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Don Francisco talks about the serious illness he suffers: what does the Chilean have?
Don Francisco celebrated his 80th birthday in December last year, and although the Chilean has his loyal followers accustomed to seeing him smiling, in a good mood and very healthy, the television host suffers from a serious illness that affects millions of Hispanics in the United States. United and that, if not taken care of, it can cause serious problems and even put those who suffer from it at risk of death.
Don Francisco spoke to People in Spanish and there he revealed that he had suffered from type 2 diabetes for more than twenty years, which gave a complete turn to his life, due to the severity of the disease and the care that this requires it.
“The truth is that it has always been very difficult. I probably did 20 or 25 different diets and they all failed. At one point they were successful and then they failed. So I first tried not to eat sugar and to try to avoid carbohydrates “, confessed the animator, whose real name is Mario Kreutzberger.
And looking for balance to try to control the disease, which causes increases and decreases in blood sugar levels that affect the system, Don Francisco confessed that he became a vegetarian for several years, after several failed diets.
“It’s hard to understand over time that diets don’t work, you have to find a way of life, a way of eating,” said the host, who turned his life upside down after a trip to India, where he -he said goodbye to red meat. “I liked the system and for seven years I was a vegetarian. But later, doing the “Travel Room”, I had to go to Norway, where I didn’t hear about vegetables and came back to eat fish and meat, and everything else. “
Despite his illness, Don Francisco says he occasionally tries to enjoy a forbidden taste.
“You have to make some presents … In my personal case, for example, I don’t eat carbs all week, except one day a week, when I eat everything,” said the presenter of the publication mentioned above.
The Chilean animator pointed out that diabetes is such a serious disease in which food consumption must be measured and recalled an experience he had 20 years ago with a team in his segment, “Travel Room”, which taught him that from then on you must be very careful about food and quantities to avoid aggravation of the disease.
“We all weighed ourselves on the airport scale and told the cameraman, the sound engineer [y] to the journalist who accompanied me: “I will eat exactly half of what you eat … If he ate a loaf of bread, I would eat half a loaf of bread. If he ate a soup, I would have half a soup … After fifteen days we weighed the same weight at the same airport and everyone kept their weight, except me, who weighed three kilograms “, he mentioned Don Francisco. “It meant I had to take more care of myself, because others didn’t have my problem.”
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