The Cause of the Excess Carbohydrate Diabetes

The high number of people with diabetes mellitus (DM) in India caused the pattern of a person eating too much carbohydrate mengonsumsi. This was the Head of Center for Studying medicine Nature Materials (PS-OBA) Department of Pharmacy Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Indonesia (UI-FMIPA) Sumali Wiryowidagdo.

According to him, with rice as a staple food, is not strange if this country occupies the fourth position in the highest number of diabetics in the world. Rice contains a lot of glucose in the quantity and excessive glucose is one of the causes of the disease diabetes.



"It has been repeatedly suggested to replace rice with other food as a staple food, but the person we are harder to change kebiasaannya, the" clear Sumali.

It is said, a different pattern of food do people in developed countries. They consume more protein than fat and carbohydrate. Mentioned, the number of diabetics in Indonesia reached 8.5 million people in 2000. After five years one, the number of people estimated to have increased three-fold.

DM disease is a chronic disease with a marked increase in blood sugar because of the lack of insulin or not functioning of hormone insulin in the body.

Insulin function is to transfer the glucose into the blood cells so that glucose can be used as a source of energy. When the hormone insulin does not exist or does not work then there will be a cumulation measure glucose / sugar in the blood.

While the symptoms of diabetes, among others, by the frequency of waste water a small increase, due to weakness interference level cell nutrition levels, keputihan in women who are difficult because the fungus infection, disturbances of vision disturbances nutrition because cells on the eye retina, and other .

In addition, the risk factors that can cause someone is exposed to DM among, from the family genetic factors, excess body weight, smoking, high blood, high cholesterol level, lack of exercise, and increasing age.