Diabetes Information

Diabetes can be treated effectively with the co-operation of the patient. If you have a high glucose level in the urine and blood the first and most important thing to do is to control the diet. Cut down sugar completely if you are a clear cut diabetic case. This will bring down the sugar level to some extent, increase physical activity, do walking, jogging, exercises and if sugar is still high then probably you will need some medicine for the time being, but if you supplement the effort with controlled diet and increased exercise you can gradually cut down on medicine and be able to completely stop it in most cases.
In England people used to consume only 18 lbs of sugar per head per year (till 1850). Now the per capita consumption has reached 90 kg per head in UK and 80 kg. in the USA. Figures for other developed and even developing countries show an increasing trend.
Since the time sugar and white bread have been introduced the incidence has increased. These refined carbohydrates are pin-pointed as causing unprecedented increase in diabetes and heart diseases. On the food front — things are slipping from our hands. We have to gear up our energy and try to reverse the process by changing the food habits. The best part of diabetes is that even if you have it, you can have a normal active prolonged life if you keep tabs on your sugar level through regular checkups.
Diabetes can attack the kidneys, heart or any of the vital organs of the body and cause the end of a useful, productive and purposeful life. Since most diabetic are overweight, reduction in weight is advisable. This can be done by reducing the number of calories consumed per day. This will benefit to decrease the sugar level in blood. Exercise will be an added advantage as it increases the use of calories and reduction of weight will be faster.

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