{"id":3713,"date":"2022-01-07T10:10:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T10:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2022-03-31T08:24:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T08:24:23","slug":"diabetes-and-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/diabetes-and-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"Diabetes and Obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>High blood glucose levels may lead to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Organ damage involving the kidneys (diabetic nephropathy)<\/li>\n<li>Nervous system (diabetic neuropathy)<\/li>\n<li>Eyes (diabetic retinopathy)<\/li>\n<li>Circulatory system<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>About obesity:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obesity is a state of excess body fat. The prevalence of obesity is expressed by using body mass index (BMI), a simple index of weight-for-height that classifies underweight, overweight and obesity in adults. Excess weight and obesity lead to adverse metabolic effects on blood pressure, lipid levels and insulin resistance and thus pose a major risk for serious chronic diseases, including hypertension, Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease. In addition, obesity increases the risk of respiratory difficulties, chronic musculoskeletal problems, infertility, gallbladder disease, and certain forms of cancer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diabetes and Obesity:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obesity is a major modifiable risk factor for one type of diabetes (Type 2 Diabetes).<\/p>\n<p>The steps taken to manage diabetes and obesity must encourage and facilitate physical activity and a healthy diet, and control access to energy dense foods and drinks. Health promotion, particularly in relation to diet, weight control and physical activity, can play a part but it is not sufficient on its own.<\/p>\n<p>Obesity, mainly the abdominal obesity, is a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes and also for other non-communicable diseases such as heart attack and stroke. If weight gain is prevented most of diabetes cases can be eliminated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High blood glucose levels may lead to: Organ damage involving the kidneys (diabetic nephropathy) Nervous system (diabetic neuropathy) Eyes (diabetic retinopathy) Circulatory system About obesity: Obesity is a state of excess body fat. The prevalence of obesity is expressed by using body mass index (BMI), a simple index of weight-for-height that classifies underweight, overweight and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,259,249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diet-nutrition-food","category-lifestyle-management","category-lose-weight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3717,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions\/3717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}