Many people ask how to prevent diabetes because they heard from somewhere that diabetes is a dangerous disease if left untreated. Before wanting to prevent diabetes first understand what it is. Diabetes is a disease that causes wear and tear of our body in early age. This is commonly associated with Diabetes Mellitus, a condition where our body is incapable of using the naturally produced insulin. There are many associated disease with diabetes, some being diabetic neuropathy, diabetic nephropathy, diabetic. If your mother and father are diabetic, the chances of you getting diabetes is 90%. If only one of your parents is diabetic, there is still 25%chance. Diabetes patients have high levels of blood sugar level. It is estimated that more than 16 million Americans are already caught with diabetes, and more than 5 million diabetics are not aware of the existing disease.
Are you in the risk group?
Even if your answer is ‘no‘you can’t escape. Ones in today’s world you all are in the risk group. Our fast life style, eating out, fast food, snacking on chips, sweetened colas…the list goes on. Just see the number of chips packets and canned nuts you have emptied by the time you are done watching a movie. Even if you are a wise eater, does the risk ends there? Are you not stressed out? These questions are not to increase your stress but I just want to share with you the reality that in today’s world 70-80% of diseases are psychosomatic. Diabetes, high blood pressure which shows a shooting rate in the past few years ,the world over is to a greater extend psychosomatic, stress related. Many school children are depending on insulin injections. Not only because they are feeding on burgers, fried meat, samosas, pastries, sweetened colas on daily basis but also because they inherited it in their genes from their parents. Let me tell you how to keep diabetes at a distance and if you are diabetic how to tame it.
Follow a healthy balanced diet is the key for preventing diabetes.
‘Divide and eat’ is the major slogan for diabetes patients. I recommend that this should be the slogan of all who want to live healthy. Yes I mean it.
What is ‘divide and eat’ for the diabetic?
If you wish to have four tortillas/chapattis do eat two at your regular eating time and the remaining two after two hours. Have you ever tried this? Healthy eating is definitely not starving. Eat wisely. Your body requires energy. How it gets its energy? It’s through the food you eat.
Here are 15 more tips to prevent diabetes
- Avoid soft drinks, sweeteners, fried items. Have sugar and sweets lonely in fewer quantities.
- Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables.
- Green leafy vegetables are to be taken regularly.
- Avoid oil
- Minimize the intake of red meat
- Do exercise regularly. Exercise one hour or at least half an hour daily.
- Quit smoking.
- Drinking small doses of alcohol is a medicine, but I won’t recommend because the medicine, if exceeds the small dose is a poison.
- Do yoga regularly. Doing 30 ‘Surya Namaskaras’ a day is good. It keeps the doctor away.
- If you can spend weekly 1 hour for meditation your will get the power to get control over your mind.
- If not yoga you can go for satsangs [group prayers], bhajans, etc.
- Take plantain leaf pack for 35 minutes. The doctor will guide you regarding the number of times you should be dong to get benefit of the pack.
- Occasional mud packs will be advised by the doctor to correct your digestion.
- I have seen chromo therapy do work for diabetes. Music therapy and aromatherapy can be properly blended to give you good results.
- There are certain specific hydrotherapy treatments that work for diabetes. Please take them as per guidance of a naturopathy doctor.
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I read your blog,really its contained usefull news to diabetics.i think you will be encouraged to post a effetive thinks like these by the comments.
in my part i published some part of precautions for diabetics from the foot problems.
Diabetic neuropathy
Uncontrolled diabetes can damage your nerves. If you have damaged nerves in your legs and feet, you might not feel heat, cold, or pain. This lack of feeling is called “sensory diabetic neuropathy.” If you do not feel a cut or sore on your foot because of neuropathy, the cut could get worse and become infected. The muscles of the foot may not function properly because the nerves that make the muscles work are damaged. This could cause the foot to not align properly and create too much pressure in one area of the foot. It is estimated that up to 10% of people will develop foot ulcers. Foot ulcers occur. because of nerve damage and peripheral vascular disease.
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