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Living with type 2 diabetes means being aware of your blood sugar level, controlling it and what put it out of wack through evaluation, thought, and action. Because this is something not done by most people it can be seen as hard, especially when 'tight' control is required.
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.
Insulin addition by injection is required in some individuals after meals. The amount of insulin needed has to be calculated based on current blood sugar level and the potential of the food eaten.
If the normal balance of blood sugar is not maintained, consequences include mental depression, lack of energy, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, pain and numbness in hands and feet, inability to heal from wounds, and in the latter stages, amputation of extremities that no longer have sufficient blood circulation.
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. The use of glucose by the bodies cells becomes less effective without regular exercise. Exercise is a basic human body use. It occurs through the use of glucose (blood sugar) to provide energy to move. If this energy isn't used, it must be stored (ultimately as fat) or flushed out in other destructive fashions, resulting in possible kidney and / or liver failure from over use.
Weight control is essential for people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Obesity is a common path to type 2 diabetes diagnosis. 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. The additional insulin requirement isn't kept up with by the pancreas, resulting in high blood sugar levels.
Exercise 3 times a week for 30 minutes each time improves the form of the body as well as improving the functions of the individual cells. In any person, diabetic or not, it's been proven that exercise lengthens a person's lifespan.
On the large scale, exercise provides a person with more energy, make the joints in your skeleton work better - in short, provides an ability to do more things, think clearer as well. 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.
Control of your diet is important with type 2 diabetes and two things should be remembered - Eat what looks like it came from the ground, and eat less food. Some things should be removed from your daily life:
Food that comes from a factory. The more of man's work that goes into a food product, the less nutritional value is in it can be a general rule. I know from my personal experience that crackers spike my blood sugar, taking a day or so to settle down.
Red meat: Don't use much at all. Eating cow, pig, and chicken on a regular basis builds up unusable metabolic 'ashes' in the digestive system and cells as well as increasing the acidity of your blood stream (more on acidity later).
Another issue is alcohol. It breaks down to sugar quickly and in the process adds acidity.
Focusing on pH optimization has helped many people control type 2 diabetes, weight gain, and hypertension.
Life, that is the business cells engage in, requires a very specific environment. Some of the obvious ones include adequate fluids (most people are dry), ideal body temperature, and good immunity. A less known requirement is that of pH level. Cell work (metabolism) will not occur other than at pH 7.36, slightly alkaline. The pH level of the body is 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.
Most people got type 2 diabetes by eating both too much and the wrong kinds of food. If you are wanting a long, happy, and active life despite 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.
