Diabetes is
one of the common diseases in India. Earlier, it was the older generation that suffered from this but now a study has revealed that people aged 20 could get this disease.

According to a study, women are more
prone to diabetes than men and more than half of men and
around two-thirds of women in the age group of 20 are prone to diabetes in
their life span. The study also says that metropolitan teenagers will be the
ones developing this disease.

Why
metropolitan cities only? The reason for this is the degrading and imbalanced lifestyle.
Youths these days are more into unhealthy eating and close to no workout at
all. This is affecting their health so much that they are prone to such a
severe disease, which was very uncommon back in times.

The most
common cause of diabetes is obesity or being overweight, which is the outcome of
unhealthy eating habits like junk food, carbonated drinks, alcohol. Another cause
is the sedentary lifestyle, which includes sitting all day, not engaging
yourselves in any activity, being continuously on your phones and PCs. This way
they do not understand the importance of workout or any physical activities.

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According to
the scientists, including those from the Centre for Chronic Disease Control
(CCDC) in New Delhi, the country already has a significant health burden caused
by diabetes with more than 77 million adults currently affected by the condition,
and the number expected to almost double to 134 million by 2045.

Youths these
days are more into indoor activities of watching Netflix, playing video games,
being on their phones most of the time and no physical activities at all. This
slowly became a habit among the youths. Even if they get chance to engage in
any physical activity, they find shortcuts how not to do those. For example,
most of the youngsters refrain themselves from taking stairs in any public
place. They only prefer elevators or escalators.

In a whole
this lifestyle in metro cities has become very common with all the facilities
that comes from their better living condition than the youths of second tier
cities.

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The
research, published in the journal Diabetologia, estimated the probability of a
metropolitan Indian of any age or body mass index (BMI) developing diabetes in
their lifetime.

In the
study, the researchers assessed age, sex, and BMI specific incidence rates of
diabetes in urban India based on data from the Centre for Cardiometabolic Risk
Reduction in South Asia (2010-2018).

According to
the researchers, for those currently aged 60 years and currently free of
diabetes, around 38 per cent of women and 28 per cent of men would go on to
develop diabetes.

It has also been
seen that in between the hustle of work and life, youths are not able to
maintain proper diet or any physical activity, even if they want to. For
example, in these months of lockdown, they were forced to study online sitting
6-8 hours straight in front of their phones or laptops. They could not go out. After
all this they would want some entertainment, so they pick the easier options
than the tiring ones.

Our youths
make the most of our India’s population and this severe disease is gulping our
youths which is clearly problematic for our country and its economy. But there
is a possibility to put down the risks of diabetes if we modify our lifestyle
which includes encouraging healthy eating options along with regular physical
activities to our youths.

So, be
healthy and fit not obese and overweight.