What Is Metabolic Syndrome And How Is It Cured?
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Metabolic Syndrome occurs when the three health issues of .high blood pressure, obesity, and unhealthy lipid levels, exist together. When an individual has all three of these conditions existing together, that individual’s risk of heart disease, a heart attack, and stroke is increasingly higher.
Metabolic syndrome is partially avoidable
If the primary factors that contribute to the condition can be eliminated or sufficiently lessened. Those factors being: inactivity, overeating that leads to weight gain, and insulin resistance, a component of many diabetes and pre-diabetes conditions.
Diabetes and pre-diabetes, if untreated and allowed to spiral out of control can be very dangerous. One of the roles of insulin in the human body is to aid in the take-up of blood sugars into the cells of the body. When a person has insulin resistance, it means that that a person’s cells don’t respond to insulin as they normally should do. The pancreas, the organ that produces insulin, then produces more insulin to try to compensate or overcome this cellular insensitivity. This eventually becomes ineffective, even though the body receives more insulin, the cells continue to resist the activities of the insulin and cause the levels of blood sugars to rise. The continued demands on the pancreas sometimes cause a shutdown of the insulin producing activities – by then the diabetic condition exists.
What should those who have metabolic syndrome do?
Fight the disease full force, and work to address all three issues at the same time. And this must be done before diabetes becomes a reality.
Increase physical activity and modify an unhealthy diet
Exercise can help shed body fat and enable a healthier weight to be attained. It is also extremely important to change to a better, nutritious diet that provides the right proportions and amounts of healthy foods. A diet low in saturated fat is key to helping lower both cholesterol levels and triglyceride levels. A diet that is extremely high in the wrong types of carbohydrates, those with a high glycemic index values and a high glycemic load will cause the condition of higher than normal blood sugar levels.
A balanced nutritious diet requires proteins, carbohydrates and fats, vitamins and minerals, eaten in appropriate quantities to sustain health but not contribute excess calories. Such a diet moght include lean animal protein, low-fat, moderate carbohydrates, and be high in fiber. Where necessary, medications may also be prescribed to help control blood sugar, hypertension, cholesterol, and triglycerides.
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