{"id":13440,"date":"2016-02-06T13:30:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T18:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=13440"},"modified":"2016-02-01T06:00:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T11:00:39","slug":"how-type-2-diabetes-ruins-your-looks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2016\/02\/06\/how-type-2-diabetes-ruins-your-looks\/","title":{"rendered":"How Type 2 Diabetes Ruins Your Looks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Teeth_13436053_s-2015.jpg\" alt=\"How Type 2 Diabetes Ruins Your Looks\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9399\" \/>A few months ago, a report appeared in the journal <em>Preventing Chronic Disease<\/em> that confirmed one of the more unusual effects of type 2 diabetes. <\/p>\n<p>And although the report revealed how diabetes spells doom for your appearance, it\u2019s not out of vanity that you\u2019ll want to address this issue.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is there are simple steps you can take to prevent this from happening.<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago, a report appeared in the journal<em> Preventing Chronic Disease<\/em> that confirmed one of the more unusual complications of type 2 diabetes. <\/p>\n<p>After crunching the numbers of 37,609 people obtained from the American National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 1971 and 2012, they concluded the type 2 diabetics were twice as likely to lose teeth as nondiabetics were.<\/p>\n<p>In 1971, type 2 diabetics lost 11.2 teeth to the 9.4 of nondiabetics. By 2012, type 2  diabetics lost 6.6 teeth to the 3.4 of nondiabetics. <\/p>\n<p>Not only are diabetics losing increasingly more teeth compared to non-diabetic counterparts as compared to 40 years ago, the gap has increased to a margin of almost 2 to 1.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons why diabetes has this effect are not well understood, but it does seem to proceed via periodontal (gum) disease.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that good quality dental and medical care can help diabetics hold onto their teeth. For example, in 1994, the <em>Journal of Periodontology<\/em> printed a survey revealing that diabetics with better metabolic control and better dental care were no more likely to lose their teeth than nondiabetics were. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/health\/?page_id=530\">This means that it\u2019s extremely important to manage your type 2 diabetes naturally. Here is the 3 step strategy, thousands or readers have used to do just that\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, a report appeared in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease that confirmed one of the more unusual effects of type 2 diabetes. And although the report revealed how diabetes spells doom for your appearance, it\u2019s not out of vanity that you\u2019ll want to address this issue. 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