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Imbalances in blood sugar and excess weight may appear together or one following the other, especially after middle age. When that happens not only produces a semantic combination of the names of these two disorders, but triggered a mixture of effects which is harmful to health.

The generalization of overweight, obesity and diabetes among the population has already reached in many developed countries the size of a real pandemic, which in 2025 may affect worldwide to 300 million people, with a high risk of suffering severe vascular disorders.

The problem is much greater in countries like the U.S., where smoking also threatens to collapse the health system unless we take drastic measures to narrow, but the so-called “diabesity” ‘-clever contraction of the words diabetes and obesity-is reached worrying proportions in other developed countries.

The relationship between excess weight and diabetes was one of the main issues discussed during the last congress of the uropean Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) held in the city of Jerusalem. The participants have agreed on linking diabetes with the current sedentary lifestyle and poor diet which encourages overweight, and warned that there will be an escalation in the incidence of both diseases if urgent measures are taken so that society change their behavior.

Excess fat, excess sugar behaves like a true gland attached to the body and dangerous to your health. This is because fat cells secrete molecules that promote insulin resistance, a process that causes blood sugar to rise, along with promoting inflammation, alter immune response and damage the inner lining or endothelium of the blood vessels.

Diabesity sufferers are born with a pancreas that produce insulin in adequate quantity and works well. But due to obesity that insulin than before did its role in the body is now produced in exorbitant amounts, the muscles have to
carry the glucose to fly resistant to this hormone and an increased glucose level blood, in what is called diabetes II.

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