The Great Importance of Diabetes Self Management in 5 points

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Joann


Most of the time, when we learn that we have diabetes, the last thing that comes to our mind is the importance of diabetes self management. We most probably think about this disease as the worst thing that could have happened to us, a heavy burden, an injustice of the universe, and all we want is eat without having to think about it, without needles, without medication.

Diabetes Self Management

Diabetes Self-Management

Or at least, this is what happened to me, 11 years ago, when I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I felt like a victim, and even the people who tried to help me, doctors and family, found themselves to be treated like foes. It was a hard time for me and my surroundings, and for my body, which I filled of sugar and anger. Until, a few years ago, I decided to change my point of view on the disease. I started, without noticing at first, a process of diabetes self management that changed the course and curse of my diabetic life. I found at least five points of importance in the changes that happened in me when I chose to manage my diabetes in a different way; by myself and for myself.

In Diabetes Self Management, we are our own expert.

It is an aberration when doctors think of themselves as specialists, and of you as numb clients who don’t understand what their body is going through. In reality, nobody should know better than ourselves what is happening in our own body. When we care about ourselves, we become aware of many signs that we didn’t notice before. It is the beginning of our studies of diabetes self management, and as time and experiences go, we do become experts.

When I chose to take my disease in charge, I didn’t stop to see doctors, but I started to read things on my own, and to make my own experiments. After a while, I realized that I knew a lot more on my case, my body, and my disease than I thought I did. And after a longer while, I realized that I had more knowledge and experience than my own doctors, and that I was my own expert. I didn’t stop to go to doctors, but I started to view a bigger portrait of the thing.

In Diabetes Self Management, we are not a victim anymore

Like I said, it is easy to feel a victim of what happens to us, especially when we don’t appreciate what happens to us. When we start diabetes self management, we stop being victim of the circumstances and fate, and we become more powerful. We start to take things in charge, and this is decisive in the control of our blood sugar level. And it brings us the the third point:

In Diabetes Self Management, we are responsible of what happens to us.

Diabetes Self Management

Self Management Diabetes

When we start diabetes self management, when we feel that we are not a victim anymore, we become responsible of what happens to us. Responsibility is vital in the whole process of managing our blood sugar level. We are responsible of what we eat, of our physical exercise, of the medication or of the medicinal plants that we take. We become the only responsible of our blood sugar level, whether it is normal or too high. And this make us more aware of our choices, and the consequences of our actions.

When we understand our part of responsibility in the treatment of our disease, then we start to take it seriously, and then we get serious results!

In Diabetes Self Management, we get results on the spot

And yes, instead of waiting for a doctor to let us know if we are doing good with our glycosylated hemoglobin, in diabetes self management, we know if we are doing well on the spot, right away. We learn to identify our symptoms of hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, we measure our blood sugar level often, to verify our understanding of the symptoms, and we know our overall state. Moment after moment.

This is something that all doctors of the world can’t do because they can’t always be around us. Not knowing how we are doing does not help us improve our condition. Imagine making a math exam and getting the results one year later: how can you remember the work and study you made? How can you know if you need to study more? The spontaneity of the results is very precious in the understanding of our disease and it does help us adjust our efforts right when needed.

In Diabetes Self Management, we are proud and happy and curious and proactive.

Diabetes Self Management

Diabetes Self Managements

When we start diabetes self management, we start to feel better about our condition, and overall, in our life. We start to take things in hands, we become passionate about diabetes, we want to help other diabetic people, and so, we become more curious, and proactive. Maybe we will make a discovery that can help others later, for example, when we eat this or this food, our blood sugar level goes down. And this is more precious than everything.

With my glucometer, I tryed different medicinal plants, foods, types of physical exercises, and I did learn a few tricks that helped me a lot. And I verified them hundreds of times. It brought me so much joy, feeling that I could make discoveries, that I shared them with other diabetics I know. And they turned in to be efficient for them too. Who knows if, all together, we can’t improve the life of many diabetics just by taking care of ourselves! And the we go, it can transform us from victim to hero!

So the advantages of taking care of ourselves, for ourselves, and of taking responsibility of our condition are numerous. For your own sake and for the sake of others, you may start to walk on the path of diabetes self management today!

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How to Build the Best Possible Diabetic Diet

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Joann


To build the best possible diabetic diet, you (the diabetic person, of both type 1 and 2) need to learn and understand your body’s needs, your emotional needs, the needs and obligations linked to your budget, schedule, age, tastes, etc. Your body’s needs are unique, but many people share some of them. Your age, your genes, your lifestyle, the physical activity you do, your beliefs on health all have an influence on your diet, your needs and your blood sugar level. Your emotional situation, whether you are at peace with yourself and others, your anger, your sadness will also influence your diet, lifestyle, physical activity, and health. Your obligations, family, work, commitments, your free time, your budget are also of great importance.

Best Possible Diabetic Diet

Best Possible Diabetics Diet

A good diet has to take all those factors into account so that the structure of the plan will seem to fade and become a natural helper rather than a hard obligation. It is important to be aware of all this, or as much as possible, when planning your diabetic meals. Then, the planning is easy: you only have to focus on health, joy and long-term efficiency.

The Best Possible Diabetic Diet Needs to be Healthy

Well yes, as planning a diabetic diet is an important part of controlling your blood sugar level, and the whole goal of controlling your blood sugar level is to stay healthy even though you are diabetic. So what is healthy for a diabetic person? Basically, exactly the same as what is healthy for everybody else! The diabetic person just needs to pay a particular attention to the amount of carbohydrates in foods, but as you will see, really healthy foods don’t have a too high glycemic index.

Even though society and alimentation have changed a lot in the past centuries, the human body hasn’t changed that much in the past millenniums. And so, the healthiest foods should be the ones that were eaten long long ago by humans, before they started to compromise their health with chemicals and transformations.

Whole foods, raw vegetables and fruits, soaked nuts and seeds, sprouts, all plant foods, of organic farming, those are healthy. One can eat as much full of life raw vegetables, fruits, nuts, and sprouts as one wants and be as healthy as one can be. All other foods (meat and animal products, transformed meals, overcooked and fried foods, sugars, etc), if eaten at all, need to be eaten in small quantities, or there will be bad consequences for health.

As a diabetic, the main concern about food is its glycemic index. In whole natural foods, raw vegetables, soaked nuts and sprouts, there are almost no carbohydrates. Fruits are sweet, but they are also lots of fibres, which slow the process of digesting sugars. Raw fruits are therefore the best possible dessert for diabetics.

All very high blood sugar levels come from eating processed foods, bread, cooked potatoes, pastas, flours, cakes, cookies, cane sugar, etc. Thus, adding natural and mostly raw plant foods, that detoxify the body, bring anti-oxidants, lots of vitamins, minerals, fats, proteins, lipids, and, last but not least, the so precious enzymes, is a very good idea for the best possible diabetic diet.

The Best Possible Diabetic Diet Needs to Bring you Joy

Best Possible Diabetic Diet

Best Possible Diabetic Diets

Joy is vital for a good diabetic diet (it is an essential part of any diet). Yet it is very probable that most people who will read this article are not vegan and raw eaters. It may be difficult for such people to imagine a raw and vegan diet that brings them joy.

Joy is more important than what a person eats. But for a diabetic person, joy alone will not bring health and normal blood sugar levels. So how to make sure to eat healthy and be happy at the same time?

By learning a few healthy recipes that please you (Internet is your best recipe friend), by adding palatable healthy ingredients to your meals, step by step, and by learning to like the ones that don’t seem to palatable at first taste. For example, if you like strawberries, add them as much as possible in all your desserts, until you replace your dessert by strawberries (and other fruits). And if you don’t like greens, add just a little bit of basil on top of your steak, then a little bit of parsley, and then a little bit of spinach, and then a whole bunch of alfalfa sprouts. All of a sudden, you will learn to love those little additions to your normal meal.

Eating is a pleasure, and eating healthy is an even greater pleasure! Learn to prepare meals that keep you motivate about health, and if ever you cook something that you don’t like, just don’t do it again. There is such a great choice of foods, it is impossible not to find the perfect great-tasting combinations that will keep you healthy, and happy.

The Best Possible Diabetic Diet Needs to be Efficient on the Long Term

It is of no value to follow your diabetic diet perfectly for a certain amount of time, and then stop. And then try again, for a few weeks, months, days, and then eat whatever comes to your mouth for a while. Stability is important, as is your health, and focusing on the plans that will last the longest, (for example, for your whole life), is the best health strategy. I have two rules of thumb to help you with the long term planning of your diabetic diet.

First, you need variety. One gets tired to always eat the same thing, so eating the most possible different foods will help you, and your emotions, and your body, and your blood sugar level, be healthier. Also, the more you try different kinds of vegetables and fruits, the more you are sure to fill all your needs of vitamins and minerals and enzymes.

And second, you need to give yourself permissions. Eating something that is bad for you is ok, once in a while. As long as it is not a habit. Eat bad things once in a while, and be happy about it, and you are sure that you will not need to over-eat your emotions later.

Planning a diet is not that difficult, it just needs those three factors: focus on health, joy, and efficiency on the long run. By understanding the body’s needs, by eating healthy foods, by liking what you eat, and by being human and not too strict, you are almost certain to find a Best Possible Diabetic Diet that will help you be as healthy as possible the longest possible.

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What is the Best Diabetic Menu?

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Joann


Most diabetic now understand that a diabetic menu has a great influence on our health. Being myself diabetic, I have studied a lot the consequences of my eating habits on my blood sugar level. I have come to a diabetic menu that fits my needs and helps me maintain a close to normal to normal blood sugar level.  It is vegan, mostly raw, and almost all ingredients are organic. I will share my “perfect day” menu, hoping that it will help others build their own.

The Perfect Breakfast of the Diabetic Menu

Diabetic Menu

Diabetics Menu

There are two perfect breakfasts of the diabetic menu, which I usually alternate every other morning. The first one is almost a litre of green smoothie, and the other a bowl of cereals.

A green smoothie is a fruit smoothie, as simple as possible, with one or two green leaves vegetables added to it. The fibres in the fruits and greens help digest the sugars of the fruits, and the enzymes of all raw ingredients help our pancreas do its job. Here are a few recipes. You may adjust the amounts to your taste: Spinach-banana-cayenne pepper-ginger, or cilantro-mango, or basil-pears-sprouted alfalfa, etc. Blend all ingredients with water adapted to your taste and blender.

My bowl of cereals is not just any bowl of cereals. They are whole, and sweetened by fruit juice. Or they are home-made, sometimes, without sugar at all. The evening before I want to breakfast with them, I soak a few of each nuts that I have for the night.

On the morning, I remove the soaked water, then I add chia seeds and dried fruits (cranberries, cherries, apples, blueberries, apricots, etc) and a little bit water to soak for two hours. Then, when I am ready to eat, I add the cereals, psyllium powder, cocoa and cinnamon, and nut or soya milk. It is a feast of delicious tastes, and with psyllium and chia, my blood sugar level doesn’t rise that much.

The Perfect Diner of the Diabetic Menu

For me, it is quite always the same: a salad. All sorts of fresh, organic greens, vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, all with delicious home-made dressings. No sugars, lots of fibres, vitamins, minerals, all perfect for a diabetic condition. I would give you recipes, but I think it is better for you to invent them with what you have. If you really want to follow a recipe for salads, please ask Internet, which is full of them!

I have been eating one to two salads a day for many years now, and I never get tired of it since there are so much choices of combinations possible… It is a joy to create them every day!

The Perfect Super of the Diabetic Menu

Diabetic Menu

Diabetic Menus

Most of the time, supper is the moment where I eat with most people. It is a moment where I love to share my best recipes. And so I eat many different kinds of meals, all of them with a low glycemic index, many vegetables, sprouts, nuts, seeds. A few examples would be raw or mostly raw vegan sushis, hamburgers, spring rolls, crepes, lasagna, and desert, once in a while. Raw cakes, with no sugar but fruit sugars, but delicious ones.

Those meals are more complex than Kraft dinner, BUT they leave us with great energy and perfect blood sugar levels, and they are absolutely delicious, and healthy on the long run.

Following this diabetic menu is sure to help you being a happy diabetic, without complications.

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What are the Optimal Diabetic Foods?

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Joann


What are the best diabetic foods to be eaten for the optimal control of your blood sugar level? You are diabetic and need to take medication, and that’s too bad. But it is not the end of the world, and medication can be minimized a lot only through eating, if not completely removed from your life.

Diabetic Foods

Diabetics Foods

For this, you need to eat what I call Diabetic foods, which are just natural foods that are about as good for everyone. Those diabetic foods will help maintain a low blood sugar level, and will also help the health of your kidneys, help the work of your blood, help efficiency of your pancreas, maintain your whole body in shape, and with much less toxins than the normal diets. Thus, your whole body will find it easier to deal with a lack of natural insulin, and you will feel naturally healthy.

I will divide the best diabetic foods to be eaten in three groups: the raw foods, the greens, and the complex carbohydrates.

Diabetic Foods Should Mostly be Raw

What is raw foods? Is there a raw hamburger? Can I eat raw soup, poutine, cookies, pasta? Raw foods are foods that have not been cooked over 42 Celsius degrees, and so have not lost their enzymes. Enzymes are of most importance in human health, and particularly for diabetics. If you don’t know about their important work in the body, please take the time to inform yourself about them. I recommend reading all books of the Boutenko raw family, and Gabriel Cousens.

So one can’t eat a normal hamburger, soup, poutine, cookies, or pasta that are uncooked. But those delicious meals have lots of raw versions, all more palatable than we could possibly imagine before we try them. Internet is full of delicious and healthy raw recipes. Take time to make them!

And meanwhile, just eat raw vegetables, fruits, soaked nuts and seeds, and add them whenever you can in your normal diet.

Greens are the Optimal Diabetic Foods

Greens are the optimal food for humans. Full of chlorophyll, water, minerals, vitamins, all with great tastes, greens help maintain the Ph of our blood, help the bones’ health, our teeth white and strong, remove from our body our accumulated toxins… All of this freely, without us noticing, and with no sugars involved.

Adding green smoothies (for example, spinach, banana, ginger and water) to our diet, and eating lots of salads with all sorts of greens is a must for all people. It is a feast to learn to appreciate all sorts of greens, from hard kale to spicy basil, from bitter dandelion to sweet wheatgrass, etc. All green leaves should be tested, loved, and added to all your meals. J

Diabetic Foods Need Complex Carbohydrates

Diabetic Foods

Diabetic Food

The natural sugars contained in whole cereals (rice, oat, barley, millet, etc) and fruits (all of them, but particularly mangoes, blueberries, avocados and small fruits for diabetics) are complex to digest. It means the carbohydrates are more slowly brought to the blood, which helps the pancreas calculate the right amount of insulin to fabricate, and needs less insulin anyways, because it is  burned right away by the normal tasks of the body.

Eating as much raw foods as possible, a lot of greens, and whole cereals and raw fruits (all preferably organic) is the best thing to do if one wants to help his/her body be well. Test it on yourself, step by step, and you will understand how changing your diet with those diabetic foods is simple, fun, and health efficient.

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What are the Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms?

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Joann


It is estimated that one third of the actual diabetics don’t know that they have the disease; it is therefore very important for people at risk to be aware of the different type 2 diabetes symptoms. Knowing them may help people diagnose the disease sooner and prevent many grave consequences of a long-term uncontrolled blood sugar level.

Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms

Type2 Diabetes Symptoms

(Of course, some symptoms are the same for both types of diabetes, but type 2 diabetes is the hardest to diagnose and touches about 90% of all diabetics, which is why we focus on this type.)

I could say that there are basically three types of type 2 diabetes symptoms:

The Every Day and Easy to Ignore Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms

Those type 2 diabetes symptoms may be seen as normal, or minor, as many people may have them without necessarily being diabetic. But the sooner a disease is diagnosed, the sooner it can be taken care of. That is why it is important to remain aware of all of them, and maybe to consult or to change some bad eating or lazy habits in order to make them disappear when more than one symptom is discovered and stays.

Among those symptoms, there are a bigger thirst than usual, especially after meals; a frequent need to urinate, even during the night; a bigger urge to eat, even when not necessarily hungry or after a meal; tiredness, more than usual, especially after eating; loss of weight, without trying to, even when you eat more; and feeling cranky, having less control on your emotions, sometimes without a link to what is happening in our life.

The More Intense and Harder to Ignore Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms

Those type 2 diabetes symptoms are a little bit harder to ignore, and are the sign of something not going right in your organism. It is the time to consult and to change some culinary habits and start to move a little bit more.

Among those symptoms, there is a blurred vision, or some white spots in front of your eyes, especially after eating  sugars; cuts, bruises, infections that heal slower than usual; tingling feet, hands, legs, or the urgent need to shake them to remove numbness; and frequent and hard to heal vaginal yeast infections for women.

The Almost Too Late and Impossible to Ignore Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms

Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms

Type 2 Diabetes Symptom

Those type 2 diabetes symptoms show that you didn’t notice the first two categories on time. It is not too late, there are still many things that can be done to improve your health and to go back to a normal life, but it is important to change some habits and realise the importance of the situation. We are responsible of what happens to us, it is not the end of happiness, but it is time to take care of ourselves.

Among those symptoms, there is diabetic neuropathy (tingling, numb, painful and/or swelling hands or feet); diabetic retinopathy (distorted or blurred vision, bigger spots (white, red or black) floating in front of your eyes, seeing flashes of light, or areas that look like cotton fibre or spider webs); chest pain or a short breath, which may be the sigh or blood vessel or heart problems. Severe problems with eyes, kidneys, the heart, blood vessels and nerves and unhealing wounds are all possible signs of type 2 diabetes and all need to be taken care of!

So for your own sake, please be aware of those type 2 diabetes symptoms, and remember to be more sportive and eat more greens in order to prevent many health diseases.

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What are the Causes of Diabetes?

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Joann


What are the causes of diabetes? For type 1 diabetes, there are many reasons involved, of which genetic, paucity of vitamins and minerals and deep emotional factors, but it is not too clear yet. Unfortunately for type 1 diabetics, this article is not about them. (Still, reading it can help both type 1 and type 2 diabetics with the control of their blood sugar level)

The Causes of Diabetes of Type 2

Causes of Diabetes

Causes Diabetes

The causes of type 2 diabetes are much easier to explain! And they are easy to reverse, too. Type 2 diabetes is only a matter of habits. Type 2 diabetics are responsible of their disease. Understanding the causes of diabetes is the first step to reversing the symptoms and making sure not to suffer from the (dreadful) consequences of a badly controlled blood sugar level.

Apart from some genetic factors, (which are not inescapable) there are two major causes of diabetes of type 2: bad food, and a lack of exercise, which both lead to obesity. Obesity is directly linked with the development of diabetes, as an obese body has more difficulty to accomplish its tasks.

Food, the First of the Causes of Diabetes

The first of the causes of diabetes is very simple. No matter what people say, diabetes is a matter of what you put in your mouth. It is directly linked with the food we ingest. Our eating habits have changed drastically in the past centuries, and especially in the past decades, but our body, our digestive system and our enzymes have not. They are very similar to what they were millenniums ago, and they recognize natural foods better than processed foods. A raw fruit or vegetable is very easy to understand and to digest for our organism. Its structure is simple, and the enzymes needed to transform it in vitamins, minerals, amino acids and carbohydrates know their job well.

But a hamburger with fries, a pepsi and ice cream with cookies is  something else entirely. Altogether, to be processed by our digestive system, this meal needs different enzymes which don’t work well together, need different acidity levels, and produce a lot of waste, just like our society. Fat, of course, but also toxic wastes which accumulates in the body and lead to a lot of problems, not only diabetes.

So eating processed foods, especially sugars, gives a great deal of unnatural job to our poor digestive organs, of which the pancreas, which gets overloaded. On the long run, an overloaded pancreas produces less enzymes, and less insulin. Or too much insulin, but the organism can’t understand it anymore, and so diabetes arrives.

A lack of exercise, the second of the causes of diabetes

Causes of Diabetes

Cause of Diabetes

The second of the causes of diabetes is a lack of exercise. Our body needs to move as much as it needs to eat. Physical exercise burns carbohydrates, and energizes the body, inside and outside. A lack of it is directly linked to a bad physical condition, and a bad internal system.

So understanding the causes of diabetes is quite simple. Knowing this, the important part is now to eat more naturally, and move more naturally. Raw vegetables and fruits, sprouts, soaked nuts and whole seeds and cereals are the best food for the human body. And, rather than sitting in front of a computer and taking the car all the time, moving, walking, running, climbing, biking, dancing, etc, are the most natural way of the human to live healthy, without nourishing the causes of diabetes.

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What is the Perfect Diet For Diabetics?

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Joann


The perfect diet for diabetics is one that will keep their blood sugar level from rising too high and keep them happy (to prevent any discomfort about the diet which would lead to bad emotional eating habits). All people are different, and need personalized diets, according to many factors, of which their schedule, taste, age, sport habits, budget, time of the year, etc. It is every diabetic’s duty for himself or herself to discover and follow their own diet which brings them joy and great blood sugar levels. But here are a few tips anyway which may help you build up this perfect diet for diabetics.

Rule number one of the perfect diet for diabetics: Remove the worst.

Perfect Diet For Diabetics

Perfect Diets For Diabetic

To  obtain a perfect diet for diabetics, you need to remove the worst from your meals. What is the worst? What makes you go high real fast, is bad for your health, and is unfairly trade: white sugar. White sugar, and other sweets like corn syrup and refined fructose and starch and transformed desserts, are simply not good. They taste good for a moment, then your breath smells bad, your eyes become small and you feel tired. Your whole body needs to work hard in order to digest and get rid of this sweet stuff that does not bring it anything good, except for the taste.

A perfect diet for diabetics will still eat nice and comforting foods, but they will be free of refined sugars, and be full of fruits, honey, whole foods and excellent desserts that feed and comfort your body too.

Rule number two of the perfect diet for diabetics: Add greens.

It doesn’t matter if you are vegan, vegetarian, or a McDonald eater. It doesn’t matter if you like vegetables or hamburgers or not, or if you have time or not, or if you are rich or poor. What your body needs, and craves for, and what does help maintaining a great blood sugar level, is greens. Spinach, dandelion, parsley, bok choi, sprouts, broccoli, anything that is green is good for you, and especially if it is raw. Adding salads to your meals is a must for all diabetics.

Rule number three of the perfect diet for diabetics: Eat when you need it.

Perfect Diet For Diabetics

Perfect Diet For Diabetic

To obtain the perfect diet for diabetics, you need to eat when you need it, and not all the time. Eat less, and chew more for a maximized experience of eating. Try to eat less often, and less quantities, and your belly will be better, and your energy will be greater, and your pancreas will have less work to do, and your blood sugar level will be all better…

Following those three rules, along with often measuring your blood sugar level, and making sure you like what you eat, is sure to help you maintain a long-term perfect diet for diabetics, which will lead you towards a healthy and fulfilling life.

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Cures for Diabetes

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Joann


Cures for Diabetes – Are There such Things

Cures for Diabetes

Remedies for Diabetes

Diabetes is believed to be a non-curable disease. That could be true but with all the advanced scientific experiments and the wide studies done on natural and herbal medicines; this dreaded disease can now be prevented. Cures for diabetes may not be attainable right now, but it may be in the future.

 

Cures for Diabetes from the Internet

There are lots of websites that promotes different kinds of diabetes cures. The sad thing about these websites is that most of them are not trustworthy. So the best thing for anyone to do is to make sure that they will read everything they see on the net and investigate further. Do not buy anything from the Internet without consulting your doctor. Some synthetic medications on the web do not require the presence of proper prescription. That alone should instill doubt in your mind. If it is that easy to purchase medicines for a very risky disease, then it could very well be a scam.

Herbal medication and some therapy treatments are also being advertised on the Internet. Herbal medications are safe alternative to synthetically produced drugs. But the same precaution should be practiced. Do not purchase anything without being sure that they can deliver and that their products are absolutely safe.

You may also encounter websites that sell books on how diabetes has been cured with an unusual treatment method. Though it could be true that some people can be cured from diabetes, their stories should be told freely and they should not be written in a book that says, the cure and the treatment can only be acquired if you buy the book.

People with diabetes need help and not some sort of faulty advertisement that can only bring about faulty hopes.

 

Cures for Diabetes – The Truth

As people have been suffering from diabetes since time immemorial, scientists have been trying to find the right cure. Sadly though, there is no such thing. There is simply no way to reverse the aging process of adults with type 2 diabetes and there is also no reversal for the beta-cell loss in type 1 diabetes.

The truth is, once you have it, it is yours. You can never get it out of your system.

 

Cures for Diabetes – Stick to Learning about Prevention

Cures for diabetes may not be possible, but prevention is another thing. Type 2 diabetes can be prevented through proper meal planning and regular exercise. These simple preventive measures need not be rigid. We already know that too much blood in the bloodstream may cause diabetes; so lessen your intake of food that will break down and result in more sugar that may get trapped in the bloodstreams. It is believed that metformin can also be used to reduce the risk of diabetes; you should ask your doctor about it. Type 1 diabetes prevention is currently being studied and undergoing scientific experiments by the pharmaceutical industry. They are trying ways on how they can prevent the immune system from attacking the beta cells of the pancreas.

I hope you enjoyed this article about Cures for Diabetes.

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I JUST FOUND THE CANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Joann


Being told you have adult onset diabetes is rough, and explaining it to your spouse is rougher, but after I told my husband what the Doctor had said to me, we went to the computer and looked up diabetes and that’s when I found the Canadian Diabetes Association.

Canadian Diabetes Association

The Canadian Diabetes Association

I started reading everything that is on their site, and I must say that it helped both of us tremendously to understand what diabetes is, what adult onset diabetes specifically is, and how to control my sugars. I learned, for instance, that it was not my love of sweets that had caused it, but rather that I was kind of “chunky” my husband calls me, and that if I got more exercise as well as taking the medicine that the Dr. had put me on, I’d get much better sugar results.

 

Learning Is Easy With The Canadian Diabetes Association

The site that they put out could not be better, for it is not only well arranged so that you can find the specific topics you want to read about but they also have links throughout the topics that let you get either further information or actual clarification on whatever subject it is. In addition, I thought it magnificent that they actually provide totally reliable resources for what is called multi-disciplinary healthcare providers as well as researchers. What this means is that even though their site is easy to understand for the layperson, like me, who does not understand medical matters like a Dr. or nurse does, healthcare providers can also utilize it so that they can study the practical applications of diabetes education as well as research.

 

Other Things The Canadian Diabetes Association Does

 

In researching their site, I also found out that they put out the Canadian Journal of Diabetes for those in the field that is absolutely brimming with healthcare information for healthcare providers. They also publish a quarterly publication called Canadian Diabetes as a guide for family physicians. It covers diagnosis as well a treatment of diabetics. And as if that were not enough, they also publish the Diabetes Communicator, which is a newsletter that goes very specifically to about 2,600 diabetes educators about diabetes and treatments and medical findings concerning diabetes.

 

The Canadian Diabetes Association Is Instrumental

 

They are instrumental in the education of anyone who is even remotely interested in diabetes for whatever the reason. That means that if you know there’s diabetes in your family and you want to learn how to tell if you have the possibility of having diabetes, they will hold classes near you somewhere that you can attend. If you are struck with the news that your young child has diabetes they will work with you even to the point of helping you discuss it with your child. The parameters in which they are instrumental in helping others with regard to diabetes are absolutely staggering. They seem to have as many answers as possible at all times, and if they do not know the answer to what you are asking they will go out of their way to find out for you. I do not know what I would do without the Canadian Diabetes Association.

 

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I DIRELY NEED RECIPES FOR DIABETICS

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Joann


When my husband was diagnosed with diabetes, just one day after that, I was on the computer looking for recipes for diabetics.

Recipes For Diabetics

Diabetics Recipes

The doctor had impressed both on my husband and myself that he could try to regulate his sugars with proper meals that had a good balance of everything necessary but to cut out simple sugars. The doctor also gave us a printout of what a diabetic diet should consist of, and it was definitely surprising to find that some sugar was still necessary in the diet. He counseled us to take a class in diabetes that would expose us to some fantastic recipes as well as pointing out what my husband needed to cut down on, but not eliminate thoroughly. Well, that was really interesting, and as said, I made it my job as chief cook and bottle washer in our family to make meals that would taste good, be appealing to the whole family yet still adhere to what should be eaten.

 

Literally Millions Of Recipes For Diabetics

It truly is no exaggeration to say that the Internet has millions of recipes available for anyone who has diabetes. I learned all about the Glycemic Index and how to make recipes that he would like but that were going to fit in the Diabetes Index. The Index has been formulated to measure what foods are prone to raising blood sugars, thus by mixing those which do not raise sugar much with some that raise sugar some and a very few that raise it higher, one can then make a recipe that falls into the acceptable range according to the Index. What they have done to make the Index is to survey the amount of carbohydrates that is contained in food and rate it by that.

 

Recipes For Diabetics That Follow The Glycemic Index

 

At first you will want to follow the Index and make meals that fit their recipes exactly, however because diverse foods affect some folks differently, some of it is definitely going to be trial and error. For instance one person may be able to eat a small portion of white rice without raising blood sugars very much, but can only drink a very tiny amount of milk as it raises their blood sugar. Another can drink a large glass of milk without sacrificing their sugars but can only have a tablespoon of rice or so because it affects their sugars too much. So following the exact recipes is great for beginners who wish to follow it, but you will also learn which foods affect your sugars the most. How things are cooked will affect some foods, for instance pasta that is cooked to a very soft stage will affect blood sugars more than al dente. Fruit that is very ripe will vary sugars more than fruit that is just ripe enough to eat, and so on.

 

Recipes For Diabetics Is Fine But Fine Tuning Is Best

 

Understandably there is no one “bible” for recipes for diabetics, and there is no one diet to follow, it’s a matter of balancing the foods that alter the sugar of a diabetic, so that nothing is ever eaten that will cause a rapid rise, so that whatever medicines are taken in conjunction with the foods will balance out, and that’s why testing is so important. So use recipes for diabetics to start, but as my doctor says, test, test, test!

 

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