Diabetic Advice
March 8, 2009 by admin
Filed under Diabetes Diet, Diabetes Symptom, Diabetic, Gestational Diabetes, Juvenile Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes
Everyone needs food for energy but this does not always happen especially when a person suffers with diabetes. We must have glucose for our energy. Your diabetes will stop the energy and makes it stay in your blood creating many more issues. This condition makes high levels to accumulate in the blood.
This condition comes in two forms but only brief details are given here, The first type is called type one and primarily affects young people, usually called juvenile onset diabetes and is where the body completely stops the production of insulin,this can occur at any age but diabetics must take daily insulin injections in order to survive. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas that enables the body to use glucose to produce energy as it gets sugar into the cells. The other type of diabetes (type 2 or late onset) is not quite so severe,the body is still producing insulin but there is a problem with its production or use, but fortunately this type can be treated with a special diet.
Foods such as potatoes, rice, bread, pasta and fruit will be changed to sugar and create the energy to do our daily activities. Some serious conditions can result from excess levels of glucose in the blood including blindness, heart and kidney disease and even the removal of limbs. By sticking to a diabetes health care regime, most of these conditions can be helped,then many of the conditions associated with this condition can be slowed down considerably if not stopped altogether. It is possible to live a relatively normal life provided you stick to the plan laid out by your doctor,but this means sticking to your medication, watching your blood sugar, cholesterol and to stop smoking!
You will also have to keep your weight at a healthy number, this will also help your blood pressure. Once you have been diagnosed with diabetes, you will have it for life,in the United States there are reports of it affecting over two and a half percent of the population. The frightening thing is that it is estimated that at least the same number of people has this condition but just don’t know it yet,each year there are over six hundred thousand new cases. It is believed that as many as 320,000 diabetics die each year in America while only 34,000 of those actually die directly from the condition itself.