Diabetes - How to Manage Diabetes the Simple Way

How to Manage Diabetes

There are a number of steps that you need to follow to take control of the excess blood glucose levels in your body.

It is very important, that you control your diabetes by regularly visiting your Diabetic Specialist who should be insisting on regular tests so he or she can ensure you are treated correctly. It is important that you regularly test your own blood. This should be done each day at the same time before meals.

Because diabetes is a complicated disability and being combined with other disorders it is important that medication prescribed by the doctor be taken on a regular basis. Most medication can be taken either morning or night depending on your desires.

The complications associated with diabetes makes it important to keep control you diabetes and that includes blood pressure and cholesterol. This might also include taking specific medication for that too.

It is important that you understand exactly what has gone wrong with your health, you must endeavor to gain as much knowledge as you can. The internet is a valuable source of knowledge these days, but you must also be objective about the information that is available, and sometimes it might be biased to a particular medication.

Now comes the most important part and that is a LIFESTYLE CHANGE. This must happen nothing changes unless you change. You have the control here.

You must begin to eat the proper foods. There is no special diet other than the food you must avoid. You must give up anything that contains refined carbohydrates as in sugar and all dairy products and anything that belongs to an animal that walks upon this earth. You must give up booze and you must not be smoking. If you don't change your lifestyle then you might not bother doing anything.

Now comes the fun part, the exercises part, no excuses here, you must start a walking program that will take up to 20-30 minutes a day six days a week. Now if you have become so obese that you find walking almost impossible then start using some weights to get that muscles working and the heart pumping remember, no excuses.

Remember that this disability can cause blindness, amputation, dialysis, heart attack or stroke, anyone is not good.

Diabetes can be cured if you to start caring for yourself properly and trying to reverse the many years of abuse.

YOU CAN DO IT