Sample Diabetic Diet And Activity

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Posted on 23rd November 2011 by Chief Editor in Manage Diabetes Naturally

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Here are the facts about Diabetes, taken from the World Health Organisation website for your convenience. Sample Diabetic diet guidelines show that fresh fruit and vegetables are the sample diabetic diets to follow. Low fat and low carb diets in some studies have shown good results. See the original fact sheet 312 here.

Some people prefer a sample diabetic diet plan which includes tips for a diabetic carb diet, a diabetic food list but if you build your own sample diabetic diet program and modify it as you go along, to suit you as an individual.

 

Fruit and veg

Diabetes

Fact sheet N°312

August 2011

Key facts

346 million people worldwide have diabetes.

In 2004, an estimated 3.4 million people died from consequences of high blood sugar.

More than 80% of diabetes deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.

WHO projects that diabetes deaths will double between 2005 and 2030.

Healthy diet, regular physical activity, maintaining a normal body weight and avoiding tobacco use can prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes.

What is diabetes?

Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces. Insulin is a hormone that regulates blood sugar. Hyperglycaemia, or raised blood sugar, is a common effect of uncontrolled diabetes and over time leads to serious damage to many of the body’s systems, especially the nerves and blood vessels.

Type 1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes (previously known as insulin-dependent, juvenile or childhood-onset) is characterized by deficient insulin production and requires daily administration of insulin. The cause of type 1 diabetes is not known and it is not preventable with current knowledge.

Symptoms include excessive excretion of urine (polyuria), thirst (polydipsia), constant hunger, weight loss, vision changes and fatigue. These symptoms may occur suddenly.

Type 2 diabetes

Type 2 diabetes (formerly called non-insulin-dependent or adult-onset) results from the body’s ineffective use of insulin. Type 2 diabetes comprises 90% of people with diabetes around the world, and is largely the result of excess body weight and physical inactivity.

Symptoms may be similar to those of Type 1 diabetes, but are often less marked. As a result, the disease may be diagnosed several years after onset, once complications have already arisen.

Until recently, this type of diabetes was seen only in adults but it is now also occurring in children.

Gestational diabetes

Gestational diabetes is hyperglycaemia with onset or first recognition during pregnancy.

Symptoms of gestational diabetes are similar to Type 2 diabetes. Gestational diabetes is most often diagnosed through prenatal screening, rather than reported symptoms.

Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and impaired fasting glycaemia (IFG)

Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and impaired fasting glycaemia (IFG) are intermediate conditions in the transition between normality and diabetes. People with IGT or IFG are at high risk of progressing to type 2 diabetes, although this is not inevitable.

What are common consequences of diabetes?

Over time, diabetes can damage the heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys, and nerves.

Diabetes increases the risk of heart disease and stroke. 50% of people with diabetes die of cardiovascular disease (primarily heart disease and stroke).

Combined with reduced blood flow, neuropathy in the feet increases the chance of foot ulcers and eventual limb amputation.

Diabetic retinopathy is an important cause of blindness, and occurs as a result of long-term accumulated damage to the small blood vessels in the retina. After 15 years of diabetes, approximately 2% of people become blind, and about 10% develop severe visual impairment.

Diabetes is among the leading causes of kidney failure. 10-20% of people with diabetes die of kidney failure.

Diabetic neuropathy is damage to the nerves as a result of diabetes, and affects up to 50% of people with diabetes. Although many different problems can occur as a result of diabetic neuropathy, common symptoms are tingling, pain, numbness, or weakness in the feet and hands.

The overall risk of dying among people with diabetes is at least double the risk of their peers without diabetes.

What is the economic impact of diabetes?

Diabetes and its complications have a significant economic impact on individuals, families, health systems and countries. For example, WHO estimates that in the period 2006-2015, China will lose $558 billion in foregone national income due to heart disease, stroke and diabetes alone.

How can the burden of diabetes be reduced?

Prevention

Simple lifestyle measures have been shown to be effective in preventing or delaying the onset of type 2 diabetes. To help prevent type 2 diabetes and its complications, people should:

achieve and maintain healthy body weight;

be physically active – at least 30 minutes of regular, moderate-intensity activity on most days. More activity is required for weight control;

eat a healthy diet of between three and five servings of fruit and vegetables a day and reduce sugar and saturated fats intake;

avoid tobacco use – smoking increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases.

Diagnosis and treatment

Early diagnosis can be accomplished through relatively inexpensive blood testing.

Treatment of diabetes involves lowering blood glucose and the levels of other known risk factors that damage blood vessels. Tobacco use cessation is also important to avoid complications.

Interventions that are both cost saving and feasible in developing countries include:

moderate blood glucose control. People with type 1 diabetes require insulin; people with type 2 diabetes can be treated with oral medication, but may also require insulin;

blood pressure control;

foot care.

Other cost saving interventions include:

screening and treatment for retinopathy (which causes blindness);

blood lipid control (to regulate cholesterol levels);

screening for early signs of diabetes-related kidney disease.

These measures should be supported by a healthy diet, regular physical activity, maintaining a normal body weight and avoiding tobacco use.

WHO activities to prevent and control diabetes

WHO aims to stimulate and support the adoption of effective measures for the surveillance, prevention and control of diabetes and its complications, particularly in low and middle-income countries. To this end, WHO:

provides scientific guidelines for diabetes prevention;

develops norms and standards for diabetes care;

builds awareness on the global epidemic of diabetes; including partnership with the International Diabetes Federation in the celebration of World Diabetes Day (14 November);

conducts surveillance of diabetes and its risk factors.

 

Keep these Diabetic guidelines as the rules to follow when creating your sample diabetic diet program, then you know you are following the best advice out there.

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Diabetes Causes Simple But Ignored

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Posted on 16th November 2011 by Chief Editor in Uncategorized

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Diabetes Causes

 

Diabetes mellitus is simply referred to as Diabetes. These metabolic diseases lead to Diabetes blood sugar at high levels. Diabetes causes the body to not produce enough insulin or the body cells do not respond to the amount produced. Diabetes causes are many and varied but in the article below from Diabetes.org it is expained clearly that any Diabetes causes can be prevented. If time is pressing, go to the short video that provides an overview of Diabetes causes at the end of the article.

Diabetes causes

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Diabetes Causes and risk factors

Type 1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is when no insulin is produced at all because the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas have been destroyed. Nobody knows for sure why these cells have been damaged but the most likely cause is the body having an abnormal reaction to the cells. There is nothing that you can do to prevent Type 1 diabetes. This type of diabetes is always treated with insulin injections.

Type 2 diabetes

Type 2 diabetes is when the body either does not produce enough insulin, or the insulin it produces does not work as well as it should (insulin resistance). This type of diabetes is treated with lifestyle changes, following a healthy balanced diet, increasing physical activity, and losing weight if you need to. Some people may need medications and/or insulin injections to achieve normal blood glucose levels.

Some of the risks factors associated with Type 2 diabetes are out of your control while others, such as being overweight, you can act on to reduce the risk of developing diabetes. You should ask your GP for a test for diabetes, if you:

are white and over 40 years old

are black, Asian or from a minority ethnic group and over 25 years old

have one or more of the following risk factors.

The risk factors

A close member of your family has Type 2 diabetes (parent or brother or sister).

You’re overweight or if your waist is 31.5 inches or over for women; 35 inches or over for Asian men and 37 inches or over for white and black men.

You have high blood pressure or you’ve had a heart attack or a stroke.

You’re a woman with polycystic ovary syndrome and you are overweight.

You’ve been told you have impaired glucose tolerance or impaired fasting glycaemia.

If you’re a woman and you’ve had gestational diabetes.

You have severe mental health problems.

The more risk factors that apply to you, the greater your risk of having diabetes.

Some things that do not cause diabetes

Eating sweets and sugar does not cause diabetes,but eating a lot of sugary and fatty foods can lead to being overweight.

You cannot catch diabetes, like a cold.

Stress does not cause diabetes, although it may make the symptoms worse in people who already have the condition.

An accident or an illness will not cause diabetes but may reveal diabetes if it is already there.

 

The original article of Diabetes causes can be viewed here. Many people who have either been recently diagnosed or suspect something is not quite right look, to find a Diabetes cause, for their condition. We hope this helps you to understand Diabetes and its causes.

Further information on Diabetes blood sugar, Diabetes glucose and Diabetes cause can be found here

 

For a Diabetes natural treatment video from Vital finds go here

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Lack Of Diabetic Treatment Causes Tsunami

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Posted on 15th November 2011 by Chief Editor in Uncategorized

Looking for A Diabetes Natural Treatment is extremely important, the figures in each country from the World Diabetes Day Yesterday 14th November reported that Diabetes is increasing in every country around the world, But who has the highest instance ? Find out below in the article from The Telegram written by J.McLeod

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,reports that there are 18.8 million people in the US who have been diagnosed with diabetes. However, another 7.0 million people may have diabetes but do not know it. They acknowledge the importance of finding a Diabetes Natural Treatment, but are we trying too many options instead of focussing on the most likely too succeed Diabetes natural treatment.

14th November 2011

World Diabetes Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At World Diabetes Day celebrations in St. John’s, one fact dominated the day: Newfoundland and Labrador has the highest rate of diabetes anywhere in the world.

Opposition politicians attending the event on Signal Hill said the government isn’t making diabetes a priority.

“Doesn’t it upset government to know that we are No. 1 in the world with regard to the incidence of diabetes?” NDP Leader Lorraine Michael said Monday. “They’re not taking seriously enough the issue of diabetes in this province.

“It’s a killer. I just had a 66-year-old friend who died from it. It’s a killer.”

In January, then-auditor general John Noseworthy blasted the government for its lack of a chronic disease management plan dealing with diabetes.

“The Department of Health and Community Services … is not doing a good job in fulfilling its leadership role in preventing and managing chronic diseases, including diabetes,” Noseworthy wrote.

Speaking as a diabetic Monday, Michael LeBlanc talked about the serious consequences of the disease. “I can tell you that I’ve had three heart attacks in 18 months. Three. I’m still here, so I’m too contrary to die,” LeBlanc said. “If you trace the heart attacks back, you can directly trace it right back to the incidence of diabetes.”

Talking to the media afterwards, he said the sheer rate of diabetes in the province puts some of the responsibility on the government.

“It’s like a baseball bat to the side of the head. Hey, wake up guys. This has got to be taken care of,” LeBlanc said.

Nearly 10 per cent of people in the province have the disease.

Sandy Collins, parliamentary secretary for health, represented the government at Monday’s event. He said a comprehensive strategy on diabetes is still in the works.

“Obviously, when we say it’s a priority, it is a priority,” he said. “It’s something that is being worked on, and I think we’re also addressing other areas of course through the other initiatives on a go-forward basis.”

Health minister Susan Sullivan was unable to attend the event. She said the invitation only came to her office late Thursday afternoon, and she couldn’t find time within her schedule.

“You can imagine my just coming to this department is going to mean that I’m slightly busy in terms of getting up to speed on a number of initiatives happening,” she said. “I thought it important enough that somebody be there, so therefore I sent my parliamentary secretary because today’s agenda had Alfreda been planned well in advance and there were some pretty significant things on today’s agenda.”

Sullivan acknowledged there had been delays in publishing the strategy for diabetes and othe chronic disease, but said she hopes to make an announcement by early December.

“The department is certainly developing a chronic disease strategy around prevention and management, and you know, it’s something that we’ve been working on for a while,” she said, adding the government is already doing some work on diabetes, in the absence of a strategy. “Obviously it’s a huge concern of ours, and that’s why we’ve already allocated $1.4 million in funding to provide insulin pumps.”

But Michael questioned why it’s taken this long to get it in place.

“It’s one of the failings of this government. It continues in all kinds of areas to fail to actually put plans in place with deadlines attached to them and goals attached to them,” she said. “I see no reason why, within a month, they couldn’t have a management plan in place if the political will were there to make it happen.”

Liberal health critic also questioned the government’s priorities on the issue.

“In Newfoundland right now, we do not have a diabetic registry,” he said. “We don’t even have all of our physicians reporting into the database, so it really doesn’t give us the ammunition that we need to make informed decisions.”

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Who would have thought that of all the countries in the world and the lifestyles of any western countries that the people in  Newfoundland and Labrador has the highest rate of diabetes anywhere in the world. They are the one’s who are looking for a Diabetes Natural Treatment more than anybody else.

For those of you who want a simple and clear explanation on Diabetes, here is a video from Diabetes.org UK

 

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Diabetes Natural Treatment To Slow The Trend

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Posted on 14th November 2011 by Chief Editor in Manage Diabetes Naturally

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Is there a Diabetes Natural

Treatment ready to reduce this

trend ?

With this predicted rise in the number of people worldwide who will be diagnosed with some form of diabetes, it is time we all looked at methods of Diabetes natural treatment. Current research and ongoing studies for Diabetes natural treatment are showing some huge steps forward, super foods and cell transplants all helping to reverse Diabetes and find a natural treatment for Diabetes.

Natural drugs and natural treatments are the biggest area that current sufferers are hoping to see developments so they are in control of the Diabetes natural treatment going into their bodies. Read the report from CBC news  “ Diabetes to afflict 522 million by 2030 “

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The International Diabetes Federation predicts that one in 10 adults could have diabetes by 2030, according to the latest statistics.

In a report issued on Monday, the advocacy group estimated that 522 million people would have diabetes in the next two decades, driven by factors including aging and demographic changes.

The figure includes both types of diabetes. The group expects the number of cases to jump by 90 per cent even in Africa, where infectious diseases have previously been the top killer. Without including the impact of increasing obesity, the International Diabetes Federation said its figures were conservative.

According to the World Health Organization, there are about 346 million people worldwide with diabetes, with more than 80 percent of deaths occurring in developing countries. The agency projects diabetes deaths will double by 2030 and said the International Diabetes Federation’s prediction was possible.

“It’s a credible figure,” said Gojka Roglic, head of WHO’s diabetes unit. “But whether or not it’s correct, we can’t say.”

Roglic said the projected future rise in diabetes cases was because of aging rather than the obesity epidemic. Most cases of diabetes are Type 2, the kind that mainly hits people in middle age, and is linked to weight gain and a sedentary lifestyle.

Roglic said a substantial number of future diabetes cases were preventable.

“It’s worrying because these people will have an illness which is serious, debilitating, and shortens their lives,” she said. “But it doesn’t have to happen if we take the right interventions.”

 

Any Diabetes natural treatment that can slow down or reverse Diabetes is going to be a major humanitarian impact to people who could be diagnosed in the coming years. Drug companies are anticipating a bonanza, so let’s hope the research and test studies produce a Diabetes natural treatment first !

 

 

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Manage Diabetes Naturally – Cell Transplants

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Posted on 12th November 2011 by Chief Editor in Manage Diabetes Naturally

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Islet cells

 

Interesting trials are taking place, with some positive results Islet cell transplant. Once implanted, theoretically the beta cells in these islets cure diabetes naturally by restoring the pancreas’ proper function by making and releasing insulin. The goal is to help people with Type 1 diabetes live without daily injections of insulin. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disorder not caused by obesity and poor lifestyle habits, as in the more common and preventable Type 2 diabetes.The implanted cells would then reduce the symptoms and it would be possible to manage diabetes naturally. It has been the life works of any researchers and scientists to make it possible to manage diabetes naturally rather than the constant monitoring and insulin injections that are used at present.

 

Here is an interesting article from the Miami Herald :

 

Researchers look at strategies to combat growing diabetes problem

 

 

Researchers look at islet transplantation and other cell treatments in the fight against this disorder of the body’s endocrine system, growing at an alarming rate nationwide.

 

BY HOWARD COHEN

 

HCOHEN@MIAMIHERALD.COM

 

Dr. Camillo Ricordi, director of the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami, says he’s “very optimistic” about finally finding a cure for diabetes, a chronic disease that affects 20 million to 25 million Americans and is projected to double by 2025.

“Finally” being an operative word. The syndrome first became known more than 3,500 years ago and it took centuries to link diabetes to the pancreas, which produces the insulin the body needs. Until insulin was discovered in the 1920s, diabetes was most often treated by starvation.

Research, Ricordi notes, “is a long and tedious process with all kinds of impediments to new cures. We now have project teams from Miami to China and Europe to South America to try and develop strategies in the fastest, most efficient ways, despite the barriers and impediments.”

Diabetes, a chronic degenerative condition, is a leading cause of renal failure, can lead to blindness, heart disease and kidney failure. Diabetes, as it attacks the body, can also lead to loss of limbs.

The Diabetes Research Institute is involved in several strategies, including a clinical research trial to look at islet transplantation as one potential breakthrough in managing diabetes. Islets are several types of cells, including beta cells that help manufacture insulin.

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Islet Cells

The Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Care at Memorial Health Care in Hollywood is also researching new classes of drugs to treat diabetes, including the return of inhaled insulin, which had fallen out of favor about five years ago, mostly as a result of poor marketing strategies, says Dr. Sam Lerman, the center’s lead investigator.

“We are closing the gaps in terms of all the defects that go into the development of diabetes, it’s not just a one defect disease.”

Perhaps the most promising treatment, islet transplantation, Ricordi explains, takes microscopic cells, or islets, from the pancreas of a deceased organ donor and, after undergoing a purification process, are transferred into a patient with Type 1 diabetes. Once implanted, theoretically the beta cells in these islets restore the pancreas’ proper function by making and releasing insulin. The goal is to help people with Type 1 diabetes live without daily injections of insulin. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disorder not caused by obesity and poor lifestyle habits, as in the more common and preventable Type 2 diabetes.

One hurdle with the transplant approach, however, is in finding a suitable number of islets or “an inexhaustible source of cells to produce insulin,” says Dr. Jay Skyler, deputy director of the DRI. Islets are harvested from cadavers that died not from disease but usually in accidents. In the United States this pool of donors numbers about 8,000 and only 20 to 30 percent have useful pancreases, Skyler believes. “We can’t go far.”

As such, researchers are also looking at tissue programming, a means to coax other cells to act like a pancreas and produce insulin or generate cells from stem cells that can solve the problem, Skyler said.

If achievements in islet transplantation are accomplished, the next “quantum leap” would be to perform cellular therapy without the need for anti-rejection drugs “which produce an array of challenges and side effects,” Ricordi says. These problems can include a decrease in the alertness of the immune system and a risk of toxicity.

 

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Diabetes Breakthrough To Manage Diabetes Naturally

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Posted on 11th November 2011 by Chief Editor in Manage Diabetes Naturally

Wouldn’t life be so much easier and less painful if a method to manage diabetes naturally included, testing your tears instead of your blood. Sugar levels have been found by scientists to be accurate when measured in tears Hopefully to induce the tears, it is nothing painful or it would defeat the whole purpose of the test. Here is the article from the Mail online :

Diabetes breakthrough could save sufferers from drawing blood by testing tears instead

By CLAIRE BATES

 

Sugar in Tears

Tears

Diabetics may be saved from having to draw blood several times a day to test their sugar levels after scientists found a way to use tears instead.

Diabetics have to test their blood sugar levels from two to 10 times a day by drawing a droplet of blood with a finger-prick test.

However, some people don’t measure their levels often enough because of the discomfort it causes.

 

The researchers said in the journal Analytical Chemistry: ‘Thus it may be possible to measure tear glucose levels multiple times per day to monitor blood glucose changes without the potential pain from the repeated invasive blood drawing method.’

 

Blood test

A blood test

Some type 1 diabetics must check their blood sugar levels 10 times a day

Doctors say there is a great demand for an alternative to using lancets, or pricking needles, to draw blood.

Fingers can become sensitive over time and there is always a small risk of infection.

Frequent tests are essential for people with type 1 diabetes, who can’t produce the hormone insulin, needed to control blood sugar levels.

Skin prick tests are the only way to safely monitor glucose levels and will let patients know if they need an insulin injection.

If blood sugar levels fall too low, type one diabetics can develop hypoglycaemia, which can lead to coma and death if left untreated.

People with type 2 diabetes don’t produce enough insulin to control blood sugar levels. Although it can be treated with a healthier diet and exercise it is a progressive condition and medication may be needed when the condition is more advanced.

Those with type 2 diabetes may only need to test themselves twice a week if they manage to get their sugar levels under control.

Diabetes affects 2.8 million people in the UK and 26 million people in the U.S. The majority of sufferers have type 2 of the condition.

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This would be such a convenient way to take your sugar level throughout the day and help to manage diabetes naturally instead of the historical methods being used to date.

 

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