One of the most common but the most feared diseases is diabetes. It’s feared and dreaded because it is very easy for the disease to get out of control and lead to death. If the US statistics are anything to go by, people are justified to dread the disease because the statistics show that diabetes comes third in the list of killer diseases in the US. The worldwide statistics regarding diabetes are equally shocking.

You might be wondering what leads to one being diabetic. Biologically, your pancreas excretes insulin to facilitate the normal functioning of the blood because it absorbs glucose, in form of sugar. There comes a time however that the insulin cannot match up the glucose and glucose will end up in your blood stream, and you’ll simply be referred to as a diabetic.

Once diagnosed as diabetics, it becomes part of your life. You’ll become more active in thinking only that this time you’ll be thinking about diabetes. You shouldn’t be surprised to find yourself chanting diabetes several times a day. You’ll start surviving hour after hour, and medication will become part of your day to day life. Be advised that the medication is highly probable to consume a large part of your earnings.

When you’re diagnosed with diabetes, your body will be vulnerable to other diseases such as heart diseases, kidney failure, blurred vision and blindness, nervous breakdown and infection of the extremities which might lead to amputation and the last thing to befall you once diagnosed with diabetes is death.

The predicaments begin with the prescriptions that you get for your condition. Note that these are just like any other medicine for another disease hence has their own share of side effects. Weight gain, skin rashes, respiratory diseases are few of the many adverse side effects that are virtually inevitable with diabetes medication. You’ll be overwhelmed by many Over the Counter Medications promising you instant cure to diabetes, but so far, no cure yet has been found. The cure lies inside you, you ought to control your diet and become much disciplined to stick to a diabetic diet, and change your lifestyle, that is if you want to live long.

One change of lifestyle that all medical practitioners seem to be in a consensus about is taking morning walks. This way, you’ll be taming your condition’s intensity. Change your diet completely, you might want to take some time to learn about a diabetic diet, what it should and shouldn’t contain. Ensure you stick to your dietary plan; this cannot be overemphasized because only your diet will determine how your recovery path would be. You may seek local treatments that will tame the escalating blood pressure, which should only be your hope at such a point in time. Thus, you shouldn’t be made to believe that all is lost, there is life after diabetes.

Article Author: Camile West

If you eat in a way that causes you to have a high blood-insulin level throughout the day, you put yourself at risk for most of what many doctors call the “deadly diseases of civilization”.

Insulin resistance, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type two diabetes, heart disease and many of the worst forms or cancer are all DIRECTLY LINKED in research to having consistently elevated insulin levels, which are DIRECTLY LINKED to having elevated blood sugar.

Eating in a way that keeps your blood sugar in a normal, healthy range makes reaching a healthy body weight and becoming vibrantly healthy much easier.

Eating Or Snacking On High Sugar, High Carbohydrate Foods Repeatedly During The Day Will Destroy Your Health And Here Is How

Any food or drink high in sugar or carbohydrates causes a sharp rise in your blood glucose level.

To stop rapidly rising blood sugar, your pancreas secretes the hormone insulin, which stops the sugar build up in the blood and brings the sugar level back down into a normal, healthy range.

Your pancreas making insulin to lower rising blood sugar is normal and healthy, but if you eat in a way that keeps your sugar level elevated throughout the day…

1) your pancreas has to make insulin repeatedly throughout the day, which means;

2) your blood-insulin level remains high throughout the day, and because of this;

3) over time you develop a resistance to the blood-sugar-lowering affect of insulin, which means your pancreas has to work harder and pump even more of that powerful hormone into your blood to lower your blood sugar… and this is where the problems really begin.

Insulin lowers blood glucose by converting the sugar in your blood into fat, so instead of having high blood sugar, you have high blood fat. To get rid of the fat, the insulin causes your body to stop burning stored body fat for energy and causes you to start burning new fat that started out a few minutes prior as a soft drink, candy or chips, a piece of bread, or anything high in sugar or carbohydrates.

Your body makes substantially more fat from any food or drink high in sugar or carbohydrates than you will ever burn sitting at a desk or puttering around the house. And all the fat not immediately burned for energy, is shoved into your fat cells, which grow, and expand, and get bigger and bigger, which means you gain weight.

Besides being the ROOT CAUSE of practically ALL weight gain, elevated insulin caused by not eating for blood sugar control, is the DIRECT and PRIMARY cause of most high blood pressure, most high cholesterol, practically all type-two diabetes, and so on.

Perhaps the best health tip and the best weight loss tip ever is simply to learn how to eat for blood sugar control… because when you do this, you naturally burn stored body fat for energy, you do not make and store new fat, and, in all probability, your blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides and other important health indicators will remain in a normal healthy range, without any special effort on your part.

On one level, being healthy, vital and strong requires only two simple steps;

1) Do things that help your body create health and vitality, like eating for blood sugar control, and;

2) Avoid things that interfere with your body’s ability to function at it’s natural, healthiest best, like eating anything that spikes your blood sugar repeatedly throughout the day, like soft drinks, candy, bread, rice. potatoes, pasta, chips, and so on.

Please share this information with your friends and loved ones. The information in this video, (see below), is extremely powerful and accurate. Put it to work in your life and I guarantee you will benefit.

In the video titled, Avoid The Blood Sugar Roller Coaster, which is video #6 in my free video weight loss series, you learn even more about discover how not eating for blood sugar control can lead to health problems and why eating for blood sugar control may be the best weight loss or health improvement tip you have ever received.

Article author: Russell Martino

A good friend and a cousin were recently diagnosed with diabetes Both had been treated for prediabetes over the last few years but neither took it too seriously and did not stay with the regimen that was needed. For example, instead of losing weight they both gained weight.

Diabetes is an insidious diseases but all of us can take steps to prevent this disease and help others prevent it also. Yes, it can be controlled with medication. Yes, the symptoms do not cramp your lifestyle enough that you cannot function as you usually do.

On the other hand, over time it is devastating to your organs. A simple way to explain it is that your organs (heart, liver and kidneys especially) have to work very hard when you have diabetes and they tend to wear out faster then normally as you get older. The results are often debilitating in later years and your quality of life is severely reduced as you age. It also shortens your life span.To properly understand diabetes you need to understand how the body normally processes glucose.

Glucose is the main energy source, the fuel, for the cells that make up your muscles and tissues. If you have diabetes, you have too much glucose in your blood which leads to problems. Glucose comes from the food you eat and from your liver. During digestion, glucose is absorbed into your blood stream. At the same time your pancreas also secretes insulin into the bloodstream. As the insulin circulates it is allowed to enter your cells, reducing the amount that’s left in your bloodstream. When the amount of blood glucose level drops so does the secretion of insulin from your pancreas.

Your liver stores any extra glucose, now called glycogen, just in case your cells need it later. When your insulin levels are low because you haven’t eaten in a while, your liver releases the stored glucose into the bloodstream to keep your glucose level normal.

When you have diabetes instead of entering your cells, the glucose builds up in your bloodstream and some is eventually excreted in your urine. Which is why your urine is always test when you go to a physician. This happens because your pancreas is not producing enough insulin or your cells are not responding to insulin or both,

These are symptoms of prediabetes, when your blood sugar level is higher than normal but not high enough to be classified as type 2 diabetes. The medical term for this is diabetes mellitus, the Latin term meaning honey sweet which refers to the excess sugar in your blood and urine.

People often think of diabetes as one disease. The fact is glucose, which comes from the foods you eat and also is made by your liver, can build up in your body for different reasons.

Type 1 diabetes develops when your pancreas makes little if any of the hormone insulin. Without insulin circulating in your bloodstream, glucose can’t get into the cells in your muscles and tissues so it builds up in your blood. In the meantime, your liver makes more glucose and also releases it in your bloodstream which increases your blood glucose.

Type 1 diabetes used to be called insulin-dependent diabetes or juvenile diabetes. That is because the disease most often develops when you’re a child or a teen and daily injections are required to make up for the insulin your body doesn’t produce. Today we know that adults can sometimes also develop type 1 diabetes.

Type 2 diabetes is the more common form. It makes up close to 95 percent of people over age 20 that have the disease. This type used to be called adult-onset diabetes. Another name is noninsulin-dependent diabetes. This term isn’t accurate anymore either because children and teens are now developing type 2 diabetes. One of the major reasons for this is childhood obesity.

In the mean time, consider one of the complications of diabetes: Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness among adults, ages 20 to 74 years old.

Article Author: Ruthan Brodsky

A normal blood sugar level is critical to maintaining proper balance within the bloodstream of the human body. Glucose, the main source of energy for animal and human cells is a form of sugar that is found traveling throughout the bloodstream. Glucose is converted into your body after you eat foods that contain carbohydrates. Glucose levels are regulated and maintained by glucagon and insulin hormones. Insulin is produced by the pancreas organ and is released into the the blood stream whenever a rise in the amount of glucose is determined.

Normal blood glucose levels have a range between 70 and 150 mg and are generally lower in the morning (when you wake up) and rise after food is consumed. Blood glucose sugar levels that fall above the 150 mg range are normally considered to be signs of high blood sugar, or hyperglycemia. Chronic or frequent low levels, falling below 70 mg. are indicative of low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia is considered a potential serious or even fatal condition if left untreated. Some symptoms of low blood glucose levels include (but are not limited to) irritability, lethargic (lack of energy) as well as the loss of consciousness. People who experience persistent or frequent bouts of hyperglycemia can experience diseases related to blood glucose – mainly diabetes which can result in damage to the eyes, kidneys and nerves.

Persons who experience symptoms of high or low blood sugar should take a blood glucose test which will measure the amount of glucose present in the bloodstream. Physicians who perform testing for glucose levels are usually checking for the presence of various diabetes diseases, including type I, type II or gestational diabetes. There are many types of glucose tests available. The fasting blood glucose test is administered in order to check glucose level amounts following an 8 hour fast. Normal levels for this test are considered to be between 70 and 99 mg. There is also a postprandial blood sugar test that is administered which measures blood glucose levels within the blood two hours following eating a meal. Normal glucose levels in the blood for this test are considered between 70 and 145 mg. Another type of test, called random blood sugar testing monitors glucose levels at random intervals throughout the day – independent of the time or whether or not meals have been consumed. Normal glucose readings for this test are considered to be between 70 and 125 mg. There is also the oral glucose tolerance test which is frequently administered to women in the mid-stages of pregnancy. With this test, glucose levels are measured following drinking a sugary drink which contains glucose.

Article author: Samantha Raynor