Internist Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia CiptoMangunkusumo, Prof. Dr. dr. PradanaSoewondo, SpPD-KEMD not deny that Indonesian peopleare susceptible to diabetes.
When the economic improved and the income get raise, the risk to consume carbohydrate and fatty food also get increased as well as along the development of technology. Technology makes people less do physical activities. If the first farmer used to walk or ride a bike to the field, now they ride motorcycles. Moreover there are BTS or Base Transceiver Station in everywhere (cellular telephone network transmitter / mobile phone),at the end it consequently affect the quality and productivity of life,Pradana said on Ramadhan application launching “Diabetes and me” at JS Luwansa, Jakarta, Monday May 23rd 2014.
Pradana also urge the public to changes the way of life by consume nutritionally balanced foods to prevent the increasing number of diabetes victims.
“Eatcarbohydrates at most 40-50 percent, 60 percent protein and 20 percent fat. Do not just eat rice and meat only. Our food today has shifted become more fat and protein thus increasing the amount of calories and lots of fat, "he continue explained.
For almost last 20 years, as a person who have diabetes type 2, I have heard a lot of interesting facts about diabetes that has made me just surprised. Interesting facts below are fun to share. 20 Interesting Facts about Diabetes
In 1941, a first blood test method called Clinitest introduced by Ames Diagnostics requires the mixing of urine and water in a test tube and add a little blue pill that causes a chemical reaction that can cause severe burns due to the physical extreme heat. Liquid color will indicate whether there is glucose in the urine. In 1969, the first portable blood glucose meter was created by Ames Diagnostics. It was called the Ames Reflectance Meter (ARM). Ames later became part of Bayer. The device looks a lot like the tricorder used in the original Star Trek series. It price about $ 650 and it only intended for physicians in their practice or hospital. Portable blood glucose meters which is used for home use by the patient is not sold in the United States until the 1980s. Dr. Richard Bernstein, an author of the popular book Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution, was the first to use a portable meter to check blood sugar levels at home. He was an engineer and at that time he suffered due to diabetes type 1. He gained ARM meter intended only for doctors. Because he was not a doctor at the time, he spoke of his wife (who is a psychiatrist) to obtain the device for him. Diabetic condition drastically improved. She later campaigned for home blood glucose meter portable for use by patients at home. He was not able to get a medical journal to publish his studies, so at the age of 43 years he went to medical school and become an endocrinologist.
India is the highest numbers of people with diabetes type 2, more than any other country in the world. Country with the highest percentage of people with type 2 diabetes is a small island in the South Pacific called Nauru. It is the third smallest country in the world after Vatican City and Monaco. The earliest known written records which may be called diabetes was in 1500 BC in the Ebers papyrus of Egypt. It refers to the symptoms of frequent urination.
Symptoms of diabetes such as thirst, weight loss, and excess urination recognized for more than 1,200 years before the disease had a name. Greek physician Aretaeus credited with coming up with the name "diabetes" in the first century AD and think snake bites are caused diabetes. Dr. Thomas Willis (1621-1675) called diabetes "pissing evil" and describes the urine of people with type 2 diabetes as a "remarkable sweet, as if it were imbued with honey or sugar." He was also the first person whom describes the pain and sting of diabetic nerve damage. Diabetes is a Greek word meaning "to pass." It was observed that urine passing the patients by rapidly caused by diabetes. Mellitus word is from Latin and means "sweet as honey."
In ancient times, doctors will examine the diabetes by tasting the urine to taste if it was sweet. People who tasted the urine to check for diabetes are called "water tasters." Other diagnostic measures include checking to examine if the urine attracts ants or flies. In the late 1850s a French doctor named Priorry advice patients with diabetes suffer to eat large amounts of sugar. Obviously, that method of treatment does not done well. Dr. Elliott P. Joslin,is a founder of Joslin Diabetes Center, was the first physician who is interested after her aunt was diagnosed and was told that there is no cure and little hope for diabetes victim. He died from complications of diabetes not long after. Her mother was diagnosed at the year he began practice in 1898 (several years after the death of his aunt). He helped manage diabetes and he lived 10 years longer which is quite an achievement for the time.
Dr. Elliott P. Joslin said that diabetes is "the best chronic disease" due to it being "clean, seldom unsightly, not contagious, often painless and susceptible to treatment."
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