Diabetes sugar-removing medicine reduces the calories of 1 soft-serve ice cream per day

Winter is a great time to nourish your body, as the chances of gathering with friends and family increase greatly. However, overeating and drinking may cause diabetics to lose their ability to control their blood sugar! According to clinical experience, cases of people falling into a coma and being sent to the emergency room due to high blood sugar levels are particularly likely to occur every winter. The number of diabetes patients in Taiwan has exceeded 1.7 million, and the prevalence rate is estimated to be about 9.78%, which means that one in every 10 Taiwanese people is a diabetic. Currently, there are new sugar-excretion drugs available to control blood sugar, which can also control daily calorie intake and avoid type 2 diabetes caused by obesity.

To prevent the occurrence of diabetes from the source, we should start by combating obesity and sugary diet must be strictly controlled.

According to statistics, 90% of diabetic patients suffer from type 2 diabetes, and most of these patients are overweight or obese. In order to prevent the occurrence of diabetes from the source, we should start by combating obesity; in addition, the use of new sugar-excreting drugs can eliminate about 312 calories per day, which can also achieve the effect of controlling blood sugar.

Losing weight helps control type 2 diabetes. Steady blood sugar control is also an important key.

The main characteristic of type 2 diabetes combined with obesity is the increased resistance to insulin. Weight loss can improve the resistance of insulin, inhibit the release of glucose in the liver, and promote the absorption and utilization of glucose by peripheral tissues. In addition to weight loss helping to control type 2 diabetes, Dr. Hsu Hui-heng, president of the Diabetes Society of the Republic of China and vice president of Taichung Veterans General Hospital, said that stable control of blood sugar has always been an important key to diabetes treatment.

Failure to properly control blood sugar will cause vascular diseases. Large blood vessels include myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease, cerebral stroke, and peripheral artery obstruction. Small blood vessels may cause neuropathy, fundus lesions causing retinal hemorrhage, and kidney lesions. Severe cases may even require dialysis.

The new sugar-excretion drug can excrete more than 300 calories per day.

New sugar-removing drug approved for use can remove more than 300 calories per day

Traditional glucose-lowering drugs mostly increase the utilization of sugar in the body by helping insulin secretion or reducing insulin resistance. Some of these traditional glucose-lowering drugs can easily make people gain weight and cause the risk of hypoglycemia. There are new sugar-excretion drugs available. Taking one pill a day can block the main glucose reabsorption mechanism in the kidneys, allowing the body to excrete an average of about 78 grams of glucose from the urine every day (approximately equivalent to 312 calories), thereby achieving the effect of controlling blood sugar.

The Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) of the Ministry of Health and Welfare approved a new sugar-reducing drug in mid-November. The results of clinical studies showed that the drug can effectively lower blood sugar levels and reduce body weight when used in combination with current conventional medications or alone. One pill a day can help patients directly eliminate the calories of about one soft-serve ice cream.

【Doctor's Tips】:

Dr. Jiang Zhuying from the Department of Metabolism at Yadong Hospital said that in addition to helping diabetic patients who are afraid of trouble and have irregular lifestyles to actively control blood sugar, the new sugar-excretion drugs are also suitable for diabetic patients who have poor weight management. However, sugar-excreting drugs have a diuretic effect, reminding users to drink plenty of water to eliminate sugar and avoid urinary tract infections; and patients with a renal function index eGFR below 45 are not recommended to use them.