Healthy Life and Weight Loss Tips

A doctor has diagnosed you as a diabetic. You are very well aware about precautions to be taken, but you want to live happy, healthy and prosperous life. You want to enjoy your remaining life, as you enjoyed the earlier part of it. Is it possible to enjoy the life with diabetes? Who will help you to achieve this goal? How to follow restrictions on foods that you like to eat? Well, the answer of all these questions is a resounding yes you can have a normal and happy life. Thanks to low carbohydrate diets. Here is how you follow a low carbohydrate diet to live happy diabetic life.

Diabetes is related to the sugar level in your blood. Increase in this level is one of the causes of diabetes. If you consume foods containing high carbohydrates your blood sugar level rises. Therefore it is your responsibility to maintain sugar levels at normal levels. With the help of medication, exercise and a proper diet you can control your blood sugar level. This process is known as management of blood sugar. The disease is classified into three types-type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes.

The pancreas in our body produces insulin, which helps to produce glucose. In type 1 diabetes, the pancreas is not able to produce sufficient amount of insulin or no insulin at all. Therefore, it’s necessary to take insulin for a type 1 diabetic person. Type 2 diabetes is generally related to obesity. In type 2 diabetes, our body does not produce sufficient amount of insulin or the body cells refuse insulin. And gestational diabetes is generally found in women during their pregnancies. The reasons can be hormones released during pregnancy or inadequate amount of insulin produced by the body.

In all three types of diabetes it is the ratio of insulin and glucose that causes several symptoms and complications. So it’s necessary to maintain that ratio. Diabetes medication includes insulin. So, what about glucose or blood sugar? Well, it’s possible to control the blood sugar level by controlling the carbohydrate intake. The source of glucose in our body is carbohydrates. Our body converts carbohydrates into glucose. Obviously, you can control glucose by controlling the intake of carbohydrates. A low carbohydrate diet for diabetes is based on this very concept.

A low carbohydrate diet for diabetes allows eating foods containing lower amount of carbohydrates. It helps to reduce blood sugar. The limit of carbohydrate intake is around 20 grams in a day. This calls for carbohydrate counting. You can consume low carbohydrates basically from green vegetable and salads. Low carbohydrate diet does not restrict foods that you like to eat including meat, fish, eggs and seafood. You can enjoy these foods and keep your diet as tasty as it was earlier. You need not to give up these foods, but you should not forget the permitted amount of intake. While controlling the blood sugar level, it also provides sufficient amount of proteins and fats. It also provides calories. If you have type 2 diabetes low carb diet will also help you lose weight.

These days there are many companies which manufacture food products following the low carbohydrate diet concept. There are varieties of foods from beverages to tasty meals for you to choose from.

Diabetes is not the end of the world, so go ahead and enjoy your life.

Recently on ABC World News Charlie Gibson did a story that kind of surprised me. He announced to his audience that Diabetes has become an epidemic in the U.S.-NO ****!!

I am just one little diabetic that started a website to share my experiences with others and share that knowledge and in the process learn more about this terrible disease. I have been calling it an epidemic for a year now. It is so obvious. C’mon ABC tell us something we don’t know.

Diabetes is a disease that affects 7% or 21 Million Americans and claims 240 million victims worldwide. Type 2 Diabetes is the biggest portion of those at 95 %. Another 14 million Americans have pre-diabetes where their blood sugars are elevated but below Diabetic levels.
Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism–the way our bodies use digested food for growth and energy. Most of the food we eat is broken down into glucose, the form of sugar in the blood. Glucose is the main source of fuel for the body.

For those who already have some risk factors such as a family history of it type 2 Diabetes is largely caused by elements in your lifestyle such as overeating and being overweight. Unless you have been hiding under a rock you already know that obesity in the U.S. is huge. GET THE CONNECTION? DUH!!

The story went on to tell us that the costs now in the U.S. are $116 billion for medical and an additional $58 billion in lost productivity due to absences from work. That’s a whopping $174 billion!! The U.S. alone spends $1 billion on diabetes research.

Whoa wait a minute-this news bulletin just in: DIABETES IS A WORLDWIDE EPIDEMIC.

In some countries, for example developing far eastern ones, Diabetes is growing much faster than it is in the U.S. largely due to western influences on diet. Folks all over are getting fat. Just got done ’skyping’ with a new friend in China who tells me 10% of the population has it. That’s worse than the U.S. at 7%.

I have this theory too that as we get more into the internet age we become more hooked on sitting on our butts surfing or working at our computers. This inactivity leads to diabetes as well. You want a story Charlie? Talk about that!

The ABC story went on to discuss how band surgery is becoming a preferred way to manage the problem. We don’t want to do the simple things like exercise and change our diet now do we? Let’s get some surgery. It is just another way to keep the economy going. Why change our lifestyle when we can have some surgery?

Exercise of 30 min a day 5-6 days a week and a weight loss of 10% are the commonly accepted ways to get control of Diabetes. Try it-it’s cheaper than surgery.

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Jack Krohn has had Diabetes, Pre-diabetes and Syndrome X for nearly fifteen years. He speaks from the experiences he has had during that time. He owns SECURITY SOLUTIONS a one stop resource that provides solutions and answers for all your self defense and home security problems.