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One of the major complications for diabetics is the deterioration of the nervous system, which may lose sensation in the feet and not notice a wound or injury. The exercise, however, is extremely beneficial to these patients, so finding the right shoes is vital.

Diseases such as diabetes and / or arthritis should not be an impediment to exercise. Exercise has many benefits for these patients because it improves the circulation of the limbs, maintaining joint mobility, and weight control. But we also need to pay attention to find the right footwear. They must follow certain basic rules, how to avoid shoes that are too loose, too tight or too small.

The diabetic patient also should check your feet every day, wash with warm water and mild soap, dry them gently, especially between the toes, and if you find an injury visit to a doctor immediately. It is also important to add moisture cream with good quality, without applying it between her fingers. The nails can be cut in a straight line without touching the fingers, and ideally do with a file, not a nail clipper.

Best avoided at all costs going barefoot or in sandals or shoes with very high peak and how to purchase shoes in the afternoon when feet are most swollen.

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People who suffer from this disease have to carefully choose what they eat, since every choice you make can have a profound impact on their health. Diabetes strikes people of all ages, resulting in injuries and infections that usually take a long time to heal.

Also, if not properly treated, both renal failure and blindness can occur suddenly. To control its effects, diet is vital. Therefore, it is advisable to carry a vegetarian lifestyle, eating foods rich in nutrients, high in fiber and low in fat.

Keep in mind that most of the diet end up as glucose, sugar is transported by the blood to all body cells. For diabetics, the problem starts when the hormone insulin does not work correctly, being a diabetic unable to control the amount of glucose in the blood.

Against this background, what ends up happening is that insulin is not in sufficient quantities for the proper performance of the agency and distributed in an uncontrolled manner in the blood.

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Managing your blood sugar in the blood and carbs is essential for managing your diabetes (or your risk of diabetes), because carbohydrates increase blood glucose.

One way to properly manage your carbs is to count. Knowing how much carbohydrate you eat throughout the day, and follow the advice consistently every day, you will balance your blood levels of sugar in the blood. You’ll feel more energetic, and avoid the complications of diabetes by keeping your blood sugar in the blood under control.

Most foods you eat, milk and fruits to breads and cereals, contain carbohydrates. There is no way to avoid them, and have no interest in excluding them from your diet. Carbohydrates are useful as a primary source of energy for your body. You just have to avoid eating too much during the day or during a meal if you want to manage your blood sugar in the blood.

The key is therefore to better control your blood sugar in the blood by measuring the amount of carbohydrates you should eat all day. 3 tips to improve your blood sugar in the blood:

1) Determine your activity level factor for improving your blood sugar in the blood
This factor is based on your gender and activity level. More active you are (er), you can eat more calories and carbohydrates. If you can not move from your couch, your factor is “sedentary”. If you are exercising from time to time, your factor is “slightly active (er)”. If you’re exercising regularly, you are “active (er)”. If you’re exercising vigorously almost every day, you are “very active (er)”.

2) Calculate your daily calories to improve your blood sugar in the blood
For an approximation, multiply your weight by your activity level factor (previously assessed) to determine the number of calories you should eat per day to maintain your current weight (to lose 500 grams per week, you will need to reduce about 600 calories per day compared to this number).

Factor activity level x weight = calories needed

For example: A woman of 63 kg, slightly active needs about 1,950 calories per day to maintain his current weight (31 x 63 = 1953 calories, that is to say about 1950 calories). If it is thinner than 500 grams per week, she needs to eat more than 1950-600 = 1350 calories per day.

If you try to lose weight keep in mind that women should not eat less than 1200 calories per day and men should not eat less than 1500 calories per day.

3) Determine how many carbohydrates you need to improve your blood sugar
The table below assumes that 50% of the calories you consume daily come from carbohydrates. We recommend you consult a dietician to determine the best carbs for you to target. Carbohydrates can represent 40-55% of calories consumed daily.

A selection of carbohydrates in this table represents an amount of food that contains about 15 grams of carbohydrates per serving. For example, 23 ml of milk (one glass and a half) up 12 grams of carbs per glass, and therefore have a choice of carbohydrates. You will find the number of carbohydrates listed on nutrition labels of your food.

It sounds very sad hearing someone with this situation. But that doesn’t mean you can’t eat what do you want. You can follow this rules to have a healthy foods when you have the diabetes type 2.

1) Plan your meals
Carefully plan your meals and snacks can prevent other consumption “without realizing. Adults should get between 45 and 65% of their calories from carbohydrates, 10-35% from protein, and between 20-30% fat.

For some people, diet planning tools tailored for diabetics, such as counting carbohydrates and the method “create your plate” (which is to imagine imaginary boundaries on your plate to divide it into three sections, before putting Non-starchy vegetables in one section, then foods with starch and finally the meat / protein in the two other sections) can be useful in planning meals.

2) Do not assume you know everything
This is not because you have diabetes for years that nutrition education will not be useful. The author of the study found that “people with type 2 diabetes need to be back motivation nutrition education or continual reassessment of their food intake after a while.” Consult a dietician or nutritionist if you think you need to refresh your knowledge of nutrition.

3) Develop a support system
Identify a person who will somehow support your point, someone who will listen and who will provide support for healthy changes you’re trying to do. This support is important for diabetics. Ask the person to encourage you to eat healthy foods and do physical exercises regularly.

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4) Carefully select where you’ll eat
Select restaurants that specialize in healthy foods, or who are ready (and able) to replace foods high in fat with healthier foods.

5) Find tips and information online
There are very rich sources of nutritional advice dedicated to people with diabetes on the Internet. The sources that recommended by joyryderecords.com:

French Association of Diabetes * (AFD)
* Association for Research on Diabetes
* Fact Sheet on Diabetes in the World Health Organization (WHO),
French Association of Diabetes * Tasteless,
* Canadian Diabetes Association (in English)
* Diabetes Quebec
* Belgian Association of Diabetes
* Swiss Association of Diabetes
* National Association of Diabetes Coordination Networks.

In addition to refine your eating habits (read also our article “The Mediterranean Diet / Cretans also protects against diabetes”), it is important that you increase your physical activity. You should do something that requires you to move large muscles in the body (arms and legs) for at least 30 minutes, that in at least five days a week.

Just remember studies have shown that only the restriction of calories will cause a loss of lean muscle mass and body fat, while a program which consists of both physical exercise and limit the amount of calories consumed should lead to weight loss especially at the level of body fat (the physical exercises to keep the muscle mass).

The Association for Independent Medical Education to serve only health professionals and patients (Formindep) filed Monday, December 7, two appeals before the Council of State seeking the annulment of two “recommendations for good medical practice” of Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS). These recommendations focus on the treatment of type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease.

The association said that “contrary to law and rules of the HAS, many experts involved in developing these recommendations have not declared their ties with the interests of pharmaceutical companies. Other experts are so important links with the pharmaceutical companies that their participation in working groups of these recommendations should have been allowed, in particular the chairmen of these groups. ” In both cases, “Either these statements have not been made, or they have not been published,” said Mr. Bernard Fau, lawyer Formindep.

He is Professor Serge Halimi, Head of Endocrinology Diabetology Nutrition CHU de Grenoble, head of the Expert Group of the HAS recommendations on the type 2 diabetes, in 2006, when referred by the Appeal of Formindep, and Professor Florence Pasquier, a neurologist at University Hospital of Lille, who was the head of the group of experts on Alzheimer’s disease in 2008.

The HAS develop recommendations for best practices that “describe the most appropriate care to patients, given the current state of knowledge and medical practices. They “needed to doctors because they are normative and often gospel truth,” said Dr. Philip Foucras, president of Formindep. They serve as reference for the primary and continuing training of physicians, and Social Security (contracts, medical references …)

New research confirms earlier studies done that have coffee and tea substances having type II diabetes.

In the last four years have doubled as confirmed by studies researchers from the George Institute for International Health in Australia.

Based in thirty-one studies with nearly a million participants, performed a study of the effect of tea in one third of these. The results are remarkable. The coffee drinking with or without caffeine and you reduce the risk of diabetes.
The more cups daily adult consumes lower the risk of falling ill with diabetes. The risk of diabetes was reduced by 7% per cup consumed.
But researchers do not rule out that people who participated in the study have other protective properties in the body. Without recognizing that coffee or tea possesses substances that may protect against falling ill with diabetes.
You indicate that drinking tea or coffee alone is not sufficient and does not compensate for lack of exercise, overweight and poor diet.

This time we will talk about one of the most modern diseases. We refer to Diabetes, which has 2 types.

Type 1 diabetes, this name is because it occurs in younger people. In this case the body does not produce enough insulin, which requires that those affected have to constantly inject insulin to stay alive. This type of diabetes is less common, few cases you can find it.

In terms of type II diabetes, this is given. It usually occurs in older people, being from 40 years of age that usually on show.

For the latter case, treatment is needed, basically it is the maintenance of sugar levels normal standards. This recommends a new structure of the patient’s lifestyle, the filing of a healthy diet and the need for exercises. The physical weight control is another important part in the event that the specifications given by the doctor it will not be enough to resort to insulin injections in the case of type I diabetes. Avoid excess sugar is the most important of the case, the normal value of sugar depending on the individual specified by the doctor to see the case.

Among the news related to the disease, know that more and more are the children who suffer from diabetes due to obesity, and the figures are truly alarming.

Researchers at the Hospital of National Taiwan University reported new diabetes treatments through bypass surgery and gastric narrowing.

The Taiwanese doctors presented at a press conference the positive results of therapy in 60 cases of operated diabetic gastric surgery over a year ago.

“Diabetes is really a gastrointestinal disease, resulting from problems with the gastrointestinal hormones that influence insulin production, so it can be treated with gastric surgery,” said a spokesman for the doctors, Li Wei-jie.

In an experiment with 60 patients, average age 45 years, found that one year after gastric bypass surgery 93.3% had a normal blood sugar level and in the case of gastric narrowing, the proportion was 46.7%.

Researchers at the Taiwan Normal University said that with current therapies and medication, a year, only 30% of patients achieved a normal level of sugar. Read the rest of this entry »

Obesity in adolescents is associated with type 2 diabetes, hypertension and high risk of adult obesity and cardiovascular disease. Metaformin hydrochloride is commonly used to treat obesity in nondiabetic adolescents, but there is insufficient data to confirm its effectiveness as a treatment for obesity.

The scientists, led by Darrell M. Wilson, randomly assigned 77 obese adolescents aged 13 to 18 years to a program of physical activity and diet and a daily dose of metformin XR (2,000 milligrams) or placebo for 48 weeks. Of which 39 took the drug and 38 placebo. Participants were followed for an additional 48 weeks.

According to the authors, metaformin XR had a small but significant impact on BMI during the 52 weeks of the study. The average BMI increased by about 0.2 in the placebo group and decreased 0.9 in the metformin XR. The researchers note that the difference between groups was maintained between 12 and 24 weeks after cessation of study drug. Then, the average BMI of the group taking metformin increased toward the control group. Read the rest of this entry »