Diabetes is a group of metabolic disease. The person suffering with diabetes has a high blood glucose levels due to low production or non-responsive nature towards insulin. Depending on that it is divided into two type’s type 1 and type2 diabetes. Millions of people across the world were suffering from diabetes and still many fake illusions are arising in their minds on this disease. Let us discuss some of the myths by explaining the facts.Myth 1: Diabetes is not a deadly disease:
Fact is that diabetes is not a deadly disease but it can turn it easily to deadliest as many patients are dying still, when compared to other diseases, the death rate is high in the case of diabetes.Myth 2: We can postpone medicines and checkup :
Diabetes is mainly caused due to insulin shortage or irresponsiveness of body towards it, if you ignore the medicines you cannot take controlled over the insulin and our body too.You must not ignore the medicines and it must be taken at right time in order to keep your body responsive.Myth 3: Diabetes is caused due to obesity :
Diabetes can be caused genetically and it can also be treated as a genetically transferred disease. Type1 is an example for this type.Diabetes can be caused to lean patients also; Obesity is one of the high risk factor only.The fact is that obese patients has a high risk towards type2, but diabetes is not caused to only obese patients but also depends upon the life style of the people.Myth 4: Diabetes cannot attack on the people who don’t eat sweets :
The fact is it is not depended on the eating of sweet food but, how much you had eaten is counted.Myth 5: Diabetic drinks and diet foods are only way to control diabetes:
The above statement is not at all true. These days many advertisements are confusing the diabetic patients on their choice of food.We can plan a healthy meal with low fat, sugar and salt content.Diabetic and diet foods which are attracting commercially have no special effect or benefit and they are very expensive too.Myth 6: People with diabetes must not eat a single piece of sweet :
Many people had this kind of doubt in their mind. You need to work out to burn the carbohydrate.Diabetic people can also take sweet but in low amounts, but a piece of sweet can’t be dangerous as people think..Myth 7: Diabetes will spread from one people to other :
No, it will not spread as diabetes is not an infectious or contagious disease.It will not spread from one person to other as there will be no micro organisms involved.Myth 8: Diabetic patients can eat as many fruits as they want :
No we can’t go with this, because fruits also consist of sweeteners and carbohydrates.Diabetic patient must take every food with a complete plan.Myth 9: Diabetic patients has low survival rate :
No, it is not true; the patients with diabetes are less immune. By proper care and time to time medication can make it control and live as usual.Myth 10: Diabetes type 1 cannot be controlled through diet :
As it is a genetically abnormality, many of us may think like this but diet always control any type of diabetes. We cannot completely get cured but, we can prevent and get controlled
