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The Rise of Diabetes and How to Prevent it #diabetes #diabetesanded #ed #viral #shorts #menshealth

15 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video by Anne Truong MD explaining why diabetes rates are rising and how to prevent it. The speaker attributes the rise to increased calorie intake and physical inactivity, links rising obesity rates with diabetes, advises diet change (noting a claimed “prediabetic” hemoglobin threshold), and states that diabetes is the fifth leading cause of death in men.

Questions this video answers

"hemoglobin is less than 7" (as stated by the speaker).

Fifth leading cause of death in men.

Chapters

The good thing about diabetes is that once you know you have, you can be in the pre diabetic stage, which is when your hemoglobin is less than 7, then you can actually change your diet to adjust. The reason why there's a rise in diabetes, because of increased calories inactivity, you're not exercising as much. That's mainly the reason why industrialized country and now there's rising rate of obesity correlate with rising rate of diabetes. And diabetes is the fifth leading cause of death in men. That's pretty staggering.