According to recent studies, eating fish regularly reduced the risk of heart disease in diabetic women by as much as sixty-four percent. Women with type 2 diabetes who ate more fish had significantly lower risk of coronary heart disease and total death than those who rarely ate fish. Previous studies have found that fish consumption…
1. Eat regular meals. Ask your health care team to help you choose a meal plan. Your dietitian may suggest you eat three meals and a snack or two every day at about the same times. Eating every four to five hours can help control blood sugar. 2. Eat a variety of foods. Choose a…
If you are feeling any of the following signs, then more likely you have high blood sugar (or diabetes). * extreme thirst * frequent urination * feeling very tired most of the time * blurry vision * being hungry a lot * headache * dry skin * losing weight fast * feeling faint or drowsy…
Below is a list of the things that you should not do in case you have high blood sugar: 1. Skip your diabetes medication. Your medicines help control your blood sugar levels, and missing a dose could cause your blood sugar to be high or low, which can make you feel sick. 2. Eat too…
One of the greatest lessons one has to learn from this condition is to find out everything about diabetes. Knowledge is power particularly with this disease. Because people do not know much about it, the usual notion is to consider it as a grave disease. But if you dig deeper, it only becomes dangerous because…
HbA1C stands for Hemoglobin A1C. It represents how well your blood sugar has been controlled in the past three months. The HbA1C test is done to measure the amount of sugar that attaches to the red blood cell. Red blood cells live about three months that is why the A1C test shows the average blood…
Why maintain sugar level as close to normal as possible? To prevent long-term complications! Poorly managed diabetes can lead to a host of long-term complications: heart attack, stroke, blindness, kidney failure, blood vessel disease that may require amputation, nerve damage, and impotence in men. But happily, if people keep their blood glucose as close to…
1. Start with the proper diabetes education. Your doctor, nurse educator, or your dietitian can help you make a plan. But be choosy with your sources of information. Be skeptical with advertisements of promises of diabetes cure. 2. Reach and maintain a reasonable body weight. Being overweight can keep your body from making and using…
Those above 40 years old are at risk for type 2 diabetes, but we know that the prevalence in childhood is increasing because of modern-day diet and lifestyle. Being overweight and sedentary are strong risk factors for type 2 diabetes. Family history, such as having a parent or sibling with diabetes, increases risk as well….
Type 2 diabetes, formerly called adult-onset or non-insulin-dependent diabetes, is the most common form of diabetes. Many have it but don’t know it. While diabetes occurs in people of all ages and races, some have a higher risk for developing it than others. Getting diagnosed early is important because most of its serious complications are…
