Health

To-day people all over the world, have become more health conscious than everbefore and are taking positive steps to prevent the diseases. In the past century people focused on the accumulation of wealth, whereas the 21st-century is focusing on the acquisition of health.
Today some of the most life-threatening diseases are Diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and Thyroidism.
Diabetes mellitus is the most common worldwide. Diabetics can strike at any age, any sex and any socio economic class. No country has escaped this disease, which is caused often due to genetic predisposition, a reckless lifestyle and severe mental and physical stress. It is also a refined foods , fried food, fast food, packaged and preserved food, alcohol and tobacco abuse, sedentry work habits, predominantly indoor living, air pollution, water pollution, a fast paced high-powered life with fractured relationships, mental stress at work and at home and the ever increasing emotional instability have all chipped in to create degenerative diseases like diabetes.
Constant fatigue, proneness to infections are the earliest symptoms of diabetes. As the disease worsens the patient experiences symptoms like excessive urination, excessive thirst and desire for water and excessive hunger. Diabetes is associated with loss of weight, increasing weakness and finally complications like heart attacks, paralysis, nerve disease , blindness and kidney failure. It takes nearly 15 to 20 years, from the earliest symptoms to the onset of complications. This is slow and surreptitious progress makes diabetes the number one Silent killer in medical history.