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Type 2 Diabetes - Should Diabetics Have a Cheat Meal?

Naeem | 10:28 AM | Be the first to comment!


It's the age-old question for many people diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes wanting to control their blood sugar levels and lose weight. Should you or shouldn't you have a cheat meal and how often? Cheat meals, or 'reward meals', however you want to call them, are a common dieting concept.

Some Type 2 diabetics realize when they commence their healthy eating plan, they are not perfect and chose to eat one cheat meal each week. Provided they are eating a clean diet with no processed foods and their calorie control is not abused for the rest of the week, one cheat meal a week will give their metabolism the ability to burn more calories.

The idea is by having a cheat meal, you can give into your cravings, reducing temptation and getting back to your diabetic eating plan. But, is that always how it pans out?

Here are a few points to consider...

1. Can You Regain Control? First, ask yourself this simple question - can you regain control? Or, does 'cheating' lead to a week-long spinout of your healthy eating plan where you are eating a number of foods you shouldn't?

While some people can 'cheat' and then simply get right back on the protocol, others cannot. Cheating for them is highly dangerous and could mean a week off their healthy eating plan.

If that's you, you'll want to think twice about going ahead with it.

2. Does Cheating Increase Temptation? Second, also assess whether 'cheating' will actually boost your temptation even higher. For some people, simply having cheat meal means they will now know the taste of the food - and they'll want it more.

For some people, once they've eliminated certain foods, it's best to just keep them out for good. In time, they won't really remember how they tasted and when that happens, temptation also subsides.

But if you constantly remind yourself how much you enjoy a particular food by giving in to cheat meals, you'll never achieve this effect.

3. How Much Weight Do You Have To Lose? Finally, also consider how much weight you have to lose. Do you need to lose 30+ pounds? If so, the physiological reasons for cheating are not necessary and you may just set yourself back even further.

For those who are already quite lean looking to get leaner, 'cheating' can actually help to speed up the metabolic rate, so for them it can be beneficial to have in place.

For those with plenty of fat already on their frame, this just isn't the story. Their metabolism won't be slowing down nearly as much as they move through their healthy diabetic eating plan, so they don't need the calorie spike the cheat meal will provide.

So keep these points in mind when deciding whether you should cheat on your diet or not. Assess your own self-control as this is the most important factor driving the decision.

Although managing your disease can be very challenging, Type 2 diabetes is not a condition you must just live with. You can make simple changes to your daily routine and lower both your weight and your blood sugar levels. Hang in there, the longer you do it, the easier it gets.

For nearly 25 years Beverleigh Piepers has searched for and found a number of secrets to help you build a healthy body. Go to http://DrugFreeType2Diabetes.com to learn about some of those secrets.

The answer isn't in the endless volumes of available information but in yourself.

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Digital Blood Pressure Machines Are Mandatory for All

Naeem | 10:27 AM | Be the first to comment!


Looking back at the times, you will realize that people of those generations were actually leading a better lifestyle. They used to breathe fresh air, free of the pollutants, ate healthy food free from the harmful effects of fertilizers and pesticides and subsequently did not fall ill so frequently. It is true that they did not have enough comforting facilities that we enjoy today, but they were actually leading a healthy lifestyle.

With the technological advancement, the complications around the world have increased and that has put a strain on the health of people living in the present world. It is extremely contrary, that the advancement has led to the increase in diseased while it is the only reason behind the medical facilities that are available to us today. The increased use of home healthcare products is a symbol that glorifies the fact and among them, the most common is the digital blood pressure machines that have been widely used in so many homes.

BP is an ailment that embraced only the old people back in the time. However, these days, even the youngsters as young as the school or college students are suffering from hypertension. It has expanded itself into a chronic disease that has been affecting many lives off lately. An abnormally high blood pressure can lead to sudden fits, ruptures of the arteries and even brain hemorrhage leading to immediate death. This is the reason why people suffering from hypertensions are often advised to regularly monitor their blood pressure to track any unwanted changed. It is extremely expensive if you try to get it checked on a regular basis with a doctor. However, if you buy a digital blood pressure machine, you can keep a check on your blood pressure yourself.

A person suffering from low BP on the other hand can collapse at any point of time if the blood pressure drops below the normal level. It may begin with dizziness or fatigue and even lead to unconsciousness. Such people are advised to keep a pinch of salt with them at least as it can act as an active remedy.

Home healthcare products facilitate people to monitor things right at their home itself. BP (whether hyperactive or low) cannot be cured, but if you keep a regular check and consume the prescribed medicines without failure, you can surely prevent yourself from the catastrophic effects. This creates a necessity of buying the digital blood pressure machine. It facilitates in easy home monitoring and saves you a lot of money that you might have spent by visiting the doctors for the same.

OMRON Healthcare India Pvt Ltd is a provider of state-of-the-art medical technologies and a wide array of home healthcare products including blood pressure monitor, blood glucose monitor, thermometer, weighing scales, step counter, cushion massager, pulse massager etc.

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Type 2 Diabetes - Sleep and Sugar Tolerance After Having Had Gestational Diabetes

Naeem | 10:26 AM | Be the first to comment!
After having been diagnosed with Gestational diabetes it is important to prevent the development of a more permanent case of Type 2 diabetes. Scientists at the Research Center for Environmental Health and other research facilities in Germany, compared sleep quality and sugar tolerance after women having had a diagnosis of diabetes during their pregnancy.
Their investigation, reported on in the Journal of Psychiatric Research in April 2015, looked at...
  • 61 women after Gestational diabetes, and
  • 30 women after a healthy pregnancy.
It was found...
  • among the women with a history of Gestational diabetes, sleep quality was associated with blood sugar levels 2 hours after they consumed sugar.
  • among the thirty women who had a healthy pregnancy, no such link was found.
  • women who reported feeling stress had a 12 per cent higher risk for poor sleep quality.
From this information it was concluded reducing stress and improving sleep quality could possibly help to prevent progression to Type 2 diabetes after women having developed diabetes during their pregnancy.
Under stress the endocrine glands release hormones to ready us for the fight or flight response. Cortisol and epinephrine raise blood sugar levels to provide the cells with all the energy we might need. If the body is insensitive to insulin or incapable of making it in sufficient amounts, blood sugar levels tend to stay high.
Everyone has spent a night tossing and turning during a stressful time. When the stress is constant and sleep quality goes down indefinitely, we cannot get the rest we need.
New mothers generally do not have a lot of time for stress therapy, but finding time for staying healthy is important for mother and baby. The Mayo Clinic in the United States suggests techniques such as...
  • visualization,
  • progressive muscle relaxation, and
  • autogenic relaxation.
During visualization, one imagines a peaceful spot such as a garden. Participants might imagine seeing colorful flowers while inhaling their scent. Sitting down, one might feel the grass under their feet and hear wind chimes or birds singing in the trees.

Progressive muscle relaxation is just what it sounds like. Participants start from their head muscles and progress down, or start with their feet and go up. Tense each muscle group for 5 seconds followed by relaxing the same muscle group for 30 seconds.

Autogenic relaxation comes from inside. Repeating words or ideas while focusing on relaxed breathing and slowing the heart rate, and lowering blood pressure. Alternatively relaxing each limb one by one can help take away stress.

Exercise is also good for relieving stress, so get a buggy designed for jogging, or maybe find a babysitter and go for a swim.

Although managing your disease can be very challenging, Type 2 diabetes is not a condition you must just live with. You can make simple changes to your daily routine and lower both your weight and your blood sugar levels. Hang in there, the longer you do it, the easier it gets.

For nearly 25 years Beverleigh Piepers has searched for and found a number of secrets to help you build a healthy body. Go to http://DrugFreeType2Diabetes.com to learn about some of those secrets.
The answer isn't in the endless volumes of available information but in yourself.

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Holistic Healing: Living With Type II Diabetes

Naeem | 10:25 AM | Be the first to comment!


I am not a doctor nor do I play one on television. I am a woman living with unmedicated "Type II" diabetes.

I noticed in the mid 1990's that I began to have increased thirst and need to go to the bathroom. I had been drinking too much soda especially orange flavored drink. I had no clue at the time, that this may be a sign of high glucose or diabetes. I knew something was up with my body but I was not sure what was going on until I read a book about low carbohydrate eating.

Diabetes is a condition where the pancreas does not release enough insulin, or the pancreas produces insulin that does not function as it should. The presence of too much glucose in the blood stream causes the kidneys to react by trying to expel the excess glucose. Why do we call diabetes the sticky illness? If you have ever put sugar on your hand and got it wet you know what happens right? It becomes sticky.

Furthermore, imagine making candy or fudge. The sugar melts with extreme heat and hardens when cooled. The hardening of sugar is just like what happens in our blood stream when there is too much sugar. Our blood becomes sticky. Modern medicine has warned that too much fat in a diet is the cause of obesity and disease. It is my opinion that sugar in foods is the most deadly weapon in the arsenal of ill health.

There are many steps you can take to reduce glucose in your blood which may prevent medical intervention. If you do have diabetes or symptoms, please do consult your doctor. First, go out and by a cheap glucose monitor and just see if your levels are normal. This is the first step to the awareness of what your body is doing.

Eating sugar increases your glucose. I know that may seem a bit simple, but it is true. If you eat sugar your blood glucose increases. Therefore the first step in healing yourself with natural remedies, is to stop eating anything with pure sugar in it like cake, candy and sweet soda. Also step eating bread, pasta and rice. Even stop eating fruit until your pancreas has a rest.

By removing carbohydrate rich foods from your diet you give your pancreas time to rest and rejuvenate. You also give your kidneys time to clear out toxins from having too much sugar in your body. As obvious as it may seem, sugar makes sugar.

Diabetes is often the result in an imbalance of minerals in your body. A daily multi-vitamin can replace nutrients your body needs and is certainly lacking. Chromium is also a mineral which has been known to lower blood sugar levels.

Finally, water and walking are the two friends you must make. Drink 1/2 your body weight in PURE water, not Kool-Aid or Gatorade. Water is electric and is from source. From a Spiritual standpoint, water is like GOD. It is the conduit between you and the best health you can imagine.

Meditation can help with releasing stress that causes the body to become a beaver dam, so take some time today to feel and listen to your body. Increased thirst and need to urinate are two signs that you may be diabetic.

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