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Diabetes – When Sweet becomes
Poison.
By Dr.Banchob
Junhasavasdikul
"We have heard
that meat and fat are risky and harmful to our health. So someone
who follows the health tips will not eat meat such as vegetarians.
Someone will trim fat from meat in every dish, for example, they
eat chicken meat with no skin." Ph.D. Dr. Wisan Yaowapongsiri said.
"Now many people are too much worried about meat and fat, but they
do not even know that the new dodgy nutrients which can harm anyone's
health is starch and sweet."
"Why do I say
like this? Because of carbohydrate which is used as fuel in our
body to supply energy can be absorbed into blood vessels and then
turned to be glucose in the bloodstream. Some of carbohydrate is
turned to be a substance known as tri-glyceride, which causes to
be high cholesterol in blood vessels and also to be fat. Moreover,
some of carbohydrate is still as glucose in the bloodstream and
not leave our body's cells. This is what makes us older. If the
glucose sticks to the cells for a long time, it becomes diabetes."
Ph.D. Dr. Wisan repeated.
"Food made from
flour and sweets can be found anywhere and the price is inexpensive.
So people can eat them in many types all the time and the result
is there are many people suffered from diabetes nowadays. Most people
who are obese tend to have excessive amount of starch or to be diabetes.
According to the Thai statistic, some provinces or regions which
have a lot of products made of sugar, the residents tend to suffer
from diabetes. For example, Petchburi, where is famous for palm
sugar, Chonburi, Rayong and other provinces on the eastern coast
of Thailand, where sugar-cane grows and many sugar factories are
located. Many people who live in these areas have diabetes as well."
"But it is not
always like that. Because of comfortable transportation nowadays,
sweets can be delivered rapidly to other places. So people who live
around those provinces may not always suffer from obesity and diabetes.
For example, everyone who comes to Chonburi has to visit and buy
glutinous rice in bamboo slip at Nongmon. This dessert is sweet
even more every day so there are many people suffered from diabetes.
Bangkok, where people love eating, tends to have a greater number
of people with obesity and diabetes than other provinces." He added
What is the weak point
of eating sweet? First, you have to understand the fundamental process
of the body system used for living. It is a system to burn nutrients
known as metabolism. The body has glucose in cells as a fuel and
wait for oxygen circulating to cells. Then, oxygen will burn glucose
(fuel) in each cell to create energy. It is like to light a small
fire in cells. The fire will burn the fuel in order to renew cells,
but remaining carbon in those cells. Carbon generates free radicals
which can destroy cells. It is like burning leaves, explosion of
benzene in mobile engine or heat the oil in a pan, which causes
smoke, carbon and exhausted gas.
If your blood sugar
level stays higher than normal, your tissues can easily be burned.
For example, it's like when meat which contains protein is covered
with sugar, and then brings it to burn. It can simply be blackened
with fire. You can learn by a chicken roasted with honey. When it
is burnt, the smell is sweeter than usual. That means the meat is
burnt with combustible sugar even the smell is savor. In this case,
pathologists know the best. They compare this incident with a human's
tendon. Kids and teenagers have a pretty white tendon, but a tendon
is yellow in an old age. That is because the tendon sheath is completely
used for many years, resulting in its color which is similar to
the color of chicken roasted with honey.
Another scholar who
explains the hazard of sugar with biochemical principle is Prof.
PhD. Maitree Sutthajit. He represents if you have high sugar in
blood and it cannot be used in time, sugar can be turned into a
chemical called Aldehyde group. Most people hardly know this word,
but if we talk about formalin, everybody knows it for sure. Formalin
is just a kind of embalming fluid. When aldehyde in the plasma is
formed, it is toxic to the cells because this chemical can change
protein into a deficient state.
My aunt tell me that
when she was a teenager and lived in Tae-Jew, a fight between two
families regularly took place, for example, Tae's family and Lim's
family. At first, it was just a common battle to save their area
like other rascals. Then, having been a fight, a young man was hit
to death in the village. Causing all the villagers brought guns,
knives, swords and etc in order to revenge. My aunt was a bravery
woman. She used to compete with a true man by carrying water tanks
on her shoulder with a pole. So at that time, she joined the fight
and brought her pistol with. The leader of the opposite side was
beheaded. The killer placed the leader's head in the jar of embalming
fluid and sent to the enemy in order to ridicule. The fluid they
used is honey. It is well known by almost everyone that honey is
a substance good for embalming bodies.
According to the story,
my aunt does not tell me who was a winner in the end. Without doubt,
both families definitely lost their member. For me, I just want
to express that letting your blood keep a great amount of sugar
is like you are going to embalm your own blood vessels and cells.
One of the most important
cells which are previously affected is red blood cells. They are
soft, flattened sacks, which shaped like doughnut without a hole.
Red blood cells have an average diameter of 7-micron. The most honorable
duty of red blood cells is to carry oxygen throughout the body.
Capillaries are slight hollow tubes of red blood cells' tips, which
merely as narrow as 4 microns in diameter.
The problem is that
red blood cells have density more than capillaries. So how can the
cells pass through these narrow cavities? The answer is these cells
have to pass through capillaries slowly. During this process, oxygen
will be absorbed from capillary to red blood cells. It depends on
the flexibility of red blood cell's coat to insert itself into the
capillaries as well. If its coats are soft and flexible, they can
easily pass through the capillaries without any problems. On the
other hand, if the coats are too stiff, how they can pass through
it. This is what makes the tissues in those areas lack of blood
supply.
Person who suffers
from diabetes will has the great amount of sugar in blood which
can make red blood cells inflexible. The result is blood cannot
be carried to other parts of the body which can lead to other diseases
as followed;
Retinas deteriorate.
Hard of hearing, damaged
auditory nerve.
Dull of the brain,
degenerate brain disorders, Alzimer
Finger numbness, Toe
numbness. Someone has to cut his leg off due to numbness, which
can unexpected lead to leg pain.
Sexual deficiency.
A person with diabetes
has episodes of high sugar in blood vessels, which can lead to high
blood pressure. Moreover, rough tube of blood vessels causes the
occurrence of platelet aggregation and patients will finally have
clogged blood vessels, ischemia and paralysis.
It seems Thai proverb
saying that 'It is better to take the bitter medicine than the sweet
one.' is true. If you eat too much starch and sweet, you will get
obesity, high levels of blood cholesterol, diabetes and many more
diseases. Anyone who suffers from diabetes is always careless because
this disease will not show the symptom immediately. But they will
be tortured in great pain later.
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