If you’re overweight and diabetic, weight loss should be one of your top priorities in life.  It’s a sad fact that diabetics do tend to carry excess weight.  Not only is this generally unhealthy, and unattractive, but it also makes diabetes worse in many cases. Losing weight can make your disease more manageable, less of a burden to you, and in many cases it can actually reverse Type 2 diabetes.  If you’re really out of shape, the good news is that the more overweight you are, the more of a beneficial impact losing the excess pounds can have for you.
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What are the two keys to preventing a person from coming down with Type 2 diabetes?  Diet and exercise.  Nothing fancy – no pills, no vaccines, do expensive treatments.  Just common sense and living right.  Type 2 diabetes is what used be known as adult onset diabetes, as opposed to juvenile diabetes (Type 1), which a person is born with.  Do you know why the name was changed from adult onset to Type 2?  One of the big reasons is that more and more kids are coming down with it.  It used to be that only adults got it.  And make no mistake; Type 2 diabetes might be “treatable”, but it’s still a a life threatening condition, and it’s terrible to have to live with.
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It seems as if every time you turn around these days another celebrity is promoting another cause, using their fame and good will to raise money and awareness to achieve something.  One campaign that everyone should be adopting is the preventing Type 2 diabetes cause.  It’s surprising how many people aren’t aware that America is currently experiencing and epidemic of Type 2 diabetes.  In 2007, the New York Times ran a huge multi-page story on this hidden epidemic.  In it, they talked about the fact that more and more kids are coming down with this killer disease, which used to affect only older adults.  And doctors told the paper that they fear that this is just the tip of the iceberg.
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It’s tough enough dealing with diabetes.  And stress is a lot to handle all by itself.  But when you combine the two, the compound effect is terrible.  Stress can take a severe health toll on diabetics, and so they need to be vigilant for any signs of trouble.  One of the problems is that most people don’t really understand what stress is.  The average person thinks it means something like emotional turmoil such as a person might experience after a divorce or job loss.  Or being overwhelmed with trying to juggle family and work responsibilities.  It certainly can refer to those types of thing.  But the term is actually far broader.
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There’s a lot of talk these days about diabetes and green tea.  It seems that drinking green tea is one of the best things a person with diabetes can do for their health.  This should come as no surprise, as green tea has been treasured by the Chinese people for its health benefits for centuries.  It seems that in many ways modern, Western medicine is just catching up to ancient wisdom from the far east.  Acupuncture is being taken more and more seriously for pain management and treatment for all sorts of conditions.  Yoga and Qui Gong are also being studied intensely because people who practice them report such great benefits.  And now it’s green tea’s turn.
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One of the biggest struggles that comes with living with diabetes is managing your weight.  It’s a double curse – the disease makes it tougher to keep your weight under control, even while the consequences of not doing so can be far more dire than in a person who isn’t diabetic.  It’s a heavy burden to bear, and many diabetics can get discouraged and give up the fight, and just let themselves go.  But that’s the road to an early grave, and you should do your best to avoid resignation.  Yes, diabetes and weight loss are tough to manage together, but it can be done.  Here are some tips.
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Let’s talk about diabetes and sugar.  If you’re like most people, you know that there’s some sort of connection between the two, but you’re sort of fuzzy on the details.  In fact, you have probably heard the disease itself referred to as sugar diabetes.  This is less common these days, but many older people still use this incorrect term.  And you’ve probably heard two completely contradictory statements – that sugar causes diabetes, and that sugar doesn’t’ cause diabetes.  Which one’s true, and which one’s false?  They can’t both be true, can they?  Just what are the facts, exactly?

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Diabetes is a rapidly growing health problem in the United States, and doctors think that’s mostly because of what’s called the Standard American Diet (SAD).  Junk food constitutes an ever growing percentage of the average person’s food intake in this country.  Much of it comes from fast food, which used to be an occasional treat for people, but is now some folks’ main source of “nutrition.”  Because of this weight problem, there’s always a new fad diet sweeping America.  One that did recently, and is still quite popular, is the high protein diet.  Is there a connection between contracting diabetes and protein?  Or lack of protein?  Is a high protein diet recommended for diabetics?  Let’s look at the facts.

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Being diagnosed with diabetes is a real setback in life.  Many people who don’t have this terrible disease seem to regard it as some sort of minor inconvenience, like living with an ingrown toenail or something along those lines.  But if you have diabetes, you know just what a life changing event your diagnosis was.  Nothing will ever be the same again; you’ve got to constantly monitor your blood sugar levels, take your insulin, and watch what you eat.  But there are things you can do that will make your life a lot better, or help prevent it from getting worse.  Exercise is one.  Let’s talk about diabetes and exercise.

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There’s a lot of confusion that surrounds the topic of diabetes and drinking.  Many people are living with all sorts of misinformation, or just a complete lack of information on the topic.  That’s not good; there are some things you should know about drinking and diabetes whether you have the disease or not.  And there are other facts that people suffering from diabetes must know about drinking if they don’t want to further endanger their health.  Let’s look at some of the things people should know.

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