Saturday, August 18, 2012

How To Control Your Diabetes Better And Stay Healthier

By Graham Woods


If you have diabetes, you should know things like how much sleep you should get, what to eat, and how much you need to exercise. Use this information to win the war against this disease.

Anyone with diabetes should take time to educate themselves on how different foods can benefit or harm their health. While some foods help to lower blood sugar levels, others can raise them rapidly and cause you health problems.

Make your favorite comfort foods more diabetes-friendly. One of the hardest things diabetics deal with is the constantly restricted diet. Many people mistakenly assume that they will be forced to forgo their favorite dishes. Others may continue to eat foods that negatively impact their health. The intelligent solution is to make reasonable substitutions to your favorite dishes. Oftentimes, the forbidden ingredients can be replaced with acceptable options, making a meal healthy for diabetics, as well as anyone else.

Other conditions are sometimes linked to diabetes, such as sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is defined as a cessation of breathing while asleep. Sleep apnea causes you to be tired all day; if you have this symptom you may want to be evaluated.

A pedicure can be dangerous if you have diabetes. Foot infections are common in diabetics and therefore if you should puncture your foot, care should be taken.

Watching what you eat is of critical importance when you have diabetes. Different food affect your glucose levels differently, so you need to closely monitor what you eat. Adapt your insulin injections to what you eat. It is possible to actively manage glucose levels if you are careful about what you eat.

Diabetes does not mean you have to avoid sugar. Although you don't need to avoid all sugar, you can't eat candy and cookies all the time if you're diabetic. You can treat yourself to small servings of dessert on special occasions. Since eating sweets gives you added carbohydrates, it is good to lessen other foods that are rich in carbohydrates when you eat your special treat.

Be sure to consult with your doctor if you are pregnant and think you may have gestational diabetes. If you do not take control of gestational diabetes, then you risk your own health and also the health of your baby. Your doctor can give you medication that will be okay to take while pregnant and can also offer up sound advice as to what your diet should look like.

Changing your diet can be a great way to help lower your risk factor of contracting diabetes, and switching out fats and sugars with fiber is a great place to start. When you add more whole grains to your diet, you will reduce how much high glycemic foods you eat, such as white bread, and you should also reduce how much processed foods you eat because these will increase your risk. There are many studies that show that people who eat whole grains, and low-GI foods in general, get diabetes less often than those who don't.

There are many pieces of information that can help you in your battle against diabetes. This can be a large weight on your shoulders unless you take measures to take some of this weight off. Apply what you now know so that you can start cracking up those clouds.




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