Abstinence to avoid people with diabetes is not just sugar and sugary foods, but also stress. Research shows, people with diabetes who have high risk for stress suffered serious damage to eyes.
Serious damage that can strike people with diabetes when stress, occurs in the retina, so it called diabetic retinopathy. Most are permanent, so that diabetic retinopathy also the most common cause of blindness in age group 25-74 years.
During this time, the risk of diabetic retinopathy more often associated with unhealthy lifestyles, including lack of exercise, frequent smoking and obesity. All three lead to type 2 diabetes, so that poorly controlled blood sugar levels and can lead to retinal damage.
Recently, Wayne Katon MD from the University of Washington Medical School revealed that depression also increase the risk of diabetic retinopathy. The higher the level of stress experienced by people with diabetes, the greater the risk of damage to the retina. (more…)
