Living With Type 2 Diabetes: Problems And Solutions

Using thought, evaluation and action, you can control your type 2 diabetes. The direct tool is being aware of your blood sugar level and controlling it since your body can't (for now). This seems like a huge task at the beginning, because it is something not done by many people. Especially if you need to be very strict in obtaining 'tight' control.

Most people's bodies regulate blood sugar levels without conscious control. Balancing nutrition, food types, and exercise allows many people to manage the symptoms of type 2 diabetes successfully. With out regular exercise and high blood sugar levels, the circulatory system becomes brittle and broken, resulting in death of flesh in the extremities from lack of blood.

When one needs to control your diabetes with insulin injections, the amounts of insulin needed has to be calculated based upon the both the person's blood sugar level (found with the use of a blood sample and a meter) and the amount of sugar-potential food eaten.

Abnormal balance of blood sugar causes many problems in the individual, including mental depression, lack of energy, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, pain and numbness in hands and feet, inability to heal from wounds. In the later stages of poor circulation, amputations may be performed.

Without resorting to drugs or insulin, blood sugar levels are controlled by monitoring these levels before and after meals and adjusting the food quantity and quality in response. Over time, this control becomes harder to do with out regular exercise. The use of glucose is less effective by the individual cells. Exercise is a basic human body use. It occurs through the use of glucose (blood sugar) to provide energy to move. This potential energy must be used, stored or eliminated by the body. By not using it in exercise, your body stores it in a chain of reactions that result in fat gain or is flushed out of the body using the kidneys and liver. Overuse of these organs contribute to damage and failure.

Weight control is essential for people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is 'caught' easier if you are obese. This connection occurs because the additional body mass requires more insulin (and additional fat makes it harder for the body to use insulin as well), which plays a major role in transporting blood sugar in and around cells, where it is converted to energy. This requirement for additional insulin is never quite caught up with by the pancreas in type 2 diabetic people, resulting in high blood sugar levels.

Exercise (raising a sweat at least 3 times a week, for 30 minutes each time) provides many health benefits on both large (macro) and small (micro) scale. In any person, diabetic or not, it's been proven that exercise lengthens a person's lifespan.

Exercise allows you to do more things - you gain energy, a clearer head, and the joints between bones are developed among many other things. At the microscopic level, the individual cell walls are more porous. This increases the flow of insulin and blood sugar out of the blood stream in to the cell for use.

Diet control associated with type 2 diabetes is both important and easy. The two things to be remembered are 1) Eat what looks like it came from the ground 2) Eat less than you did to be told you have type 2 diabetes. Remove the following from your daily routine:

Food that is the result of a manufacturing process. Generally speaking, the more work that goes into the creation of a food product, the less nutrition it has. As an example, crackers cause my blood sugar to rise, sometimes taking overnight for the level to go back to normal.

Don't use much red meat. Metabolic 'ashes' build up in the digestive system and in cells with the regular use of cow, pig, and chicken. These 'ashes' increase the acidity of the body, which is a disaster.

Alcohol is powerfully destructive when drank. It breaks swiftly into sugar and adds acidity to the body as well.

Hypertension, weight gain, and type 2 diabetes are controlled when pH optimization is pursued.

Life, that is the business cells engage in, requires a very specific environment. We know about the need for ideal body temperature, fluid amount (most people are way too dry), and strong immune system. A pH level of 7.36 (slightly alkaline) is required to allow metabolism, cell work, to occur. This is chiefly controlled by the pancreas. When the requirements are too much for this organ to maintain required pH level, the body will manufacture fat cells to store acidic waste, which is the result of consuming the foods discussed.

A sure way to force type 2 diabetes for many people is to eat a lot, over a period of time, of the destructive types of food. If you are wanting a long, happy, and active life dispute type 2 diabetes, make the following changes - 1) Eat alkaline foods 2) Drink alkaline water at the rate of 1 ounce per every 2 pounds weight per day, 3) Exercise 3 times a week.

By: RR Donohue

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Russel Donohue was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1993. Life since then has been an adventure in learning about this affliction. Progress in leaving type 2 diabetes has been made by applying what has been learned. Would you like to stop it as well? You can follow in my footsteps in combating Type Two Diabetes at the link.