Type-2 diabetes can be prevented if some specific measures are taken timely, which include the discussion of the medical history of the family with the doctor, because of the genetic factor associated with the onset of the disease. Pandemic of the disease has urged the medical researchers to research on the disease and till date much research is done on thousands of patients and enormous amount of data has been collected. Using these studies and data and the family’s medical history, the doctors can predict the onset of type-2 diabetes in advance, sometimes a few years earlier, and prompt you to take necessary measures to prevent the onset of disease. Sometimes environmental factors come into play, which turn the genetic possibility into a full-blown disease. Some of them are discussed below:
4 Environmental Factors That can Trigger Type-2 Diabetes
Living a sedentary lifestyle: Being inactive means making it easy for the type-2 diabetes to strike you and it is easily shown by many studies that risk of triggering of type-2 diabetes rise greatly if the person remains inactive.
Maintaining a high body mass index: When is studied in relation to height gives a measure of body mass index or BMI is used by the doctors for assessing the health of your body. Risk of developing type-2 diabetes greatly increases if the BMI is very high, for a person, with more fat-ratio compared to the body weight. This can be easily expected from a person with a family history of type-2 diabetes and living an inactive lifestyle.
Visceral fat: Measuring waistline gives the measure of the visceral fat, which is mainly maintained in the midsection of the body. This tells the definition of visceral fat, which is the fat distributed centrally. It is caused when more fat is consumed by the overweight people. More fats around the midsection of the body means around the stomach, the gut, the liver, pancreas etc. This creates a lot of pressure on these organs and hence may decrease insulin production and increase its resistance, increasing the chances of strike by type-2 diabetes on a person, already genetically exposed to the disease.
Not enough fiber in your diet: Fibers are indigestible, and hence these remain in the alimentary canal for a long time, helping in peristalsis and digestion of the food. In the struggle against the diabetes, it is extremely helpful as it acts a protective agent against it by slowing down the rate of glucose diffusion into the bloodstream.
