ONCE AGAIN ABOUT HEALTHY NUTRITION AND ITS ROLE IN PREVENTION OF TYPE 2 DIABETES

Abstract

Education concerning nutrition and healthy eating is very important in our lives in order to maintain and even improve our health, furthermore we have to acknowledge that by following an healthy lifestyle we can prevent future diseases: excessive weight gain and obesity, metabolic diseases and diabetes as well as cardiovascular and even oncologic diseases. Cardiovascular diseases are among the leading causes of death, according to the World Health Organization' -WHO- statistics reports. Annually, 10 percent of deaths are due to heart diseases. Obesity has increased three times in the last 10 years in the Romanian population and is one of the major risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases, all of the above mentioned being highly prevalent in Romania.