Year 2011 is over.  It is time to plan to lose weight in early year, after new year celebration and holidays.  Diabetes topic is always a topic i would like to share, seeing most people are not sensitive to weight-related health problems, especially diabetes.

Some facts of diabetes to lose weight

Whether you aware of it or not, overweight people are twice as likely to develop lifetyle-related Type 2 Diabetes (non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus) as people who are not overweight.  Those with severe obesity are 30 times more likely to develop this form of diabetes; the risk is 10 times greater in moderately obese patients.  That is why you need to decide to lose weight and enroll in a healthy weight loss program if you really care about yourself.

Type 2 Diabetes reduces your body’s ability to control your blood sugar.  It is a major cause of early death, heart disease, kidney disease, stroke and blindness.

According to the study from Diabetes Care on nurses, the risk of diabetes increased 5-fold for those with a body mass index (BMI) of 25, 28-fold for those with BMI of 30, and 93-fold for those with BMI of 35 or greater. Continue Reading…