The truth about diabetes and weight loss

Many women diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are overweight, even obese. At least eighty percent of women with type 2 diabetes weigh twenty percent more than they should for their height and age. This is what is known as obesity. Therefore, weight control is a critical health issue for women at this present time.

Today, the average woman is 5ft 4″ (163 cm) tall and weighs 164 pounds (74 kg); this is almost 25 pounds (11 kg) heavier than the average woman back in the 1960′s. In addition, the female population is living longer than ever. Consequently, the incidence of type 2 diabetes is growing.

Many women have dieted themselves up to their current weight.

The road to obesity has been paved with chronic dieting. At least fifty percent of women are dieting at any given time. Dieting in your teen years and twenties can predispose you to obesity in your thirties and beyond. Unfortunately, most of this dieting did not incorporate exercise, which means that women lost some of their muscles and fat.

Women accumulate fat differently from men and in different places on their bodies, which is more challenging to burn off without increasing their exercise program to include aerobic exercise. One reason for this is that a woman’s metabolic system is different from a man’s.

Diabetes makes women much more susceptible to this cause of death.

For women, type 2 diabetes is associated with losing their gender-based protection against cardiovascular disease compared to men. As a result, according to new findings, they are more likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke than diabetic men. 

Heart attack and stroke risk increased.

The data situation, which US cardiologists set out now in a detailed overview, is, however, clear:

• Women with type 2 diabetes get sick earlier at a heart attack or a stroke.
• They also die more frequently from it.
• It said on Monday in a dispatch of the DDG.

Also, chronic heart failure, a late consequence of a survived heart attack, is more frequent with women with type 2 diabetes. The causes are not entirely clear, according to Müller-Wieland. “One reason could be that the consequences of type 2 diabetes for women are underestimated by doctors and those affected,” the expert suspects.

For example, women are less likely to receive medication for high blood pressure or high cholesterol levels, significant risk factors for heart attacks, and strokes. Separately, female patients with type 2 diabetes often have more difficulty adjusting blood glucose, blood lipids, and blood pressure levels than male patients because of their hormonal status.

Hormonal imbalances may also play a role in gender differences. For example, between six and eight percent of all women of childbearing age have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). It is associated with a loss of insulin action, in addition to cycle disorders and an increase in male sex hormones.

Pay attention to women’s particular risks and make lifestyle changes.

Women with PCOS are often overweight with an unfavorable accumulation of fatty tissue in the abdominal area, worsening the risk profile.

Therefore, the physicians appeal to medical professionals to consider the extraordinary risk of women with diabetes when preventing cardiovascular disease. But women themselves can also do something. Studies show that women with type 2 diabetes benefit more than men from lifestyle changes.

That includes physical activity as well as a healthy diet. But, according to current knowledge, while women would need to make more of a commitment than men, the hurdles are not insurmountable. For example, in the Nurses Health Study, a long-term study of American nurses, women with diabetes could reduce their cardiovascular risk with as little as two hours of exercise a week.

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Also, hormonal changes and weight gain can conspire to put your blood sugar levels out of whack, so you will need to talk to your healthcare provider about whether or not adjustments should be made to your medication type or dosage.

Resist those risky shortcuts

It is essential to understand that weight loss in women aims to achieve metabolic fitness. Which may be at a weight where you might not be thin but where your lipids and blood sugar levels are in a healthy target range, and where you have also achieved a healthy level of physical fitness.

If you are at risk for type 2 diabetes or have already been diagnosed with this condition, studies show that eating a balanced diet and reducing your fat intake will cause you to be much more aware of what you eat. Almost without exception, people who adopt a lower-fat diet will begin to incorporate fewer animal products and increase the number of vegetables into their food plan.

You need both a meal plan and exercise

The mainstay of type 2 diabetes treatment is a healthy eating plan and exercise… but no matter what else you do, nothing will work without following a healthy eating plan, not your medications or exercise.

Women have working for them because they are open to seeing their health care provider regularly… so choosing a good healthcare provider to take care of you and your type 2 diabetes is a long-term decision.

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