Posts Tagged ‘Physical Activity’

managing-diabetesHere is a piece of information for you; about 7% of the American population is diabetic. Surprised? Well, it is a fact and with the ever-increasing number of obese people, it should not come as a surprise to you.

Mainly, there are two forms of diabetes, Type I and Type II; while Type I is more common among children, Type II is the one more common among adults and it is the result of improper diet and an unhealthy lifestyle.

This form of diabetes results when our body does not produce enough insulin. The function of insulin is to enable our cells to utilise the sugar to produce energy. However, because of insulin deficiency, our body is not able to use sugar to produce energy. The result is a rise in the level of blood sugar while our body remains deprived of energy.

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Higher Obesity1. The least level of physical activity (Child-Obesity)

Children obesity emerges one of the largest issues of medical sciences as millions of children found in obesity all around the world. A report published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood showed that merely 42% of boys and around 11% of girls are getting weekly levels of physical activity.

2. Higher obesity higher diseases

A number of children are getting involved in binge eating containing a lot of obesity diseases like high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, breath throbbing, chest pain, artery diseases and most severely is the depression including bipolar, hypo-manic, OCD, schizophrenia, etc.

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Metabolic syndrome has been considered as among the fastest growing public health problems around the world. Scientists have found that this is one of the major seminal causes for the development of ‘type 2 diabetes’, and other types of cardiovascular diseases. Various cardiovascular factors assemble to form a cluster including indulines resistance, central obesity, hypertension, and atherogenic dyslipidemia in order to be clubbed as “Metabolic Syndrome”.

Dr. James R. Churilla and Dr. Robert F. Zoeller Jr. have recently accomplished a complete review of the relationship between physical activity and metabolic syndrome. According to them there are five different definitions of ‘metabolic syndrome’ that have been considered appropriate by the medical societies. But owing to its enhanced clinical utility and result orientations, most of the current researches are based on the concept of metabolic syndrome recognized by the ‘National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP)’.

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