How To Control Your Diabetes For Life

Friday, February 3, 2012

Here's what researchers know about controlling blood glucose (blood sugar) in people with diabetes: It's not easy, but it can be done. It takes hard work. And it can save your life.

 

An important new study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) shows that tight control of blood glucose can reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes-the number one killer of people with diabetes-by more than half.

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5 Ways to Manage your Diet for Diabetes

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Since my diagnosis with diabetes at the age of eleven, my own diet has changed dramatically.  I maintain my current healthy weight with a great diet/eating plan. If you do plan on losing more than about a stone in weight then I would visit your doctor for more tips on how to do this without risk.  

I've had diabetes for seven years now, but to tell you that how I maintain weight is perfect would be totally wrong of me.  However, I can advise you to follow my steps because I know what works and what doesn't. Before I really begin I must also say that I have been brought up by great parents who taught me to eat everything, and so I do! If there is something that you don't like, there are loads of other diabetic recipes and ideas that you will eat and appreciate.

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How To Live With Diabetes

One of the most dreaded diseases is diabetes. It is a killer disease and it is really very difficult to control. Going by the official US stats, diabetes is the third biggest giant killer among the deadly diseases in the United States of America. The global statistics is also mind-boggling!

First things first, how does a person become diabetic? When your body is unable to produce insulin that is necessary for its normal functioning, it becomes unable to absorb glucose (sugar). When the levels of glucose take a course to the blood stream, you become a diabetic patient.

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7 Steps on How to Prevent Diabetes

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Diabetes is more prevalent than ever and 95% of cases diagnosed are type 2 diabetes. Although for some the development of diabetes is inevitable, perhaps due to heriditery and other factors, for the vast majority it can be prevented by taking these 7 simple steps

Before diabetes type 2 becomes fully developed you go through a stage known as pre-diabetes. This is where you start to show some of the symptoms, which if ignored, can lead to full blown diabetes.

Make these 7 action points part of your daily routine and you could stop this disease happening to you:

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Exercises to Increase Blood Circulation Diabetes Patients

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Diabetes can cause hardening or narrowing of blood vessels in the leg so that it can lead to poor blood circulation. Poor blood circulation will make you feel cold, heat or pain. There are several exercises that can be done to improve blood circulation in patients diebetes.

When poor blood circulation occurs continuously, it is possible that patients with diabetes will experience diabetic foot disorders and increased risk of amputation and even death. Exercise can improve circulation and blood flow to the legs.
Here are some exercise that can improve blood circulation in patients with diabetes, as reported by Livestrong, Tuesday (11/08/2011):

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Recognize Diabetes in Children

Initiative of the International Diabetes Federation and WHO, is celebrated every 14 November as World Diabetes Day. It marks the anniversary of Dr. Frederick Banting who discovered insulin plays: hormone treatment of diabetes which saved many lives. Then, do you know diabetes in children?

World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, more than 220 million people worldwide have diabetes. This amount may be more than 2-fold by 2030 without intervention together. Nearly 80 percent of deaths occurred in patients with diabetic lower-middle income countries.

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Infants at Risk of Diabetes During Pregnancy

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Diabetes during pregnancy (gestational diabetes) is a form of diabetes experienced by pregnant women. Approximately as much as 3 percent of pregnant women found to be suffering from the disease despite having no previous history of diabetes.

Diabetes during pregnancy is typically obtained at gestational age 12 to 28 weeks and will heal after the baby is born. Although sweets are not the main cause of this type of diabetes, expectant mothers must be thinking of doing a healthy diet and activity during the contain to reduce the risk of this disease.

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11 Foods Control Blood Sugar

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Meal arrangements are the most important pillars for the treatment of diabetes. People with diabetes who want to learn to recognize certain wise foods that cause high blood sugar and try to avoid these foods.

Basically, diabetics can eat all the food like everyone else, but should be limited to contain sugar, fat, and sometimes high-salt foods. Important also watch the amount of food eaten.

Knowingly or not, nature has provided some wonderful food that can help control your blood sugar levels. The following are 11 foods that are good for blood sugar:

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Eating Red Meat Facing Risk of diabetes Type-2

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Recent research indicates, those who regularly eat red meat and processed meat products face a greater risk of developing type-2 diabetes.
This was the conclusion of experts at the Harvard School of Public Health after analyzing hundreds of thousands of data of respondents who participated in the long-term study in the United States.
The researchers found, by consuming 100 grams of red  meat non-processed every day, a person's risk of type 2 diabetes has increased by 19 percent. This figure comes after researchers accounted for age and body mass index.
Meanwhile, the habit of eating 50 grams of processed meat, like sausage or about two slices of bacon, can increase the risk of diabetes by 51 percent.

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Herbs for Diabetes

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Diabetes is a dangerous disease because it can cause complications in other organs, such as cardiovascular disease, kidney failure and nerve damage. For better and healthy life, we need to treat the body and try to keep blood sugar levels to avoid this disease. 

In addition to medically since ancient times many natural herbs actually used to treat diabetes. Scientific research has confirmed the effectiveness of some certain herbs to overcome diabetes. Here are some herbs that have been believed to help cure diabetes. 

1. Fenugreek

Trigonella foenum-graecum) is a plant in the family Fabaceae. Fenugreek is used both as a herb (the leaves) and as a spice (the seed, often called methi in Hindi). The leaves and sprouts are also eaten as vegetables. The plant is cultivated worldwide as a semi-arid crop and is a common ingredient in many curries.

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Low Fat, No Means Free From Diabetes

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Body fat is currently a topic of interesting discussion. Hundreds of scientific journals and health articles repeatedly mentions the dangers of body fat on health, including the charge on the occurrence of diabetes and heart attacks. 

It is true that excess body fat is dangerous, but it does not mean people who have little body fat will be free from harm. 

A study conducted by a consortium of international scientists found that a low body fat levels does not guarantee a person is free from heart disease and diabetes. They found the gene that causes low body fat is associated with an increased risk of chronic disease. 

Scientists say that people, especially men, who carry the gene type may have a low body fat percentage, but at the same time at higher risk for diabetes and heart disease.

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Food for Diabetes Patients

Friday, April 29, 2011

Diabetes mellitus is one disease that were common in society now. The number of patients even this disease increases from year to year. Triggers pankeas as diabetes is the destruction of insulin-producing (the hormone that controls glucose in the blood) or the insulin produced by the pancreas not functioning properly.

The method reduces the risk and severity inhibit diabetes is by adjusting the diet strictly. People with diabetes should consume foods that contain carbohydrates that are not easily broken down, not like sugar or syrup which has a carbohydrate that's easy to unravel.

Foods to be avoided by people with diabetes is an instance of white flour and rice, two of these foods contain high sugar levels. Foods such derivatives include donuts, white bread, cake, sweet cereals, white rice and French fries.

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3 Rules of Eating Diabetes Patients

People with diabetes usually have a tendency of drastic changes in sugar content. After eating, glucose levels will be high and some time do not get food intake, the blood sugar levels will be low. The schedule should eat regularly to prevent too large a range of blood sugar levels.
There are rules that must be remembered by the people with diabetes in managing the daily diet:
1. ScheduleSetting a schedule for diabetics usually are 6 meals. 3 meals and 3 kai huge distraction. The time schedule is as follows;

1. Breakfast (at 7 AM)
2. Snack I (at 10 AM)
3. Lunch (at 1 PM)
4. Snack II (at 4 PM)
5. Dinner (7 PM)

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Breakfast Diet Menu For Diabetes

Monday, April 18, 2011

Breakfast is the most important meal of the moment. This will give energy to do activities in completing your task until the next meal is lunch. Studies show that skipping breakfast will result in lack of energy and concentration as well as problems in managing weight. Therefore, eating is very important in order to carry out activities on this day. These problems about the breakfast may arise after someone is diagnosed with diabetes. A diet menu breakfast is the best solution for diabetics.

Diabetic diet breakfast menu to be very effective in enabling the type 2 or non-insulin dependent diabetes to live a normal life because it coincides with proper exercise and medication needs to be eliminated. Designing schemes such as eating, but can become very complex because of many considerations that need to be made. Breakfast should be able to provide a lot of energy without causing weight gain. This seems confusing at first because of foods that contain carbohydrates which are the main source of energy is also a major cause of weight gain. Finding the right balance can even become a big challenge, especially for people who never cared about their nutrition balance.
 

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Overcoming Type 2 diabetes with and without drug

Do you have type 2 diabetes? How did your feelings toward the use of anti-diabetic medication for the rest of your life?
Experience of treatment of diabetes has been exhausted, every day to eat the bitter medicine to control blood sugar. For some people, seeing and tasting the same drugs every day can create stress that may last a lifetime. One of the questions frequently asked by people with diabetes is: "how can we control our blood sugar without the help of anti-diabetic drugs?
Type 2 diabetes is a metabolic problem resulting from a very high sugar content caused by the increasing resistance of your body cells to act insulun. Insulin is a hormone that facilitates the transfer of the extracted sugar from food into your cells. Risk factors for the development of blood sugar problems include:
1. Age. The older the risk of type 2 diabetes are very large 2. Being overweight or obese

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Morning Sun Good for Diabetes Patients

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Morning sunlight was not only good for bone health, but also beneficial for diabetics. Vitamin D is present in sunlight can help improve blood sugar levels.

A recent study found that vitamin D is found the body when exposed to sunlight in the morning can help people with type 2 diabetes improve their blood sugar levels. Adequate vitamin D could actually help the cells in the body in charge of producing insulin work properly.

Researchers find participants who took vitamin D plus calcium whether or not to have blood sugar levels that are significantly better.
 
In fact, another study published in Diabetes Care showed low levels of vitamin D that can make adults at risk of prediabetes and prehypertension.

Besides taking supplements containing vitamin D and calcium can slow the progress of the disease
type 2 diabetes. Because of this relationship that allows the screening of vitamin D deficiency in people with type 2 diabetes could have been done.

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Stress Can Improve Blood Sugar

Monday, March 14, 2011

Prolonged stress can trigger physical and psychological complaints. However, for people with diabetes, stress can cause more harm to the body because it will spur blood sugar metabolism.

The physiological stress will cause changes in body physiology, such as hormonal disorders, immune system disorders, or digestive so chaotic.

In people with diabetes stress would cause the blood sugar becomes more rampant. At the moment we stress in the body will occur blood sugar solutions. That is why, in patients with diabetes, stress, blood sugar will be high despite taking medication for diabetes. The more feeling sad, the greater the tendency for diabetes.

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Type 2 Diabetes - Natural Ways to Lower Blood Sugar Levels!

Monday, January 31, 2011

Do you have Type 2 diabetes? Are you having problems with your spiking blood sugar levels? Do you want to know how to control these levels naturally?

But before going deeper into the natural ways of reducing your blood sugar, remember this word of caution: this article is not written for the purpose of exchanging your diabetes medication with some natural controllers. This is merely written to inform you about the natural ways you can complement your diabetic medications to have better control of your blood sugar level.

Now, are you ready to take the leap... are you ready to take a few challenges? Here they are:

1. Avoid those "bad" carbs: Who says you can control your blood sugars without avoiding the culprits that actually cause high blood sugars? Bad carbs are simple carbs. Simple cards tend to be digested faster resulting in high blood sugar levels (BSL's) and spikes. And so, in order to prevent your BSL's from increasing, avoiding them is certainly a requirement. You want to know what foods have bad carbs? Cakes, candies, cookies, sweet baked goods, white bread and jams are some of the most common examples of bad carbohydrate sources. By not popping these sweet treats in your mouth, you will find your BSL's will be a lot lower. And then you will lose weight, and then your BSL's will fall even more.

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Maintaining Your Normal Sugar Levels With Much More Ease

In normal conditions, the hormones which are responsible in regulating blood glucose levels are being produced in the right amount and at the right time with the help of the feedback mechanism inside the body. However, yet there can be down times where these hormones will not work properly and are not produced in the correct manner. As a result, when a person has a meal and then this causes his/her normal blood sugar levels after eating, not stable anymore. This could also be because of the insufficient insulin hormone which helps in regulation by converting glucose into glycogen. As a result the whole list of normal sugar levels inside the body gets into instability, where the levels may be lower or higher than the normal blood sugar range. When these normal levels gets exceed than the maximum limit, the person may have developed diabetes. It is so important for an individual to maintain his/her healthy blood sugar levels throughout their lifetime. So, the people who are at high tendency to develop diabetes should always stick into a regular eating pattern by which they can control their diabetes blood sugar levels. The normal blood sugar levels ranges from 3.6 - 5.8 mMol/L (millimoles/liter) and therefore any value within this range is said to be normal. These people should always and is recommended for them to measure their glucose levels constantly in order for them to monitor their internal environment constantly, so that they can keep track of their normal sugar levels. They can use a glucose level measuring meter for this purpose. Normal blood sugar levels during pregnancy falls under the category of exceptions. Because the normal blood glucose level in their body are different from other individuals. If you are experiencing the following symptoms or signs you may be diagnosed with diabetes.

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Type 1 Diabetes Treatment - Options to Understand

Type 1 diabetes and its occurrence mostly in those people who are less than 20 years old and that is why, it is also called as juvenile onset diabetes. It mostly occurs in a very young age like 12 or 13 years. Production of insulin is totally stopped due to this form of diabetes and this is the reason it is termed as the most severe condition.

Insulin can be described as a hormone and its production is takes place in the pancreas. The use of the insulin is very important because it helps to body to utilize both blood sugar and glucose and without the presence of insulin; the body cells are not able to utilize either. As a result for the sake of energy, body burns off the fat. This leads to the production of ketones in the blood. High level of ketones can result in death. Therefore a patient must undergo type 1 diabetes treatment in order to lead a healthy and long life.

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