What did you think when your health care provider told you the results of your fasting blood sugar test and the subsequent oral glucose tolerance test? And then what did you do? Did you decide it would be OK to just leave it for a while, to just take the anti-diabetic medications and continue on with your lifestyle?

There is a lot of information on the internet and yes it is confusing… there is so much conflicting advice as to which way you should go. You heard your health care provider say you needed to lose weight. Maybe you wondered how you were going to do this because you have tried many times, and yet the weight didn’t budge. The truth is this… if you don’t lose weight, your blood sugar levels will not drop enough. Elevated blood sugar levels for long periods lead to so much damage throughout your body, and yes your lifespan will be shortened. And maybe worse than that, is how much the quality of your life will change.

Let’s take a look at some of the sobering statistics:

• the leading cause of kidney failure is diabetes… in 2002 44% of all new diabetic cases were affected
• males with diabetes are twice as likely to have sexual dysfunction as their non-diabetic counterparts
• diabetic neuropathy affects 60 to 70 per cent of people with diabetes
• each year there are up to 30,000 new cases of damage to the retina of the eye
• high blood sugar levels are also responsible for diabetes being the leading cause of blindness amongst adults aged from 24 years
• cataracts develop earlier and twice as often in people with diabetes
• both men and women have a high incidence of urinary tract and skin infections
• 60% of non-traumatic leg amputations occur in people with unstable blood sugar levels
• death due to a heart attack occurs two to four times more often in diabetics
• 75% of people with diabetes have blood pressure higher than 130/80 therefore the risk for stroke is also high

These complications are a concern even if you don’t have type 2 diabetes.

Do you know by the time you received your diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, before you had any idea you had high blood sugar levels, the seeds for these complications had already been sown. So for anywhere between seven and twelve or even more years, the beginning of some of these complications have already taken off.

Altering your eating plan, losing weight, increasing your physical activity and taking your medications if prescribed, will help lower your blood sugar levels and help reverse some of the damage. Your eating plan is the center of your type 2 diabetes treatment. Medications will not work effectively without a healthy eating plan.

It’s up to you… but you can do this, you can reverse your type 2 diabetes.

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