Recently, I was diagnosed with metabolic syndrome during a health checkup. Personally, I had never heard of metabolic syndrome before, so it was unfamiliar to me. Therefore, I have also made a plan to manage my health and prevent metabolic syndrome.
First, what is metabolic syndrome?
The causes are varied. If you fall into this list, such as abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high triglycerides, or cholesterol, there is a high likelihood of metabolic syndrome.
After my health checkup showed results for metabolic syndrome, the results sheet and a health management guide to prevent metabolic syndrome were delivered to my home.
This is my health check-up result sheet.
It turns out that high blood sugar was the causeㅜㅜ Usually, eating habits, blood sugar, and abdominal obesity are closely related.
And here is the delivered guide. It seems to have been issued by the National Health Insurance Service.
This is a brochure about preventing metabolic syndrome. I was really surprised when I saw it because there is so much detailed and useful health information about preventing metabolic syndrome available online, to the point where you don't even need to search for it! So I wanted to share it with you~
According to the brochure, metabolic syndrome is more common than you might think, affecting about 1 in 5 people. Please take a look at the checklist below and see if you might also have metabolic syndrome!
I think the problem was my lack of exercise and eating habits causing high blood sugar. I'm not hypertensive, but lately, my blood sugar has been high due to the foods I eatㅜㅜ
I decided to start by improving my eating habits first because I heard that simply changing one's diet can be enough to prevent metabolic syndrome!
Of course, it's difficult to change eating habits all at once suddenly. I started gradually by reducing meat and beginning to eat more vegetables and greens.
This is a healthy meal I made myself~
It's a transfer, but... haha, it's lettuce, beef pancake, and mushrooms.
And the booklet contains very detailed healthy food recipes for the prevention of metabolic syndrome, so I referenced them and tried making them~
If we go beyond just managing our eating habits and also exercise and moderate alcohol consumption to prevent metabolic syndrome, I think we could lower our risk level even further than the warning stage of metabolic syndrome.
I will do my best to prevent metabolic syndrome until that day comes!!