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Do people who smoke have a greater risk of developing pre-diabetes or Type 2 diabetes? This is suggested in a review of 25 studies published in the Journal of The American Medical Association. The review found that 44% of people that smoke are prone to developing Type 2 diabetes compared to those that don’t smoke.

While researchers are hesitant to directly link smoking to the onset of diabetes, they do theorize that smoking may lead to insulin resistance. Another possible explanation, people that smoke tend not to have the healthiest lifestyle. These unhealthy behaviors include lack of exercise, poor diet, and in some cases large consumption of alcohol.

We know that smoking is a cause of heart disease and cancers. Could it also accelerate the onset of Type 2 diabetes? Isn’t time that we all try our best to live a healthy life, why not start today and quit smoking.

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Have you ever heard the term pre-diabetes? Well I know I have thrown this term around on my Blog and many people are asking me – What is pre-diabetes? When your blood tests reveal a higher than normal blood sugar level, but not quite the threshold of full blown Type 2 diabetes — this is pre-diabetes. If left unchecked, it will develop into full blown Type 2 diabetes and you will become dependant on insulin shots the rest of your life. So what can we do now to prevent or delay Type 2 diabetes?

Reduce your fat intake – Surprisingly, fat intake is a major predictor of insulin resistance not carbohydrates. So you should eat no more than 30 percent of your calories form fat (50-60 grams per day). Saturated fat needs to be less than 10 percent of total calories. This can be a hard goal for some people to reach considering 2 slices of cheese is 12 grams.

We’ve all heard about that scary word “exercise”. — It may be scary, but it is true. Working muscles become more sensitive to the actions of the hormone insulin. Therefore, reducing insulin resistance and helps prevent diabetes. No we’re not talking about getting a gym membership and heavy duty exercise. If you haven’t exercised before, start by just taking a walk 30 minutes a day and you will be amazed at how much better you feel.

Eat more whole grains and fiber. – Research has found that whole grain foods improve blood sugar control. Look for food with products labeled “excellent source of whole grains.” Fiber is also important to help keep your digestive system in tip top shape do your body can absorb the nutrition it needs better.

The good news is that people who make minor changes in their lifestyle reduce their risk of developing diabetes by 58%. You’ll start feeling better and even get a better nights sleep. Who knows, with a little effort you will even drop a modest amount of weight. All of these changes will slow or prevent the onset of pre-diabetes.

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Did you know November is Diabetes Awareness month? There are over 20 million Americans that are affected by this life threatening disease. Nutrition and diet is a major player in the wellness of diabetics and pre-diabetics.

In response to this epidemic, there is a new web site to assist people living with diabetes. At www.diabeticdiret.com, you can find sugar-free foods as well as low sugar foods. They offer a wide variety of diabetic specialty food and products brought directly to your home.

Take a look at their site. I have found many products that I will be purchasing, maybe there’s stuff there for you too.

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In order to manage stress, you need to be able to manage yourself. Why worry about things you can’t control. Learn to control what you can in your own life with self management and combat negative or excess stress. Self management is a process of learning and applying new knowledge.

You may be a person that has been diagnosed with pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). You need to achieve good self management. You will need to change your lifestyle, take medications, and do regular self testing. Self-management primarily consists of educating yourself, monitoring your medical condition, and working with your health-care provider to adopt lifestyle changes.

A program of good self management will help you feel physically and emotionally better in the short run and improve the overall quality of your life. Joseph Califano, former secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, observed, “You, the individual, can do more for your health and well-being than any doctor, any hospital, any drug, and any exotic medical device.” How true this is.

Being diagnosed with diabetes will cause changes in your life and you will need to learn self management. Making self management work for you is a matter of learning something new and them applying that knowledge in your life. I find it helpful to deal with stress one day at a time, even one task at a time, and only worry about things I can control.

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A few months ago I was reading about the law suites and the damage that GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s Avandia pill causes to diabetes patients. I have had great concern about this drug, particularly when I have a close relative who has been prescribed this medication. So, how about an alternative herbal remedy? Green tea, it can calm your nerves and do much more.

In a study, a chemical in green tea, epigallocatechin gallate or EGCG, has been found to help moderately diabetic mice tolerate sugar and produce insulin. After 10 weeks of treatment, moderately diabetic mice fared as well on green tea extract as they did on Avandia. However, mice that were severely diabetic did not have as much success.

The study suggests that green tea extract may help prevent and treat people with insulin resistance and pre-diabetes. More than 240 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes and it will rise in the future. Green tea was suggested as a treatment for diabetes more than 70 years ago. Other studies have shown possible benefits of green tea in cancer and heart disease prevention.

So why does it take so long for Western medicine to realize what the Far East has known for centuries? If you’re on medication, also search for alternatives. There are less side effects taking and using natural treatments, like green tea. We don’t need to always fill the pockets of the large pharmaceutical companies.

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It’s important to have a healthy diet and regular exercise for your overall health. If you have been diagnosed with pre-diabetes or you have Type 2 diabetes, it’s even more important to manage your diet. The diabetes diet does not necessarily restrict the food that you want to eat. What will help you is the consistency of when you eat, and eating the right portions of nutritious foods.

Consistency of when you eat is almost important as to what you eat. You are better to eat 4-5 small meals per day than 1-3 large meals per day. The body was designed to eat about every three hours. If you get that hungry feeling, it’s too late and your body goes into starvation mode and you will consume more than you need.

You need to train your body of when you are going to eat and stick to a schedule of eating meals at the same times. When doing this you never get that hungry feeling throughout the day. Also, feel free to eat as much as you need, but stop just before you get that feeling of being full. After just a few days you will notice the amount of food portions will get smaller. As well as being consistent, you need to eat the right amount of the healthiest foods.

Whole-grain foods such as wheat or rye breads, wheat pasta, etc. will help you control the amount of carbohydrates you take in. Stay away from food with processed wheat flower.

Fresh Fruit and vegetables help your digestive system perform correctly. It’s easier for your body to process the natural sugar in these foods for energy. A raw food diet is what our bodies were designed for.

Avoid sweets, soda, and alcohol – Consumption will cause your body to retain excess sugar levels in the blood because the kidneys can’t process the sugars into energy fast enough. And yes, alcohol really does have a high content of sugar.

Every one talks about a low carb diet. The key is to learn when you should consume carbs and how much. Your body needs carbohydrates, which turn into a natural sugar, in order for your body to have the energy it needs to function properly.

Having a healthy diet will help manage your diabetes and your weight. A healthy, nutritiuos diet will allow your body to function properly. It may be a change in your lifestyle, but the results are rewarding. Who knows, you may loose a couple of those hard to lose pounds.

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Nutrition and health needs to be a priority in ones life. The wrong foods can be very harmful to your body; however there are many food cures that can help reverse the direction of many diseases. If you have been diagnosed with pre-diabetes, metabolic syndrome, PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) or type II diabetes, then what you put into your body is even more important.

The oyster mushroom is not only delicious to eat, it has also been found to be very beneficial to diabetes patients. Studies have found that the oyster mushroom lowers blood glucose and cholesterol. The result of a recent study done by the Department of Diet and Nutrition showed that the oyster mushroom significantly reduced the patients’ systolic and diastolic blood pressure, glucose, total cholesterol, and triglycerides.

All of this was done by eating a delicious simple little mushroom. The results happened naturally and without any deleterious effect on the liver and kidneys, unlike the side effects of using medication. Eating nutritious food is important for ones health, and many foods have a curing affect on the body. Eat well and enjoy a long healthy life.

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Do you have a spare tire? Not in the trunk of your car, but that abdominal fat that seems to never go away? It has long been suspected that this fat was a primary contributor to metabolic syndrome along with a cluster of conditions that includes the most dangerous heart attack risk factors: pre-diabetes, diabetes, high blood pressure, and changes in cholesterol.

A team of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers at Yale University School of Medicine has found that insulin resistance in skeletal muscle leads to alterations in energy storage that sets the stage for the metabolic syndrome. They found that energy from carbohydrates in meals were stored as glycogen in both the liver and in skeletal muscle. Another key observation was that skeletal muscle insulin resistance precedes the development of insulin resistance in liver cells, and that fat production in the liver is increased.

Metabolic syndrome is a very common metabolic abnormality. The syndrome afflicts more than 50 million Americans and almost half of all Americans are predisposed to metabolic syndrome. This makes metabolic syndrome one of the nation’s most serious health issues.

However there is good news. Insulin resistance in skeletal muscle can be countered through a simple intervention: exercise. So get away from your computer, or get off the couch, and take a walk with a friend or a loved one.

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There are millions of people in the US and all over the world living with type 1 and 2 diabetes. There are many more people that are also pre-diabetic. It is important for them to track their blood glucose levels.

SugarStats.com has developed a web based system for diabetic people to maintain a record of their blood glucose. A nice natural feature of this system is since the records are web based it is easy for diabetics to give this important data to their physicians easily over the internet. Their health care providers can easily monitor progress, spot dangerous trends, and better manage a diabetic lifestyle from any web browser.

If you are diabetic, take a look at this site. The main part of this program is free, making it internet-accessible to as many people as possible. It’s easy to use, so why not give it a try.

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