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I have just been told I have Type 2 diabetes and I need to find a 7 day Diet plan on the internet for free.
Miss tilly, You should meet with an endocrinologist and a dietitian.
They can help you identify foods as carbohydrates, fats and proteins.
You can learn to count your carbs to care for yourself.
We here are not professionals.
We don’t understand the consequences of your medications, age, height, activity level or weight.
Welcome to diabetes and take it slow. Nothing drastic.It takes a while to learn and you will.
Welcome
Chances are, you or someone you know has diabetes, a condition in which the body is unable to regulate blood sugar on its own. According to the American Diabetes Association, there are 20.8 million children and adults in the U.S. or 7 percent of the population, who have diabetes. While an estimated 14.6 million have been diagnosed with diabetes, unfortunately, 6.2 million people (or nearly one-third) are unaware that they have the disease.
Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce or properly use insulin, which is a hormone that is needed to convert sugar, starches and other food into energy needed for daily life. Although both genetics and environmental factors such as obesity and lack of exercise appear to play a role, the actual cause of diabetes remains a mystery.
In most cases, diabetes does not strike until adulthood. People who get little exercise and are overweight are at an increased risk of developing what is known as Type 2 diabetes (Type 1 diabetes is detected on childbirth). The good news is that due to science research and developments in treatment, it is easier than ever to live with it.
Since with diabetes, the body is unable to produce or properly use insulin, sugar and fat remain in the blood, causing fatigue, frequent urination, excessive thirst and irritability. The disease can drastically affect a person’s day-to-day life, as he or she might experience difficulties in concentrating, which can affect work performance, or may suffer from anxiety and/or depression. Left untreated, diabetes can lead to organ and nerve damage and increase a person’s risk of heart disease, stroke and blindness.
The key to managing diabetes is keeping your blood sugar levels stable. You can do this by eating a healthy diet, exercising regularly and keeping your weight in check, but, in order to succeed, you may also need insulin injections. Studies show that patients who keep their blood sugar levels close to normal may experience fewer diabetes-related complications and lead healthier lives. But experts indicate that the sooner you get your blood sugar under control, the better you will be.
Thus, you should work with your doctor to create a treatment plan that is right for you. If you need insulin, tell your doctor how often you exercise and eat and what your usual Diet contains or what times you eat. Also mention which medications and vitamins you take, if any. This will help your doctor determine what type of insulin is best for you and what your dosage should be. Keep in mind that your insulin dosage will likely be adjusted many times until the best level for your case is reached, but you will soon be on the road to feeling like yourself again if you follow doctors’ advice and keep your diet healthy, you exercise regularly and you maintain a constant sleeping pattern.
Jonathon Hardcastle
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Type 1 diabetes, commonly called juvenile diabetes, usually affects children and young adults. It’s generally accepted to be a genetic disorder, though this is not always the case.
The pancreas, responsible for producing insulin necessary to get glucose out of the bloodstream and into the cells of the body, fails to function. This leads to a rise in blood sugar. If it’s not treated, high blood sugar can damage the heart, kidneys and impair circulation to the extremities of the body. Ultimately death results.
While there’s mo single reason for pancreatic failure, it is believed that genetics can predispose a child to getting type 1 diabetes. What is known is that the insulin producing beta cells of the pancreas are destroyed or injured mostly by the body’s own immune system. What triggers this destruction isn’t known.
Genetics does play a part in getting the disease but it is now believed that an improper diet, environmental factors and lifestyle are more responsible in bringing about the disease.
Genetics only accounts for five to ten percent of those who develop diabetes. It is assumed to set the stage for getting the disease. An improper lifestyle could become the trigger that leads to the destruction of the beta cells in the pancreas. Fewer than 10 percent of children and young adults who have a genetic risk factor actually go on to develop type 1 diabetes.
If genetics were the real factor, then identical twins would both develop the disease. But this does not always happen. Another factor that genetics does not always play a part in the development of the disease is based on the three to tenfold increase in type 1 diabetes that has occurred in the world in the past 40 years. This cannot be explained by genetics.
The disease occurs mostly during the puberty phase, usually between 10 to 12 years in girls and 12 to 14 in boys and affects more Caucasian types than other racial groups. This trend is often reversed with type 2 affecting blacks, Hispanics, Asians and native Americans.
Whatever the cause, the beta cells of the pancreas are destroyed making it impossible to produce adequate amounts of insulin necessary to move glucose out of the bloodstream. In order to maintain a healthy life, type 1 diabetics need to rely on insulin injections for blood sugar control for the rest of their lives.
Diabetes consist of two types of diabetes. Of the two, type 1 accounts for only 5 to 10 percent of all cases, the remaining being type 2.
The symptoms of type 1 diabetes are the same as those who have type 2. Excessive urination, excessive thirst or hunger, dryness of the mouth and fatigue are some of the common symptoms. If diabetes is not treated, complications arise. These include blindness, nerve damage to hands and feet, kidney damage and heart disease. Death results as the major organs cannot cope with the sugar overload.
Since juvenile diabetes strikes at an early age, those affected need to take special care of themselves. A natural Diet and exercise helps to manage blood sugar better and reduce the frequency and amount of insulin needed to control glucose. Eye, foot and skin care are important. Monitoring of heart and oral health need to be addressed. Natural supplements such as bitter melon and gymnema sylvestre and vanadium can help control blood sugar.
Like type 2 diabetics, type 1 need to watch what they eat. Our foods are highly processed and consist of various chemicals and preservatives that can have a damaging effect on life and may be the one reason why the body’s immune system attacks and destroys the pancreas’ ability to produce insulin.
Taking vitamin and mineral supplements are a necessity as most fruits and vegetables come from farms whose soil is depleted of essential nutrients. Taking a daily intake of 600 to 1200 mg of a high quality fish oil can help prevent the onset of type 1 diabetes.
Much can be done to help children and keep them from developing type 1 diabetes. But taking preventive measures now by changing the diet can help your children to grow up healthy and avoid the devastating effects of this disease.
Mario Carini
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Now a days diabetes treatment has become a common disease among people. It is caused due to mismanagement of carbohydrate metabolism inside the body. Diabetes is identified with the excessive production of urine, hunger, thirst and excessive loss of weight, blurred vision, and delay in healing of skin, repeated infection, and excessive fatigue.
Diabetes has got a serous issue of human health. It denotes sugar in blood and urine very excessively.
So, when it comes to treatment of diabetes the main concern should be given to control blood sugar, which is main cause of diabetes.Managing blood sugar is the stepping-stone of this diabetes treatment program.
To remove the complications of diabetes one must take it seriously and adopt some good diet process or healthy exercise.
Apart from doing so some take insulin and any other type of medication program to be cured to some extent. Frequent testing of blood sugar can denote you how much you have improved on your part to manage suitable
measure of sugar in blood.
It is very important to learn the right range of glucose in blood unless and until you cannot have the idea about the complication you are facing about this disease. It depends on age mainly such as in younger age assuming not much complication is there the suitable range of glucose is 80-120 mg/dL and in older age it is 100-140 mg/dL.
Diabetes program includes some specific self-treatments like having good and suitable Diet, having proper exercise, maintaining healthy weight and medication. When it is about good and suitable diet it does not make any suggestion to take all dull food which are not of your interest rather it denotes to have more fruits, vegetables and grains that means you should be conscious in taking the foods of high nutrition and lower fat and calories. Avoid taking sweets and animal
products with no limit. The main part of this diabetes treatment program is that you own self should be challenging in this task otherwise this program will be harder enough.
Consult any dietitian about meal plan and try to maintain it at the fixed times every day with same amount according to your diet plan.
On the part of having proper exercise you should be cautious about all aerobic exercises. In this diabetes treatment program you can make your choices among the daily exercises like doing morning or evening walk,
jogging, hiking, biking, swimming and any other exercises of heart and lungs. Remember giving consistency to your exercise process is very important to get the best result through it.
Try to maintain weight according to your activity level and age because overweight is dangerous factor which help to make your cells more resistant to insulin. Making suitable weight loss plan and going according to that can make its result more effectively.
Sometimes medication takes a very important role in case where it is found that good dieting and exercise are not fulfilling it purpose.
This type of diabetes program includes the insert of insulin as per requirement. As it can’t be taken in form of pill some people have it injected by syringe or some have it with insulin pump.
So now it is very clear that diabetes is always manageable if the sufferer give a serious daily attention to it. Although diabetes stands for life long suffering, yet it never means the end of your life. You
just have to remember that the disease will be in your control only and only if you are self disciplined for your each and every step of treatment program.
Gaetane Ross
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Being diagnosed with diabetes usually means adjusting your daily routine and adapting a diabetes management plan. For example, depending on the type of diabetes that you have, you might have to plan your medication to fit in with your meals. That is not necessarily as big an adjustment as it might seem. Most of the time, it will only involve remembering to take your medication before, during or after your meal, provided that your meals are spaced at regular intervals. Treatment and diabetes management is an obvious step in coping with diabetes, but Diet and exercise can also have a big role to play.
Diabetes is a health problem in which there is not enough glucose in your blood to regulate your blood sugar levels. There are three main types of diabetes. If you have type 1 diabetes, it means that your body does not create enough insulin to regulate your blood sugar levels. Usually this is because the insulin cells in your pancreas have been destroyed, and your body can no longer produce enough insulin. It is also known as insulin dependent diabetes, as regular insulin injections are currently the only available treatment. Type 1 diabetes rarely occurs after the age of 40.
If you have type 2 diabetes, your body does produce insulin, but it is not used efficiently enough to control your blood sugar levels. It is also known as non-insulin dependent diabetes, as treatment can come in the form of tablets, as well as insulin injections. Diet and exercise have a huge role in controlling type 2 diabetes, and can sometimes control it without the need for other types of treatment. Type 2 diabetes does not usually develop until after the age of 40, although it has been known to occur in people who are much younger than that.
Diabetes can also occur in pregnant women of any age. This is known as gestational diabetes. Although it is mostly only temporary, and will disappear after you have given birth, some women with gestational diabetes will go on to become a type 2 diabetic when they are older.
Your diet can have a big impact on your blood sugar levels and your diabetes management plan. It is important for diabetics to keep their blood sugar levels to an acceptable level - if they are too high or too low, it can cause medical problems. It is vital that you follow a balanced diet with lots of fresh fruit and vegetables. Cut down on food that contains lots of starch and carbohydrates. Contrary to what you might think, it is actually carbohydrates, not sugar, which have an effect on your blood sugar levels. Any foods that are rich in carbohydrates are going to increase your blood sugar levels so it is essential that you limit the amount of bread, pasta and potatoes that you eat. You should still eat some carbohydrates, but keep an eye on how much. Generally, carbohydrates and starchy foods should be eaten at the start of meals.
Marlon Dirk
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I’m curious about this. I’ve been on a gestational diabetes diet very strictly for the last month. My blood sugars are very under control, no sugar in the urine, and I’m managing it with diet and exercise. But I am wondering what would happen if I cheated once. Does anyone know? My doctor seems to believe I already cheat here and there (can’t believe I haven’t had a taste of chocolate or soda since he told me.) He only slightly believes me because my blood sugars, even the ones he surprises me with, are always lower than the targets.
So… what would happen if I cheated?
No one knows to be honest.
First, one time cheating is probably not going to kill the baby, cause the baby to have deformities (especially if you’re in the last trimester like most gestational diabetic moms), or hurt the baby. It WILL make the baby create more insulin to combat the higher blood sugar. The more times that a baby makes more insulin for themselves like that, the more danger they are in of putting on weight and having problems when born. But just one time of blood sugar spiking is not likely to hurt them (if it did, then doctors wouldn’t dare do the glucose challenge tests on pregnant women.)
And of course the more control you have over it then the less likely one time cheating is to hurt. I mean, if you’re having to use insulin to try and control it, then your blood sugars are probably higher at times than you know, and it’s not worth the risk.
However, if something DID happen, would you forgive yourself? Because you couldn’t wait a few months?
There are ways to ’safely cheat’ if you really need something sweet. Some sweetners don’t raise blood sugar, but you have to be careful with those when pregnant, still it may be safer to do that one time than to raise your blood sugars. And of course you can always work your Diet around fruits, fruit snacks, roll-ups, etc. Like if you’re dying for pie, then getting a pumpkin pie and having a small piece as a part of your dinner, then exercising afterwards, may let you cheat without having your blood raise.
its so confusing…im trying to help out my uncle with his diabetes and we are both confused about the numbers and percentages and carbs and blah blah blah…i just want to help him out
I can’t count carbs . either. But I do use a low glycemic Diet. I can understand what to eat and what not. http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm
This table includes the glycemic index and glycemic load of more than 2,480 individual food items. Not all of them, however, are available in the United States. They represent a true international effort of testing around the world.
The glycemic index (GI) is a numerical system of measuring how much of a rise in circulating blood sugar a carbohydrate triggers–the higher the number, the greater the blood sugar response. So a low GI food will cause a small rise, while a high GI food will trigger a dramatic spike. A list of carbohydrates with their glycemic values is shown below. A GI is 70 or more is high, a GI of 56 to 69 inclusive is medium, and a GI of 55 or less is low.
The glycemic load (GL) is a relatively new way to assess the impact of carbohydrate consumption that takes the glycemic index into account, but gives a fuller picture than does glycemic index alone. A GI value tells you only how rapidly a particular carbohydrate turns into sugar. It doesn’t tell you how much of that carbohydrate is in a serving of a particular food. You need to know both things to understand a food’s effect on blood sugar. That is where glycemic load comes in. The carbohydrate in watermelon, for example, has a high GI. But there isn’t a lot of it, so watermelon’s glycemic load is relatively low. A GL of 20 or more is high, a GL of 11 to 19 inclusive is medium, and a GL of 10 or less is low.
Foods that have a low GL almost always have a low GI. Foods with an intermediate or high GL range from very low to very high GI.
Both GI and GL are listed here. The GI is of foods based on the glucose index–where glucose is set to equal 100. The other is the glycemic load, which is the glycemic index divided by 100 multiplied by its available carbohydrate content (i.e. carbohydrates minus fiber) in grams. (The "Serve size (g)" column is the serving size in grams for calculating the glycemic load; for simplicity of presentation I have left out an intermediate column that shows the available carbohydrates in the stated serving sizes.) Take, watermelon as an example of calculating glycemic load. Its glycemic index is pretty high, about 72. According to the calculations by the people at the University of Sydney’s Human Nutrition Unit, in a serving of 120 grams it has 6 grams of available carbohydrate per serving, so its glycemic load is pretty low, 72/100*6=4.32, rounded to 4.
Also he must exercise . That is one of the key elements in controlling diabetes
Expecially for type 2 diabetes.
Tin
well today i just found out i have diabetes. and im pregnant so that really is no good for my baby. but can someone else who has diabetes give me an example of a shopping list for people with diabetes cus i really want to follow through on eating right. not jsut for me but for the lil one inside of me.
All Wheat, everything Diet (Diet is better for you than light if you read the labels), less sodium, and more fat free items.
Diabetes causes many other problems so if you have a lot of fat, sodium, and carbs your blood vessels can be damaged and you will have many other health problems.. Too much fat is bad for the heart.
It’s difficult!
Good Luck
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