According to 2019 data, the number of diabetics in China ranks first in the world.
The global prevalence of diabetes in adults aged 20 to 79 years is 8.3%, and the number of patients has reached 382 million, of which 80% are in low- and middle-income countries.
The prevalence of diabetes in adults aged 18 and over in China has reached 11.6%, meaning that 1 in 10 Chinese adults has diabetes.
More seriously, in China, the awareness rate of diabetics is only 30.1%, which means that about 80 million of the 114 million diabetics in the mainland are unaware.
Recently, Ruijin Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University has an interesting discovery: eating spicy can improve blood sugar.
The study, based on a sample of more than 200 million Chinese covering all provinces in the country, analyzed the relationship between the geographical distribution of dietary preferences and diabetes risk.
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People who love to eat spicy
Is it really less likely to get diabetes?
The results of the study showed:
● Frying, barbecue, sweets and diabetes risk are positively correlated, while spicy.
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● In other words, liking to eat spicy is a protective factor for diabetes, which can significantly improve fasting and postprandial blood sugar.
● Although "hemp" can not significantly reduce the incidence of disease, it can also improve glucose metabolism to a certain extent.
Researchers are also making unremitting explorations, and some studies have found that capsaicin in chili peppers is related to reducing fasting blood sugar levels and insulin levels.
Eating spicy foods will promote fat oxidation, energy expenditure, and may reduce the risk of diabetes, obesity and other diseases to a certain extent.
Another study has found that peppers may increase the number or affinity of insulin receptors, improve insulin clearance, and improve postprandial hyperinsulinemia, so people who often eat spicy peppers will have a lower probability of postprandial insulinemia.
That is to say, according to the current research results, love of spicy food may indeed be more friendly to diabetes.
So, is it scientific to use the "eat more spicy" method to prevent and treat diabetes?
The answer is no.
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Common "spicy foods" in our lives, such as hot pot, spicy hot, etc., in addition to spicy, often have problems such as high oil and high salt at the same time.
Therefore, in the specific food selection, we should pay attention to adhere to the principle of light diet, and need to eat moderately spicy.
In addition, diabetic people in the mainland are mainly middle-aged and elderly people, and whether the gastrointestinal condition can accept the stimulation of spicy food varies from person to person.
If you usually eat spicy stomach discomfort, or have other discomfort, then it is not recommended to eat spicy. People with chronic cough and bronchitis dilation can not eat spicy, there is a risk of inducing asthma.
In the case of physical acceptance, you can eat more spicy food appropriately. For example, replacing some heavy flavored condiments with chili peppers is a healthier choice.
Also, take care to avoid cooking with heavy oil and salt.
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How to properly prevent diabetes?
The first step is to develop a healthy lifestyle, which is an important measure to prevent diabetes. It mainly includes reasonable diet, moderate exercise and good attitude.
Among them, reasonable diet is the key to preventing diabetes, mainly including regular diet, eating small and frequent meals, controlling food calorie intake, avoiding overeating, quitting smoking and limiting alcohol.
At the same time, moderate exercise, such as walking, jogging and swimming, can also help improve the body's immunity and prevent the occurrence of diabetes.
In addition, a positive and good attitude also has a certain effect on the prevention of diabetes.
Second, screening for diabetes in high-risk populations needs to be strengthened.
The high-risk groups of diabetes mainly include people with a family history of diabetes; history of impaired glucose tolerance or impaired fasting blood glucose; Those older than 45 years with a body mass index greater than 24;
those with low HDL cholesterol and/or hypertriglyceridemia;
Patients with hypertension and/or cardiovascular and cerebrovascular lesions should strengthen diabetes screening for such groups, regularly screen for fasting blood glucose or glucose tolerance, and carry out preventive intervention as soon as possible.
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If you have diabetes
How should it be handled?
1. Control your diet.
Patients with diabetes are often inseparable from their eating habits. Therefore, controlling diet can effectively control blood sugar and slow down the worsening of diabetes.
The main thing is to match the diet, light diet eat more green leafy vegetables and whole grains, do not eat too greasy or high calorie desserts, sugar cubes, carbonated acid, drinks, etc.
2. Exercise therapy.
Aerobic exercise can reduce blood sugar in the body, choose some aerobic exercise, such as swimming, jogging, jogging, cycling and other aerobic exercises, so as to achieve the purpose of blood sugar control, reduce the occurrence and development of diabetes complications.
3. Drug treatment, combined with medical advice.
The choice of western drugs mainly includes oral hypoglycemic drugs, such as metformin acarbose, glimepiride, linagliptin, dapagliflozin rosiglitazone and other related oral hypoglycemic drugs.
Subcutaneous insulin can also be used for treatment, and there are many types of insulin, including rapid-acting insulin, ultra-fast-acting insulin, premixed and long-acting insulin, and intermediate-acting insulin.
Therefore, do not blindly use spicy methods to deal with diabetes, you need to eat regularly, maintain a happy mood, and use scientific methods to prevent and deal with diabetes.
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Author|Xu Lang