10 Reasons to Test for Diabetes Before You Turn 25

The urge to get tested and screened for ailments and ‘scary’ diseases is not one of the driving factors leading young people to the doctor’s room nowadays. There are hundreds of reasons why young people should get tested before they turn 25. We have compiled just ten, take them in and spread the facts with your friends, guaranteed is that you will save a life.

25 percent of people with type 2 diabetes don’t even know it.

The fact that a significant amount of people you bump shoulders with is either on the brink of collapsing due to kidney failure and that you could just be in as much or at higher risk should be enough to get you more concerned about your health. However, as is the case nowadays, there is need to provide more information to convince most people to move from their daily routine and set their health on a better route.

There are way too many types to turn a blind eye

For most people, diabetes is the all-descriptor for what would happen when your blood sugar is above normal. The truth is there are so many causes and instances that result in diabetic illness. For one, Gestational diabetes, the least expected and yet prone to happen in as many women as would like to get pregnant and give birth to the gift of life.

The causes are everywhere

You’ve probably given in to the temptation of ordering an extra shake or more sauce than you’d ever succumb to a friend suggesting that you go for a diabetes screening session, but you are not alone, millions of people give in too everyday. The food we have become accustomed to eating is one of the strongest factors in all this, almost as much as the lifestyle of as little physically demanding activity as we possibly can manage to get through a day to another.

The reality of prediabetes

A lot of today’s youth fall into a group with the condition of prediabetes, they have just as much sugar in their blood to tip over to the type-2 diabetics classification, but their body still produces enough insulin to keep the balance on the tip of a needle. Although it would appear as though they are healthy, the tumble towards deteriorated health is only an extra gulp of soda away.

This condition can is diagnosed through simple tests and a session that is safe and painless. Knowing your status becomes the first step towards a more productive and healthier life. The choices you will have the power to make after the test will be the difference between falling flat on your face unexpectedly and a long healthy life.

Symptoms are easy to miss

After a long night of partying and other activities common to the lifestyle of most youth, it is not common to feel the following ways:

~ Tiredness

~ Cuts that seem never to heal

~ Increased thirst

Many times, these symptoms fade away, but if you have been experiencing these for some time, even not after too many parties, but just by going through your usual routine, you should check into a clinic and get tested for prediabetes.

The worst part about following symptoms as you would with breadcrumbs in an investigation is that prediabetes can come with silent symptoms. You don’t know that you had the power to alter your health outcome until it is too late.

Early diagnosis and management is recommended

Many cases of type-2 diabetes that developed from the prediabetics stage could have been averted through voluntary lifestyle changes. The few things that are taken by some people as luxuries are in fact the reasons behind most Americans are losing control of their health conditions on a daily basis. It is to your benefit to know where you stand and make the necessary changes to bring your life towards better health.

You can dodge the bullet

Once you are in the know, the few modifications that would then be called for would go beyond saving your life from diabetes; they will become a buffer to protect you from many of the illnesses that never used to plague humans just 50 years ago. The same action of not eating anything that would never have been considered as food at the start of this century will save from new (and usually long named) types of illnesses.

There are better medicines than shots and pills

If you’ve lived with a person with diabetes, you know how terrible the idea of insulin shots on a regular basis is. There are many ways through which you can avoid having to take multiple shots to stay alive and active. Through making deliberate lifestyle adjustments, a prediabetic can lower the risk of developing into a full-blown type-2 diabetic. There is no arguing the fact that any option that does not involve inserting needles is much better a route to ascertain your health.

You can regularly test on your own

Although not very easy to diagnose, some people have phobias of clinic lobbies and hospitals in general. That should not be a hindrance from getting the same knowledge about diabetes and your status. You can now regularly test in the comfort of your home and act accordingly depending on your findings.

Converting yourself from the common state of having no knowledge into somewhat of an expert in keeping yourself and your friends aware is as simple as it takes to save a handful of lives. Each life is worth the effort.

The lifestyle to live a healthy life is not hard

You might be asking yourself what comes after knowing everything there is about your health status and the lifestyle to a longer and fulfilling life. There are plenty of things that suddenly become possible once you start living a healthy way of life, and the choice is entirely yours what you want to do with the confirmed lease of life.

You can start on such a path today. Call a friendly doctor and get a consultation or test to know your status.

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