Risk factors for diabetes

❗️Reduce your risk of diabetes or prediabetes.

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Reducing Risks means doing behaviors that minimize or prevent complications and negative outcomes of prediabetes and diabetes.

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Risk factors for diabetes and prediabetes include:

✅Being overweight

✅Being 45 years or older

✅Having a parent, brother, or sister with type 2 diabetes

✅Being physically active less than 3 times a week

✅Ever having gestational diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy) or giving birth to a baby who weighed more than 9 pounds

✅Having polycystic ovary syndrome

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Good news is that you can reduce your chances of getting diabetes by:

✔️LOSING WEIGHT. Statistics say that 80% of people who have diabetes are overweight

✔️EXERCISING MORE.

✔️QUITTING SMOKING. Smoking has been proven to increase blood pressure levels, which are known to be a major cause of diabetes.

✔️EATING HEALTHY. Studies published in 2009 revealed that eating processed meat ups your risk of diabetes by 40% and more recent research has shown that vegetarians are a third less likely to suffer from heart problems, a stroke, or diabetes.

✔️CUTTING DOWN ON ALCOHOL. Heavy drinking can also lead to conditions such as chronic pancreatitis, which has a side-effect of diabetes.

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Remember that insulin signaling is essential for brain health, and people with diabetes are at increased risk of cognitive impairment and dementia.

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🧠If you want to assess your risk of getting diabetes schedule a FREE consultation (in person or online) with High Performance Brain. For more information visit our websitehpbrain.org

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