Diabetes is a disease in which the body cannot regulate the amount of glucose in the blood. People who have diabetes either cannot produce insulin or their body cannot properly use the insulin. If your body does not produce insulin and if your body cannot properly use the insulin, the cells in your body are harmed.

Cells need the sugar for fuel and insulin helps the cells to use the sugar more efficiently to convert the sugar to energy. If the sugar is not properly processed by the cells, it stays in the bloodstream and the high blood sugar levels causes problems for the major organs.

In most cases the high blood sugar levels can be controlled by two (2) things: (1) a strict diet, following a regular schedule and (2) exercise.

Are you willing to eat the foods you should eat and avoid the ones you should not eat?

Are you willing to exercise regularly? Those are the two questions you must consider and those are the two things you must change in your life if you want to control your diabetes without medications and insulin shots.

You must give up white sugar, white flour, processed foods, and junk food. You must avoid any food with sugar in it, starchy vegetables, soft drinks, cream and fried foods. Any food that contains harmful preservatives and a lot of salt should be avoided.

Avoiding sugar means you need to avoid eating cake, pie, cobblers, ice-creams and chocolates, including the sugar-free ones. If it has sugar in it, you must avoid it. Even sugar free foods have a lot of carbohydrates. Carbohydrates turn into sugar in the body and sugar cannot be processed properly in your body because of the diabetes. This will cause your blood sugar to rise within 30 minutes after eating it.

Besides watching what you eat, you must increase your physical activity daily. It is essential to your health to start a regular exercise program. Exercise will help you achieve and maintain a healthy weight as well to reduce the risk of the complications of diabetes.

Remember also that alcohol can cause blood sugar levels to spike. It should be drank in moderation. Too much alcohol can increase triglyceride levels as well as increase blood sugar levels.

Another product you have to watch is cigarettes. Smoking cigarettes or using other forms of tobacco can have an adverse effect on your body and raise the risks of your having complications from diabetes. Smoking damages blood vessels and definitely makes your risk for heart disease, stroke and circulation problems greater.

Complications from diabetes can be severe. If blood sugar levels remain high and are not controlled by diet, exercise and/or medications you could be faced with heart disease, circulation and cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, eye disease, stroke, amputation and even death.

It is in your best interest to control your diabetes and keep your blood sugar levels low. Do not become a victim of diabetes. Fight back and beat this terrible disease. Stop it so you can live a long healthy life!

Take care until next time.

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