November is recognized as National Diabetes Month. Highlighting the disease helps bring awareness and education about what it is, and how it can be managed. It is important to know that while diabetes has no cure, we can help to fight the onset and minimize the symptoms that can occur.
Diabetes is a condition where the sugar in the blood, or blood glucose elevates and become difficult to manage. Either a person has Type 1 diabetes, where they make little to no insulin, or, Type 2 where the body has difficulty utilizing insulin effectively.
Although the onset of the two types does differ, it is important to know that both are managed similarity.
- Exercise- Daily exercise at least 30 mins a day. Try for more!
- Meal Planning/Diet- Eat a well balanced diet limited salts, sugars,and low calories. Remember to keep foods whole!
- Blood sugar testing
- No Smoking- Smoking can increase risk of heart problems and poor circulation.
While the risk for diabetes has greatly increased over the years, it’s important that you take the preventative measures that you can to lessen your own risk.
The Mayo Clinic gives a few tips to take steps in lessening your chance of developing diabetes. Getting moderate exercise daily, eating whole grains and fiber, managing your weight, and not dieting! When developing a routine with consist and habits, this is very much achievable. You are able to take control on your health and body!
As we spread Awareness this month in dealing with diabetes, let us learn information that may help the lives of others improve. Let us educate ourselves to the disease for our own health as well. And if we are the one personally dealing with the disease let us remain the healthiest version of ourself that we can do alongside the communal support of others!
References
American Diabetes Association (2017). Diabetes Basics. Retrieved from http://
www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/type-1/?loc=db-slabnav
Mayo Clinic (2016). Diabetes Prevention: 5 tips for taking control. Retrieved from
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/type-2-diabetes/in-depth/diabetes-prevention/art-20047639?pg=1
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (2016).
Managing Diabetes . Retrieved from https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/diabetes/overview/managing-diabetes
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