Diabetes overview
Here is a simple overview about how diabetes works.
Understanding, reversing, and preventing Pre diabetes
What is pre diabetes?
Pre diabetes basically means you have too much sugar in your blood, but not enough to classify as diabetes. This number is somewhat arbitrary, and as silly as it sounds, it’s possible to have pre diabetes or diabetes in the USA but not in Canada. These countries use a different cut off point.
Type 1 vs Type 2 diabetes
I’ve heard from people that type 1 diabetes is the one you are born with where as type 2 diabetes is the one that can get when you are older. This description is inaccurate and it’s important that we truly understand the real difference.
Diabetes prevention diet major concepts
We need to have a general understanding of nutrition and dietary prevention strategies when it comes to preventing diabetes.
Good and bad dietary choices for the prevention of diabetes
The most important thing to keep in mind when eating is to control your blood sugar. A relatively stable blood sugar is essential in preventing or reversing diabetes.
How Cardiovascular and strength training exercise help prevent diabetes
Exercise is essential in the prevention of diabetes. Both Cardiovascular and strength training exercise are important but for different reasons.
Natural diet supplements that may help to prevent diabetes
Not everyone in the medical community has completely endorsed this notion, but several studies have been pointing to some interesting effects that green tea and cinnamon have on diabetes.
Oral medication for Diabetes prevention
People with type 2 diabetes have 2 main problems regarding insulin.
1. They don’t produce enough
2. The insulin they do produce isn’t as effective as it should be “reduced insulin sensitivity”
They often take oral medication to help counteract these problems.
How drinking too much water can make you fat
How could water possibly make you fat if it contains zero calories and requires energy to be processed?
It won’t do it on it’s own, but drinking too much water can make you fatter indirectly. We all know that drinking enough water is essential for health for several reasons. Unfortunately, that makes many people wrongly conclude that “more is better” when it comes to drinking water. Drinking water lowers our blood concentration of salt and sugar. That is often a good thing, especially when those levels are too high. Let’s not forget however, that some salt and some sugar in our blood is a good thing. We need a balance and there exists an optimal concentration of blood sugar, sodium, vitamins, and minerals. The optimum blood concentration for these things certainly is not zero. Rest of Article »