and are triggered by unhealthy lifestyles. Therefore, the fundamental principle of treatment should be to improve lifestyle (mainly diet and exercise). This means that patients' self-management directly affects the success or failure of treatment. Every time I see the of patients who have been strictly managing their lives and controlling their blood sugar, a sense of respect for them naturally arises. This book is based on such feelings and is written in a way that is as easy to understand as possible for every diabetes and "reserve" (pre-diabetes) patient, summarizing the tricks for each patient to practice or self-manage. If this book can be of help to patients suffering from high blood sugar in living a joyful life from now on, I will feel extremely honored.