JAKARTA - Chairman of the Indonesian Pediatrician Association (IDAI) DR. Dr. Piprim Basarah Yanuarso, Sp.A, Subs Kardio(K) said that lifestyle factors that become a habit of parents will decrease to children are more dominant than genetic factors that cause children to get type 2 diabetes.
"So sometimes we like to blame the genetic factors, even though it's not good at sports, which often snack, the same type of diet is then much more dangerous than the genetic factors alone," Piprim told ANTARA, Saturday.
Piprim said lifestyle patterns are more important to control than just controlling genetic factors because children will follow the habits of their activities and what their parents consume.
Even though parents have a history of diabetes, their children may not have diabetes if from the start a healthy lifestyle in the family is applied such as getting enough sleep, exercising regularly with sufficient intensity, fasting intermittent, and improving diets with high nutritional standards, high animal protein, and limiting sugar consumption and fast carbohydrates. absorb.
Piprim also said that children must be allowed to move as part of their daily physical routine to stay active and healthy. The routine of moving should also not be blocked by gadget distraction which makes children lazy to move.
This is also a relief stress for children so as not to become a pile of disease in the future.
Because of chronic stress, overthinking people can also cause many diseases. That's why how not to overthinking, the exercise is still enough. So if people are made physically stressed, the psychological stress will decrease," he said.
Piprim said that in Indonesia, the prevalence of children with type 1 diabetes is still quite high, namely almost 90 percent of children, but with a dominant lifestyle, sweet foods and type 2 diabetes laziness will also match the type 1 diabetes position.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease where the pancreas cannot produce insulin, with the physical symptoms of a child who has been thin since childhood. While type 2 diabetes is caused by a pancreas that experiences disorders in producing insulin and the body becomes insulin resistant due to an unhealthy lifestyle.
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Piprim also explained that the symptoms of type 1 and 2 diabetes are the same, namely that children continue to be hungry even though they have eaten a lot, drank a lot, increased urine and gained weight.
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