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• Living with Diabetes Successfully
  When exercising go slowly and gradually increase the intensity of your exercise routine. Exercise changes the way your body reacts to insulin. It makes your body more sensitive to insulin, and your blood sugar level may get too low during exercise (hypoglycemia). You should check your blood sugar level after you are finished exercising.
  
  
  • Basic Facts About Diabetes
    Exercise: We all should exercise on a daily basis because when we exercise we help our bodies to digest food better. Exercise is any activity that gets you up and moving. Sometimes the toughest part of exercising is taking that first step. There are different types of exercising: aerobic exercise, strength training, and flexibility exercises. Walking is an excellent exercise for anyone because it improves circulation and your mobility; it promotes weight loss and can even help you to reduce your stress level. Lifestyle: Your lifestyle not only includes your work, home life and what you do for fun but it also includes those health habits you have acquired like if you smoke or drink, use recreational drugs etc. Your lifestyle includes your eating habits and your risks that you take such as if you drive a sports car or bungee jump
    
    
  • Keeping Your Eyes and Feet Healthy When You Are Diabetic
    If your blood vessels in your feet are damaged you will not be able to receive adequate amounts of blood in your feet. Damage to blood vessels in your feet can cause you to experience numbness or painful tingling in your feet. A lack of blood supply can compromise your ability to fight off infection in your feet. This is why sores on the feet of diabetics often are difficult to heal. Diabetics should regularly check their feet for the presence of blisters, calluses, or ingrown toenails. All of these conditions can cause feet problems.
    
    
  • Monitoring Your Blood Glucose Level When You Are Diabetic
    Use a small notebook or a record book given to you by your doctor to record your results. Your doctor may also ask you to record the food you have eaten, and when you take your medication or insulin, and also to record your daily physical activity in order to see how these things affect your blood glucose level.
    
    
  • Preventing Complications When You Are Diabetic
    Heart Disease and the Risk of Stroke: Diabetics are at risk for heart disease and stroke. Smoking and a history of heart disease or being overweight will increase your risk for heart disease or stroke. Heart disease can be treated if caught early. Your doctor will test for the early signs of heart disease on a regular basis by checking your blood pressure, your cholesterol levels and by checking your weight.
    
    
  • Proper Nutrition For The Diabetic
    Proteins are found in meats, poultry, fish, dairy products, and also beans and certain vegetables. Try to eat more of the poultry and fish and less of the red meat. Do not eat the skin from poultry and trim any fat from your meat before preparing. When selecting dairy products use the non-fat varieties and stay away from mayonnaise-based dishes, egg yolks, bacon, and other high-fat dairy products. Fat-free versions of food will often contain carbohydrates or sugars so check the labels when making purchases.
    
    
  • Understanding Type 1 Diabetes
    Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. The immune system attacks the beta cells in the pancreas. The result of this attack is that the pancreas does not make enough insulin. Insulin is needed to help use the blood sugar (glucose) in our bloodstream. Without the glucose, our cells become starved for energy. Proper diet, exercise and home blood sugar monitoring are how those with type 1 diabetes manage the disease.
    
    
  • Understanding What Type 2 Diabetes is All About
    When you have type 2 diabetes you need to be concerned with other conditions including hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia. In order to control these conditions individuals with type 2 diabetes will learn about insulin, oral medications, diagnostic tests and how to manage and check the blood glucose level on a regular basis. Individuals with type 2 diabetes can develop serious complications of which they should be aware of so that they can prevent these complications from happening. The complications of type 2 diabetes include developing cardiovascular disease (heart disease), retinopathy (blindness), neuropathy (nerve damage), and nephropathy (kidney damage).
    
    
  • What You Can Do To Help A Family Member Who Has Diabetes
    These things are vital to do if you truly want to help your diabetic family member: Gain knowledge about the disease, have sympathy for the changes the person is needing to go through, be alert to signs or symptoms of diabetic complications. You can encourage healthy eating habits by eating with the diabetic individual and helping them to make wise shopping choices. Diabetics should be limiting their intake of fats and sugars and eating more fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and lean meats and fish.
    
    
  • You Can Control Your Type 2 Diabetes
    In order for your doctor to be able to effectively advice and direct your care, there needs to be an honest relationship between you and the doctor. You need to be totally honest with the doctor regarding your lifestyle and habits, which includes any recreational drugs, alcohol consumption and smoking. You can your doctor will design a diabetic plan management program that will be used by you when treating your diabetes. The plan will be based on physical exam, test results, and your input. You will be seeing your doctor on a regular basis. The doctor will rely on not only test and exam results but also your honest input when deciding any changes to your diabetes management plan.