Treatment against diabetes: know your options

What is the secret to control his diabetes? Know your treatment options! The main treatment of diabetes and ways to profit.

Changing lifestyles

This is the first step in the treatment of type 2 diabetes (the type where the body does not produce enough insulin or does not respond well to the insulin it produces). This step is also part of the treatment with insulin for people with type 1 diabetes (where the body produces no insulin).

You want to maximize the change in your lifestyle? Just like a Hollywood star, you will pay much attention to your eating and exercising. Here are some lifestyle changes that can help control your diabetes:

* Exercise. In addition to helping you to feel good about yourself and improve your physical appearance, the exercise will help you maintain your weight and control your blood sugar, in addition to reducing your risk of suffering from a heart disease and give you an energy boost.
* Follow a meal plan designed for diabetics. Consult a dietitian to create a personalized healthy meal plan. Most plans are to reduce consumption of fat, salt and sugar and consume more fiber, protein and low fat foods with low GI (glycemic index measures the rate increase blood sugar in a food) such as lentils and couscous.
* Stop smoking. Smoking not only causes cancer. This habit also destroys blood vessels. Diabetes also damages them, which explains why smoking and diabetes is a very bad combination.

Against diabetes, bet on the greens

A balanced diet rich in fruits and vegetables, has long been part of advice on nutrition to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. Studies are now going further ...

Cons of type 2 diabetes, only green vegetables protect

The first publication (1), a meta-study (the researchers grouped all value studies done on the subject and have converted their results to achieve a result that says the state of science on the subject), the effects of increased consumption of fruits, vegetables or both are not significant with regard to type 2 diabetes. In contrast, individuals who consume more green leafy vegetables (like spinach or chard) saw their risk of developing type 2 diabetes reduced by 14%.

Why the greens are they useful against diabetes?

The reasons why green vegetables help fight against type 2 diabetes are not known very clearly. Historically, scientists believed that the antioxidant activity of vegetables that prevents some chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, by fighting against free radicals which has been shown that they can cause an early onset. But the leafy greens are among the richest in antioxidants ...

The siesta in the afternoon and diabetes?

The siesta in the afternoon increases the risk of diabetes mellitus type 2, announce the scholars of the University of Birmingham (Great Britain).

Having conducted a wide search of 16 thousand people involved, scientists have concluded: napping increases the risk of type 2 diabetes by 26%.

Scientists have two versions of the evolution of events: it may be that sleep during the afternoon shortens its duration during the night which is itself a risk factor for diabetes.

It is also possible that during recovery hormones that lower insulin levels, are activated. "Although sleep increases the risk of diabetes, poor heredity and obesity contribute much more," the scientists explain.


With this, we will continue looking for the negative effect of sleep in the afternoon with the exchange of sugar.

Fototastin, a new drug against obesity and diabetes

Obesity is on the outside that cause heart troubles, respiratory and psychological is the main cause diabetes, because to become obese is consumed large quantities of food rich in sugars that are destabilizing in general the normal level sugar in a person.

Fortunately now all those who suffer from these diseases can kill two birds with one shot as we used to say, with a new drug supposedly fototastin, focusing in attacking the genetic causes of the obesity or diabetes, which in most cases have a common indicator.

The drug was tested on obese mice and succeeded in blocking increases in body fat in rodents, in turn after four weeks the mice were used in the project have lost 12 percent of their extra body fat with which has been verified that the drug is successful.

Salih Wakil, one of the creators of this drug association hopes to launch a corporation to market the product and the power to help shape this million hours of people with not only overload the United States but throughout the world, it has consolidated.

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