How to prevent Diabetes has been a concern for many of us since we were kids. In my own family, my baby cousin was born with diabetes, so she had to have shots-injected once a day by my aunt, who just happened to be a Registered Nurse. Of course, while this many years later we have sub-lingual solutions, we have different levels of Diabetes (those not requiring shots included), and we have do-it-yourself daily blood glucose testing, for those with Diabetes or those with a concern for how to prevent Diabetes from going full speed ahead into full blown stages of the disease.
Besides my cousin on my mother’s side having the disease, on my biological father’s side, my grandfather had it. So my emphasis has always been (as it was taught to me) how to prevent Diabetes from setting in if you are genetically prone to it but don’t yet have it.
Is there a surefire solution for how to prevent Diabetes, though? Yes and no. Evidently, we can “delay” such forms of the illness as Type 2 Diabetes. According to such institutions and studies as NIDDK (National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases) and NIH (National Institute of Health), diet and exercise are found to help stave off the onset and symptoms. These findings are only reinforced by the additional smaller studies by organizations and institutes all over the world: from Finland to China, it has been found that at-risk people can slow the onset or fight the disease with rigorous exercise (with a goal of losing 2 to 7 percent body weight) and balanced, low sugar diets (with a goal of avoiding “trigger” foods). The sugars mentioned include, that is, sucrose, fructose, lactose, and other sugar forms found naturally and synthetically present in most foods.
In addition, from what I understand, Diabetes Prevention programs set up a regime that includes, besides diet and exercise, standard care and the drug metformin. According to CDC (Center for Disease Control), the studies applying such treatment/prevention measures found that participants who included a healthy diet, metformin, and moderate physical activity of 30 minutes a day/5 days a week, reduced their risk of getting Type 2 Diabetes by 58%!
I used to go every year but now go every two years to get a glucose tolerance test along with a general physical. And since I have Diabetes in my family history, the doc always admonishes me about “dumping great amounts of sugar” into my system. If I can conquer that, and walk at least five days a week, you can too!
Ann Marier
http://www.articlesbase.com/medicine-articles/how-to-prevent-diabetes-97981.html
Sodas are the last drink hyperglycemics should pour down their throats
They contain a toxic brew of sugar, caffeine and include tartaric acid, phosphoric acid, artificial flavorings and additives. This toxic mix creates a rush of adrenalin which increases your low blood sugar levels (hypoglycemia).
Drinking sweet carbonated mineral water regularly during the day leads to the body’s check and balance mechanism being unable to pause and work properly. You must not have a constant flow of insulin through your body during the course of your day.
When you repeatedly drink high sugar sodas the body puts out too much insulin and the insulin receptors of the cells lose sensitivity. The result is the pancreas pushes out more insulin. Too much insulin then grabs more glucose out of the bloodstream to send to the cells.
Once too much glucose is taken from the blood, blood sugar levels drop too low and you have hypoglycemia.
But it doesn’t stop there, if you make no lifestyle changes. Eventually insulin receptors are so desensitized that insulin is unable to send glucose into the cells. Your body now has insulin resistance – not something you would want to encourage. If the matter is ignored, eventually you will have an excess of sugar and an almost guaranteed chance of developing type 2 diabetes.
As soon as you understand the serious course hypoglycemia takes, the sooner you will do something about your low blood sugar levels.
It’s your body and only you can make the decision. You will need an understanding of dieting and hypoglycemia that will help you make the changes to your lifestyle. But, above all, you will need information that motivates you to persist in your new lifestyle changes because of the seriousness of where hypoglycemia can lead.
Another problem with carbonated soft drinks is the ratio imbalance of phosphorous to calcium which they create. In the 1950′s the typical American diet was about 3 to 1 instead of 1.5 to 1. But today the ratio has slipped to 5 to 1. This ratio is explained by the huge increase in the volume of sodas drunk.
Because there is no calcium in sodas and the body must maintain a balance between phosphorous and calcium, it leaches calcium from the bones. This decalcification leads to osteoporosis.
Today 10 – 12 million Americans, mainly over 60 years of age, have osteoporosis. This explains the high incidence of broken hip bones and vertebrae.
Another bone softening disease caused by the imbalance of calcium is gum disease.
As soon as you understand the serious course hypoglycemia takes, the sooner you will do something about your low blood sugar levels.
It’s your body and only you can make the decision. You will need an understanding of dieting and hypoglycemia that will help you make the changes to your lifestyle. But, above all, you will need information that motivates you to persist in your new lifestyle changes because of the seriousness of where hypoglycemia can lead.
Noel Glass
http://www.articlesbase.com/fitness-articles/hypoglycemia-and-sodas-hidden-rush-of-sugar-736506.html
The highly publicized oral ED pills that are declared to be the most effective treatment for ED, at times fail to yield results due to their side effects. On specific occasions, even though the patients are tolerant of the side effects yielded by the erectile dysfunction medicines, they fail to achieve fruitful results from the ED drugs prescribed to them. This is also true in case of the ED drug levitra. Levitra is one drug that is publicized to be safe for erectile dysfunction patients suffering from diabetes and heart ailments, an advantage that oral erectile dysfunction medicines other than Levitra don’t possess.
However, the manufacturers and distributors of Levitra are hopeful that people would buy levitra due to these specific advantages of the drug. And they are not wrong altogether. The sales of the drug have been proved to be quite satisfactory. In addition people are also eager to buy levitra online as there are no specific rules and regulations to be followed with regard to levitra dosages. However, levtira prescription has to be obtained from the doctor to free oneself from levitra dangers. It is also true that regardless of these specific levitra advantages, the drug fail to yield results on certain circumstances.
Patients suffering from erectile dysfunction who do not respond to the famous oral ED pills including levitra, are in quite a fix. Levitra and similar other anti-impotency medicines are listed among the most effective ED treatments. Their failure in yielding effective results for erectile dysfunction patients is actually an issue and a matter of worry. An alternative mode of treatment is really necessary for these people who do not respond to the PDE5 inhibitors. Today, there are quite a few ED treatments that are as effective as the oral ED pills. Certain surgeries, pumps, penile prostheses etc come under these alternative ED treatments that yield results for erectile dysfunction patients who don’t respond to the PDE5 inhibitors.
Trimix gel is another alternative ED treatment that is recently invented and altogether successfully tested in the US. This gel proves effective for erectile dysfunction patients who fail to trigger off results with the help of oral ED pills. Apart from this, Trimix gel is also equipped with a couple of other specific advantages.
Trimix gel is bereft of side-effects and clinical experiments make it apparent that it triggers off successful results in 40% men who fail to achieve erections necessary for satisfactory sexual intercourse with the help of oral ED pills. For this clinical experimentation, 42 men within the average age range of 55 and 17 were enrolled and as soon as this experiment came to a close, it became apparent that 40% patients achieved results with this gel.
The best thing about this gel is that it can be used by patients of heart ailments, diabetes, et al and also by those that have undergone prostrate surgery. In fact, men enrolled in the test were suffering from one or any other of these conditions. Thus it becomes wholly apparent that trimix gel has overcome a peculiar drawback of the oral ED pills and it is that some of the erectile dysfunction pills cannot be administered to patients suffering from above mentioned health conditions. Apart from all these specific advantages of trimix gel, it is also very simple and easy to use. However, one common aspect of this gel and oral erectile dysfunction drugs is that trimix gel as well as oral ED pills such as Levitra are prescription-based!
Sangi Tons
http://www.articlesbase.com/alternative-medicine-articles/trimix-gel-comes-to-the-rescue-of-ed-patients-not-responding-to-pde5-inhibitors-445482.html
Obesity has been a world wide problem, even as a silent epidemic in developed countries. Diabetes on the other hand has been one of the most difficult to treat human diseases. Put the two together and you have an endemic that would test the limits of science in saving lives the peril of obesity and diabetes.
Although not all diabetes are a result of obesity (and not all diabetics are/become obese), more and more studies have been developed to prove the increase in the percentage of diabetes disease as a result of excessive weight gain. As one of the crucial consequence of obesity, diabetes is the final detriment in the life expectancy of an obese person. How so?
Obese fat accumulations damage the cells in the body that produces insulin. Obesity and diabetes is a fatal cause and effect that also moves in a vicious circle. The already diabetic person would put a final tip in his health balance once he gains excessive weight. At the same time, the obese person would cut more inches from his life thread once he reaches the point of diabetes.
Clinically obese patients, once diagnosed are also already pronounced ‘pre- diabetic’, having blood sugar levels higher than normal, and if left untreated, obese patients would develop the full- blown Type 2 Diabetes in only within a decade. Yet the obese- diabetic should stop counting his years.
Studies made on obesity and diabetes produce promising results of treatment. And the cure is just as good as hitting two birds with one stone weight loss. It appears that losing weight doesn’t only prevent escalating obesity up to the morbid diabetes stage, but it also actually reverses the damaging cause of obesity to the cells that produce insulin. Obesity and diabetes are treatable; and starting the challenge is fairly simple targeting the cause.
In dealing with obesity and diabetes, the most important concern is the amount of weight gain that takes to develop obesity and diabetes?’ The key then is to determine the causes of weight gain and then reverse it. Soon enough, we’ll find out that the successful combination of diet and exercise to be the most likely answers to beat the worst human disease combination. Diet and exercise negates obesity and diabetes.
Attention to diet should start even from a very young age. In particular, obesity and diabetes prone (or generally health concerned) individuals should concentrate on serving sizes, required dietary allowances, and avoiding excessive sweet and fatty foods; the myriad benefits of exercise could not at all be overstated. The key however, in getting the equation right is starting and starting now.
Milos
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/diet-exercise-obesity-and-diabetes-74021.html
How to learn the correct way to test your blood sugar levels at home
Merry Christmas and wish you all a very Happy Healthy New Year!!!
During the holiday season especially during festivals diabetic people wonder what their blood sugar levels are and what they can do to keep it in control.
Lots of people have doubts about their blood sugar levels.
Some of the questions that people have asked me are:
•What should my blood sugar level be most of the time?
•How often should I test my blood sugar levels?
•What is the HbA1C blood sugar test and how often should I test that?
•Is there any particular time of the day that I should test my blood sugar levels?
•Is there anything else that I should know about blood sugar testing?
My answer to them is, “Learn to measure your blood sugar levels correctly”
How do you do that?
First buy a glucometer.
Secondly, after you have a glucometer. You need to learn how to use it correctly. It is a machine and if used wrongly, it will give wrong results. In my experience what you should do is read the booklet that came with the machine. Next take the glucometer along with you for your next appointment and ask your doctor to show you how to use it. After that you show the doctor how you check you blood sugar levels and ask if you are doing it correctly. If you are making any mistakes your doctor can correct you.
The importance of an HbA1C test
Now know how to check your sugar levels correctly.
Let me tell you the basics regarding the HbA1c blood test.
How often should this test be done?
This test is usually done once in 3 months for diabetics
What is the use of doing this test?
It tells your doctor and you the average blood sugar level during the past three months.
One of my patients had asked me this question. “Why should I do this test? I check my blood sugar every week.”
This was my answer: it is not enough to know the fasting blood sugar and post Prandial blood sugar levels because what I have seen among my patients is that just before the blood test for few days they eat correctly and when the test comes the level is almost normal. But when I do this test for them it shows a high value. This means that most of the “other” time my patient has high blood sugar levels.
Similarly your doctor and you need to know if this is what happens in your case and your treatment needs to change depending on such a result, or tomorrow a diabetes complication could occur and both your doctor and you will wonder why this happened to you.
When and How often to test your blood sugar levels at home
The next step is to know when and how often you need to test your blood sugar levels.
This depends on various factors and your doctor is the best person to tell you how often you need to test your sugar levels.
Newly diagnosed diabetics and diabetics who are not under control may have to test:
•Fasting for at least 8 hours(Before Breakfast)
•1-2 Hours After Breakfast
•Before Lunch
•1-2 Hours After Lunch
•Before Dinner
•1-2 Hours After Dinner
•Bedtime
•3 A.M. (in some conditions)
I have just mentioned the maximum that a person whom I would treat might have to test in one day. In such cases I usually ask them to get admitted and have a lovely nurse do the testing.
But on average my patients are asked to test three to four times a day till their sugar levels are in control then I ask them to test once a day.
But there are some conditions where you should test more often than normal.
Situations where your doctor might want you to check your blood sugar levels more frequently:
•If your diabetes medicine changes
•If you begin taking other kinds of medicines
•If you change your diet
•If your exercise routine or activity level changes
•If your level of stress increases
•If you are sick. When you are sick, even without eating, your sugar levels may run high, so testing is important.
Continue testing more often until you have maintained your blood sugar levels for at least 1 week, or until your doctor advises you that more frequent testing is no longer necessary.
Sherry Chandy
http://www.articlesbase.com/diseases-and-conditions-articles/blood-sugar-testing-what-every-diabetic-should-know-700949.html
