Once you are diagnosed with diabetes, it is critically important to control diabetes. You should have to be very careful in dealing with diabetes as it can lead to many other complications. It is likely that diabetes can affect your eyes, kidney, heart, nervous system and brain.
It is critically important to control diabetes. Controlling diabetes means you have lesser risks of complications. Controlling diabetes means you are less likely to suffer from the complications arising out of diabetes. Controlling diabetes means lowering the risk of damage to the kidney, brain and eye.
Controlling diabetes means controlling the glucose level in the body. You have to maintain the right levels of your glucose, neither high nor low. Once you are found to be diabetic, you have to go for regular check ups, preferably once a week.
If you are traced with diabetes, it is better to be under the guidance of a physician as he may help you to maintain the right glucose levels. Do not try to treat diabetes on your own as it can only complicate matters.
An important aspect in controlling diabetes is to maintain proper diet. Always maintain a healthy eating habit, which helps in controlling diabetes. Do not go for heavy meals and instead cut short the meals into five or six smaller meals. Go for leafy vegetables and let your food be a balanced one with the right nutrients, vitamins and carbohydrates.
Along with a proper diet, exercise is also an important factor that helps in controlling diabetes. Exercise helps in the speedy dispose of excess glucose from the body.
Well, it is critically important to control diabetes. Once diagnosed as diabetic, you should have to critically control it or you are liable to come across many health complications.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
Treating Diabetes Effectively
People are now much concerned of being diabetic. It is that no one can now ignore the fact that more and more people are becoming diabetic every day. Once you are diagnosed with diabetes, it is better to start treating it without further delay.
Treating diabetes does not mean taking diabetes pills or insulin injections. The first thing towards treating diabetes is to understand what diabetes is. Get know all aspects of this killer disease in all its ramifications. Know all the complications regarding diabetes. Knowing diabetes better is the first step towards treating diabetes.
The most important thing is to keep the blood sugar levels under control. You have to regularly monitor your blood sugar level. This will help you to check if your body is responding to the medications. It is better to check the blood sugar levels every day and if not check it once in two days.
Taking tablets or injecting insulin does not mean that you will have control over the blood sugar. A healthy life style combined with a perfect diet plan and good exercise helps in controlling the sugar levels.
Your body gets glucose from the food that you take so it is necessary to control the food that you eat. Instead of taking heavy meals, go for smaller meals. Eat only a balanced diet that contains the necessary proteins, fats and carbohydrates. You have to add more of fibres and vegetables in your diet. It is also better to reduce the alcohol consumption.
Well, once you have control over your glucose intake, the next thing is to maintain it. Exercise burns the glucose that you take and helps in maintaining your glucose level. It is said that exercise helps in keeping the body weight under control, which means you only have the required glucose level. Walking is a very good exercise.
Treating diabetes does not mean taking diabetes pills or insulin injections. The first thing towards treating diabetes is to understand what diabetes is. Get know all aspects of this killer disease in all its ramifications. Know all the complications regarding diabetes. Knowing diabetes better is the first step towards treating diabetes.
The most important thing is to keep the blood sugar levels under control. You have to regularly monitor your blood sugar level. This will help you to check if your body is responding to the medications. It is better to check the blood sugar levels every day and if not check it once in two days.
Taking tablets or injecting insulin does not mean that you will have control over the blood sugar. A healthy life style combined with a perfect diet plan and good exercise helps in controlling the sugar levels.
Your body gets glucose from the food that you take so it is necessary to control the food that you eat. Instead of taking heavy meals, go for smaller meals. Eat only a balanced diet that contains the necessary proteins, fats and carbohydrates. You have to add more of fibres and vegetables in your diet. It is also better to reduce the alcohol consumption.
Well, once you have control over your glucose intake, the next thing is to maintain it. Exercise burns the glucose that you take and helps in maintaining your glucose level. It is said that exercise helps in keeping the body weight under control, which means you only have the required glucose level. Walking is a very good exercise.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Let Diabetic persons think they are one among you
Diabetes is considered to be a killer disease. A life long disease, diabetes apart from affecting physically has great many social and psychological effects on the patient. The effects can be minor ones to major ones. Every one is liable to the social and psychological effect of diabetes.
It is quite natural that a person, whether he is young, adult or old, is liable to have psychological distress on discovering they have diabetes. The discovery that they have diabetes can be quite shocking to them and can lead to anxiety and depression.
Depression is the main effect of diabetes. A diabetic person loses interest in everything and even in their life. They feel dejected in life and tend to move away from others. They always seem to be gloomy and feel of having lost faith in everything. Well, depression in diabetic is often unrecognised and not treated.
A diabetic person may also feel that he or she is worse than others and it affects his or her self-esteem. This can affect relations and also worsen his friendship and family life.
Diabetes is known to affect sex. Well, sometimes diabetic persons may feel sad about their sexual life and as such it can have an adverse impact on their family relations.
Well, diabetic persons need lots of support from the family and friends. They should not feel that they are alone in this world. Let them know that they are one among all in this world.
It is quite natural that a person, whether he is young, adult or old, is liable to have psychological distress on discovering they have diabetes. The discovery that they have diabetes can be quite shocking to them and can lead to anxiety and depression.
Depression is the main effect of diabetes. A diabetic person loses interest in everything and even in their life. They feel dejected in life and tend to move away from others. They always seem to be gloomy and feel of having lost faith in everything. Well, depression in diabetic is often unrecognised and not treated.
A diabetic person may also feel that he or she is worse than others and it affects his or her self-esteem. This can affect relations and also worsen his friendship and family life.
Diabetes is known to affect sex. Well, sometimes diabetic persons may feel sad about their sexual life and as such it can have an adverse impact on their family relations.
Well, diabetic persons need lots of support from the family and friends. They should not feel that they are alone in this world. Let them know that they are one among all in this world.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Long/short Sleepers at higher risk for diabetes
A recent study has revealed that long and short sleepers are at higher risk for diabetes. The study was presented at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.
Girardin Jean-Louis, who is an associate professor at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center at the Brooklyn Health Disparities Research Center in New York, has said that the findings throw light on the serious impact of sleep in diabetes. He says that the findings showed that both the persons who had long sleep and short sleep had a higher risk of diabetes.
The study was conducted on the basis of data from 29,818 individuals who had completed the 2005 National Health Interview Survey. The data was collected from all the 50 U S states and the participants were n the age group of 18 and 85. Moreover, 85 per cent of the individuals were white, 15 percent black and 56 percent women.
The study says that diabetes was prevalent in 12 percent of blacks and 8 percent in whites. The researchers also found that obese persons had more tendency to sleep more, which only increased the risk of diabetes.
However, the researchers say that more such research is needed to identify the link between sleep and diabetes.
Girardin Jean-Louis, who is an associate professor at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center at the Brooklyn Health Disparities Research Center in New York, has said that the findings throw light on the serious impact of sleep in diabetes. He says that the findings showed that both the persons who had long sleep and short sleep had a higher risk of diabetes.
The study was conducted on the basis of data from 29,818 individuals who had completed the 2005 National Health Interview Survey. The data was collected from all the 50 U S states and the participants were n the age group of 18 and 85. Moreover, 85 per cent of the individuals were white, 15 percent black and 56 percent women.
The study says that diabetes was prevalent in 12 percent of blacks and 8 percent in whites. The researchers also found that obese persons had more tendency to sleep more, which only increased the risk of diabetes.
However, the researchers say that more such research is needed to identify the link between sleep and diabetes.
Monday, June 8, 2009
African tea to control blood sugar
A recent study has revealed that African tea helps in controlling blood sugar levels in the body.
A team of researchers in Denmark has completed a four-month long clinical trial on 23 patients with type 2 diabetes and had said that the trial was more than satisfaction.
The patients who were given African tea, which are produced from the extract of Rauvolfia Vomitoria leaves and the fruit of Citrus aurantium, had shown considerable effect.
Researchers at the Copenhagen university, which had conducted the study says though the African Tea initially did not affect the sugar content of the blood, but had shown gradual progress. In four months, there was a significant increase in glucose tolerance, they said.
It was also seen that there was an increase in the polyunsaturated fatty acids in patients who were administered the African tea. When there is an increase of the polyunsaturated fatty acids, the cell membranes become more permeable, which results in the cells absorbing glucose better from the blood.
A team of researchers in Denmark has completed a four-month long clinical trial on 23 patients with type 2 diabetes and had said that the trial was more than satisfaction.
The patients who were given African tea, which are produced from the extract of Rauvolfia Vomitoria leaves and the fruit of Citrus aurantium, had shown considerable effect.
Researchers at the Copenhagen university, which had conducted the study says though the African Tea initially did not affect the sugar content of the blood, but had shown gradual progress. In four months, there was a significant increase in glucose tolerance, they said.
It was also seen that there was an increase in the polyunsaturated fatty acids in patients who were administered the African tea. When there is an increase of the polyunsaturated fatty acids, the cell membranes become more permeable, which results in the cells absorbing glucose better from the blood.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Psychological Effects of Diabetes
When diabetes is diagnosed it is quite normal to experience all the symptoms of shock and bereavement: worry, anxiety, depression, sadness and self-blame.
Depression is not generally listed as a complication of diabetes. However, it can be one of the most common and dangerous complications. The rate of depression in diabetics is much higher than in the general population.
There is some suggestion that the stress of depression itself may lead to hyperglycemia in diabetics. The interaction between cardiovascular disorders (such as heart attack and high blood pressure) and depression has been extensively studied. Anxiety and depression can also affect other conditions including irritable bowel syndrome, headache and skin diseases.
Depression is not generally listed as a complication of diabetes. However, it can be one of the most common and dangerous complications. The rate of depression in diabetics is much higher than in the general population.
There is some suggestion that the stress of depression itself may lead to hyperglycemia in diabetics. The interaction between cardiovascular disorders (such as heart attack and high blood pressure) and depression has been extensively studied. Anxiety and depression can also affect other conditions including irritable bowel syndrome, headache and skin diseases.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Overweight persons are at more risk of diabetes
An overweight person is more at risk in getting diabetes than a normal person. Well, it has also been see that diabetic patients who maintain their weight show better levels of diabetes and their diabetes is on a safer side. Moreover, these persons also need less of the drug to maintain their diabetes. This all shows how overweight is related to diabetes.
Overweight persons take more of the carbohydrates than what is normally needed. When more carbohydrates are taken than what is required, the rest is left in the body itself, which leads to more weight. Well, the insulin that the body produces will not be able to brake down these extra fats in the body, which results in an increase in blood sugar.
Well, a diabetic person should not go for heavy meals. It is better to eat more small meals, which helps in keeping away hunger. When a person is hungry, there is a possibility that he eats more that can lead to undigested carbohydrates in the body. Well, a diabetic person’s diet should be a low-fat and low-carbohydrate one. It is better to give up fast foods and fried foods. Add more of vegetables and fruits in the diet.
Along with a healthy diet, one has to do regular exercise to keep away diabetics.
Overweight persons take more of the carbohydrates than what is normally needed. When more carbohydrates are taken than what is required, the rest is left in the body itself, which leads to more weight. Well, the insulin that the body produces will not be able to brake down these extra fats in the body, which results in an increase in blood sugar.
Well, a diabetic person should not go for heavy meals. It is better to eat more small meals, which helps in keeping away hunger. When a person is hungry, there is a possibility that he eats more that can lead to undigested carbohydrates in the body. Well, a diabetic person’s diet should be a low-fat and low-carbohydrate one. It is better to give up fast foods and fried foods. Add more of vegetables and fruits in the diet.
Along with a healthy diet, one has to do regular exercise to keep away diabetics.
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