INSTITUTE OF HEALTH: WORLD DIABETES DAY MARKED

ZENICA, NOVEMBER 14 (ONASA) – World Diabetes Day was marked today in Zenica with a free blood sugar and blood pressure measurement campaign and a lecture for students and citizens.
As part of the project “Change your lifestyle – Reduce the risk!” In the shopping center “Zenica City Centar”, a three-hour campaign of free measurement of blood glucose and pressure levels for citizens was carried out, as well as the distribution of educational and promotional material on the risks of developing diabetes.
– It has been 22 years that this day has been celebrated in the world, and it is the second year that the students of the Faculty of Medicine in Zenica have done it. In addition to this activity in the center, a lecture on diabetes was also organized, pointed out Anes Fazlić, local public health officer at the Association of Medical Students in BiH, otherwise a student of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zenica.
INZ nutritionist Maja Jonjić-Trifković points out that the focus is always on disease prevention, which is to ensure that diseases do not occur at all through healthy lifestyles and proper eating habits. this was also the focus of her presentation at the UNZE Faculty of Medicine, where she gave a lecture with prof. Ph.D. Larisa Gavran, and Dr. Alma Badnjević.
– A special topic is the nutrition of people with diabetes, as well as the prevention of complications, if that diabetes is well regulated, Jonjić-Trifković points out.
When it comes to the prevention of type II diabetes, as well as other chronic diseases, the focus is on the prevention of obesity, i.e. the intake of as little as possible of industrially processed food, as little as possible of “simple” carbohydrates, white flour, sweets, cakes, juices, carbonated drinks, with as much natural food as possible, food in its original form, along with moderate physical activity, which is a prerequisite for the prevention of all chronic diseases.
The head of the Department for Health Promotion at the Institute for Health and Food Safety in Zenica, Dr. Elma Kuduzović, noted that the Day of the Fight Against Diabetes has been celebrated on this day since 1991, and the focus is on early detection of diabetes.
– The motto of today’s activity is “Know your risk, to know your answer”. Every year, our activities are really accompanied by the discovery of cases with elevated values of blood sugar levels, where we further suggest going to a family medicine doctor and monitoring in order to prevent the numerous complications that diabetes brings with it in time, considering that it changes the blood vessels and nerves . Especially the case of long-term non-treatment, non-compliance with nutrition and therapy brings with it numerous complications, which are difficulties for the health of people suffering from diabetes, and thus also carries economic costs – said Kuduzović.
Diet, daily stress and everything that comes with the “modern lifestyle”, she added, are the cause of the increase in the number of patients, some of whom do not have symptoms of high blood pressure or blood sugar, so such people are particularly at risk.