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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.

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.

The dangers of ecstasy on the brain are again pointing the finger. Its consumption ecstasy increases the risk of developing a severe form of sleep apnea, according to a study conducted by researchers at John Hopkins University in the United States.

These results are even more alarming that they involve young adults in good health and no history of sleep disorders.

Among the 150 volunteers, half were consumer and the other not. Scientists have found a similar proportion of patients with mild apnea in both groups. In contrast, only ecstasy users exhibited severe forms. Ecstasy then produces a toxic effect on neurons producing serotonin.

Cognitive decline, increased risk of diabetes, and especially death by cardiac arrest … These are just some of the many consequences of sleep apnea.