How to Manage your Diabetes effectively

How to Manage your Diabetes effectively

Lifestyle changes of diet and exercise are extremely important for people who have pre-diabetes, or who are at high risk of developing type- 2 diabetes. The American Diabetes Association recommends that people at high risk for type 2 diabetes eat high-fiber (14g fiber for every 1,000 calories) and whole-grain foods. For appropriate diabetes management, keeping blood sugar level within your target range holds the key. 

Food 
Blood sugar level is highest an hour or two after food intake and then begins to fall. Try to even out your carbs by eating the same amount of carbohydrates at each meal. This helps keep the blood sugar level steady throughout the day. The changes that are required to prevent diabetes are not drastic -they are just modest and they have a huge impact on our blood sugar level’s rise and fall.

Alcohol 
The liver normally releases stored sugar to counteract falling blood sugar levels. Alcohol worsens glucose tolerance in diabetics. Diabetics who drink have a high risk for eye and nerve damage.

Weight 
Excess fat decreases the number of insulin receptors present in the body, aggravating diabetes and makes the body insensitive to insulin. When you are overweight , your body needs more insulin.

Exercise 
Both type-1 and Type-2 of diabetes can be greatly improved with a regular moderate exercise program. Exercise helps decrease body fat and improves insulin sensitivity. The utilization of glucose by the exercising muscles improves.

Stress
When you are stressed, your body prepares for fight-or-flight response in which the levels of many
hormones shoot up making a lot of stored energy from glucose and fat available to cells. These cells are then prepared to help the body get away from danger. This fight-or-flight response does not work well in people suffering from diabetes. Insulin is not always able to let the extra energy into the cells, so glucose piles up in the blood making matters worse.

Say “NO” to drugs...
During the last fifty years, many wonderful breakthroughs have improved our understanding 
of the role of food and lifestyle in our lives. Our immunity is a relationship between our own evolving and our world. The hurry and worry of modern life, compounded by improper eating habits, stress and pollution, is taking a toll on human health. Eating on the job, on the run, under pressure, denies us the experience, the purpose, and the role of food. Eventually it denies us our very lifestyle. Then we take shelter under medication, pills and injections that eventually become a vicious ordeal of our life.It is time when knowledge of the principles of diet and lifestyle should become an essential part of our education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent. And then, no one will look up to those bitter and unfriendly pills anymore.