My mother, who used to be a nurse, told me, "Dad is going to amputate." My dad has poor diabetes control, and his toes become black and corrupt, and he may need amputation soon.
My father is obese and started suffering from diabetes in his forties. It was initially controlled with oral medications and later switched to insulin injections. At the age of seventy, he needed to be hospitalized multiple times due to cardiovascular disease caused by diabetes. He also had retinal bleeding, kidney failure and other problems caused by diabetes.
I was thinking, my father is so heavy, how will he live after amputation? I was only worried for half a month that my father had passed away from heart failure. Eleven years have passed in a blink of an eye, and I have always been thinking about ways to control and relieve type 2 diabetes.
About one in ten Hong Kong people has diabetes. Diabetes is more common among elderly people over 65 years old, about 20 to 30%. Type 2 diabetes is caused by excess body fat which reduces the sensitivity of cells to insulin. Excessive blood sugar that is not properly processed can lead to a variety of complications, including stroke, heart disease, vascular disease, kidney failure, etc.
Additionally, patients with diabetes are more likely to have hyperlipidemia. So if you can be vegetarian, please try to be vegetarian. There is data showing that a vegetarian diet can reduce the risk of diabetes. Plus thirty minutes of aerobic exercise every day to keep your body healthy. We should not wait until the day when an amputation is needed to adjust our lives.
Diabetes has a genetic component, but this is a fact we cannot change. My father had diabetes and died of complications from diabetes. Like father, not like son. I choose a healthy vegetarian diet and exercise. Today I am not troubled by this disease.
▲ Radiology Specialist Dr. Shum Sing Fai, John
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