Some tips for healthy lifestyle can prevent diabetes complications, or even halt the onset of type 2 diabetes at a later stage.
In a century, our lifestyles have changed dramatically for the better, but also for the worse. Industrialization was accompanied by a lot of stress, fast food and sedentary lifestyles, which are all risk factors for the development of type 2 diabetes and complications coming from both type 1 and 2 diabetes.
Whether you are affected or not, adopting a healthy lifestyle can reduce the risk of developing the disease or reduce complications. Depending on your condition and the type of diabetes that affects you, medication (insulin, tablets, etc.) can be useful.
Any person with diabetes can now have a normal life by managing his condition through four points: a balanced diet, physical exercise, proper medical advice and better stress management.
A balanced diet
There is not, strictly speaking, a diet specifically for diabetics, but rather many advice on food hygiene profitable for anyone. With a balanced diet, you can control your blood glucose (sugar level in the blood) but also stabilize your weight and be an example to people around you.
Balanced Diet
To achieve this goal:
- Reduce the amount of fat in your diet by limiting its use for cooking. Choose grilled, boiled or steamed foods instead of fried foods;
- Avoid cakes, cookies or candies;
- Eat less salt and prefer other flavor enhancers such as herbs, spices or lemon;
- Limit your alcohol consumption;
- Do not skip meals and be sure to eat at regular hours.
Sports are healthy!
Our modern lifestyles do not promote physical activity. Yielding to a sedentary lifestyle, the balance between the consumption of sugar in the blood and the storage leans too often on the wrong side. A Regular physical activity lowers the amount of sugar in the blood and improves insulin action.
To gain maximum benefits of a physical activity:
- Choose an activity that motivates you and that you can practice with another person;
- Choose the stairs instead of the elevator;
- Emphasize walks after meals;
- If you take the subway, get off one stop before your destination and walk a little
- Do the same thing by parking your car a few meters before your destination.
Follow your doctor’s advice
Essential to control blood glucose, insulin is essential for type 1 diabetes. When the body cannot produce this hormone, diabetics need multiple injections per day to substitute. The regular blood tests based on a self-monitoring allows patients to monitor their blood glucose and, if necessary, to inject the right dose of insulin.
In type 2 diabetes, the amount of insulin produced is too low and may require, in nearly one third of cases, injections for a period or during the entire treatment. Informed medical advice will allow diabetics to control the disease throughout the course and live normally.
Avoid stress
Stress can be an important factor in triggering diabetes. To limit this factor, do not neglect your social life and relax with friends or family.
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