What Can Cure Diabetes?

Diabetes runs in my family. My mother's father, my grandfather, had it. Then later my Mother got it. She has been living with diabetes for 20 years and has lost a leg to poor circulation caused by diabetes. Click Here!

I have always been told there is no warning when diabetes begins to ravage your body. However, I have lately learned there are warning signs but they are not specific to diabetes. Therefore, most people ignore the symptoms thinking it is not important. Click Here!

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But please pay attention to this. The earliest sign of diabetes is unexplained fatigue. When you are so tired you can hardly move or when you go to bed tired and wake up tired and you have no reason for this excessive fatigue, you need to let your physician check you for diabetes. What Do Diabetics Eat

High blood sugar levels indicate your body is either not producing enough insulin or not properly using the insulin it is producing. This means your cells are not correctly absorbing the glucose and producing the energy your body needs. Thus, you feel tired when you get up and when you go to bed. Click Here!

Usually, this extreme fatigue is explained away and never related to diabetes. You simply think it is because you are getting older or you are working too hard! Diabetes never enters your mind. Therefore, most people live with diabetes for years without even knowing it. These years of untreated diabetes takes its toll on your body and leaves you wide open to becoming a victim of the complications of diabetes. What Do Diabetics Eat

Here are the symptoms: extreme fatigue, frequent urination, thirsty, blurred vision, frequent infections that are slow to heal, tingling or numbness in hands or feet, and weight gain. If you have any or all of these symptoms, please visit your doctor and check it out. Click Here!

So you have extreme fatigue and you have been more thirsty than usual and you go to the doctor to check it out. The doctor runs some tests and determines you have diabetes. The nurse explains how to take your medications if medications are prescribed and shows you how to check your blood sugar levels. You will be checking your blood sugar levels before each meal and keeping a chart to show the readings.What Do Diabetics Eat

Diabetes is a complex disease. Everything you eat and drink affects your blood sugar levels. You will be tied to a blood glucose meter, needles, and a chart for the rest of your life! Don't forget the medications either! If the doctor prescribes medicine, you will be taking pills for the rest of your life also! Click Here!

My husband is also a diabetic. He has been for 20 years and he takes 4 insulin shots per day every day, day in and day out. He has had to keep blood level charts showing his blood sugar levels and he has had to keep charts showing everything he eats every day, day in and day out. Sometimes he rebels and does not check anything. He gets tired of all the dos and don'ts. He even eats what he wants and will not listen to reason. What Do Diabetics Eat

All these dos and don'ts can be forgotten. You can stop diabetes. It is up to you. What is the first thing the doctor tells you after he informs you that you have diabetes? He says you have to watch your diet and you have to exercise. These are the two (2) most important factors that affect your blood sugar levels. Click Here!

All you have to do to stop diabetes is to eat the right kind of food and exercise. No one wants to believe it, because it requires a lot of effort on their part to diet and exercise. They rather take a pill. The doctor rather have you take pills. The pharmaceutical companies rather you take pills. If you do not take pills, they do not make money. Earliest Sign of Diabetes

Let me tell you! There is not a pill that will reverse the effects of diabetes. You are what you eat. Stop eating processed foods, diet food, diet drinks, and any food that is processed or is made from chemicals, such as sweet n low. What Do Diabetics Eat

One more thing! Our bodies deteriorate from lack of exercise. We have become a lazy society! We want fast food and a fast way to get it. We are too lazy to walk there and to spend time preparing good healthy foods to eat.Click Here!

I believe you can reverse diabetes if you eat the right foods and exercise! Exercise lowers your blood sugar levels and is good for your heart. Get up! Start moving! Eat more fruits and vegetables! Stop diabetes! Do not give up a leg or a foot to this disease! Earliest Sign of Diabetes

It is all up to you. You can take the pills and keep the charts or you can eat right and exercise and stop this disease! Click Here!

I know you are probably thinking it cannot be this simple. But what if it is? Isn't it worth a try? What Do Diabetics Eat

Take care until next time.

Diabetic Neuropathy- More Than You Want to Know!

Diabetic Neuropathy is damage to nerves caused by diabetes. These are the nerves that allow you to feel pain. The damage can occur in several ways, but all of them are related to the fact that your blood sugar levels stay too high for a long period of time. Nerve damage can be painful and in some cases it can be severe. Controlling blood sugar levels controls the pain. Click Here!

There are four (4) major kinds of neuropathy, and all others are grouped as "Other nerve damage." Click Here!

(1) Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
This type usually affects the feet and legs, resulting in loss of sensation in the feet and leads to foot problems. Injuries to the feet are hard to detect due to loss of sensation in the feet.

Symptoms include tingling, numbness, burning or pain in the feet or legs or both. Sometimes medications are required to help control the pain. Prevention includes controlling blood sugar levels, checking feet and legs daily, applying lotion if feet and legs are dry, caring for your nails regularly, and wearing proper fitting shoes at all times. Click Here!

(2) Diabetic Autonomic Neuropathy Click Here!
This type affects the digestive system, especially the stomach, blood vessels and urinary system. Prevention goes hand in hand with controlling your blood sugar levels.

Symptoms include bloating, diarrhea, constipation, heartburn, nausea and vomiting. Symptoms vary depending upon whether you have neuropathy of the digestive system, blood vessels, sex organs, or the urinary system. Treatment also depends on the type of neuropathy you have, but it can include eating smaller meals and taking medications. Click Here!

(3) Diabetic Proximal Neuropathy
This type causes pain, usually on one side, in the hips, thighs or buttocks. Treatment for weakness is usually required and includes medication and sometimes physical therapy. Controlling blood sugar levels is vital to controlling this type of neuropathy. Click Here!

4) Diabetic Focal Neuropathy
This kind appears suddenly and can affect specific nerves, especially in the head, torso, or leg, causing muscle weakness or pain. Symptoms may include: double vision, eye pain, paralysis on one side of the face, severe lower back pain, and chest or abdominal pain. It is painful and unpredictable, but usually improves by itself over time.Click Here!

(5) Other Types of Diabetic Neuropathy
People with diabetes can develop other types of neuropathy like nerve compressions. Carpal tunnel is a form of nerve compression. It causes tingling, numbness of the hand and sometimes muscle weakness. Click Here!

The key to preventing all types of Diabetic Neuropathy is to control your blood sugar levels. So be ever mindful of your blood sugar levels. It is far easier to never develop diabetes than it is to fight the disease once you have it!

Eat healthy and stay healthy! Click Here!

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Diabetes By Any Other Name Still Has the Same Consequences. How Is Your Blood Sugar?

I have lived for 26 years with my husband and for 20 years of that time he has fought diabetes. We have simply said that he has diabetes. We did not specify the type or anything more. To us diabetes is diabetes. Click Here!

Now every time I open a health magazine these days, I see the term diabetes mellitus. Have you heard that term? If not, you probably will be seeing it very soon. Diabetes mellitus has become known as (DM). It is the fancy name for diabetes.

Actually diabetes mellitus has become the universal language for high blood sugar. Millions of people have been diagnosed with this disease and this number increases daily. Because the number is so alarming, diabetes mellitus is getting a lot of attention from health experts worldwide. Click Here!

A rose by any other name is still a rose. Simply put, diabetes mellitus is diabetes. It still has three (3) types: (1) type 1 or juvenile diabetes is insulin dependent, (2) type 2 diabetes or adult onset diabetes is non-insulin dependent, and (3) gestational diabetes which occurs during pregnancy. Click Here!

My husband has type 2 diabetes and has been treating it for years with diet, exercise and medications. He has not been able to stabilize his blood sugar levels to the degree the doctor wants it and as a result he is now taking insulin daily. Click Here!

My husband loves sweets! He does not stick to his diet like he should. He buys sweets by the dozen and wants to eat all of them immediately. This results in mood swings and blood sugar levels that are out of control. The mood swings will drive you crazy. He gets agitated easily and is very difficult to get along with. Click Here!

These are a few of the signs of diabetes. There are more. If you have any doubt about whether or not someone you know has either type 1 or type 2 diabetes then watch for these signs:
* agitation
* frequent urination
* increased thirst
* weight loss
* blurred vision
* nausea
* fatigue

These signs can be symptoms of several things, but if you observe them in someone, it would be a good idea to get them to the doctor so they can be tested for diabetes mellitus or diabetes or whatever name you call it. The sooner it is diagnosed the sooner it can be treated and the patient can begin a plan to prevent the spread of the disease and its deadly complications! Click Here!

Gestational diabetes is more difficult to prove because the signs can be mistaken as pregnancy-related instead of diabetic related. Of course, one thing is for certain, the person must be pregnant to have gestational diabetes. In addition, if that person displays any of the above symptoms it is best for them to see the doctor and take an oral glucose tolerance test. The doctor can use this test to determine gestational diabetes and is usually conducted during the fifth month of pregnancy. Click Here!

Of course, I could tell by looking that my husband did not have gestational diabetes! Click Here!

Treatment for diabetes mellitus includes a healthy diet, regular exercise and medications, if necessary. Just be sure to work closely with your doctor to determine diet, exercise program and the need for medications. Any or all of these can control blood sugar levels and help stop the progression of the disease and its complications. Click Here!

Managing diabetes mellitus is extremely important in order to prevent complications of the disease which includes heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, kidney failure, eye disease, and death. Click Here!

Stop the progression of the disease! Living with diabetes is a challenge but is definitely better than the alternative! Just do it! Click Here!

Until next time…