can diabetes be totally controlled by diet?
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It has a lot to do with the type of diabetes that you have. Type 1 diabetes is not controllable with diet, simply because the body is not producing any insulin. In Type 1, you have to inject insulin to survive. \nType 2 diabetes is very controllable with diet in some cases. If your case is mild and in good control, then you can keep your levels in check just by watching what you eat. \nFollow your doctor's prescribed treatment plan though. If you are prescribed medication, don't stop taking it and attempt to use just diet to treat. Keep taking your meds if you are on any. And, before you alter your diet any, talk to your doctor... just to make sure that you have everything you need. \n\nGood luck and best wishes...
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though it is a medical thing.. i shoudnt be giving you any advice.. but my mother has high diabetes and she takes insulin 5 times a day.\nShe was able to bring her sugar level down.\nShe stopped eating fried product and butter.  No more sugar... not even in tea or coffee.. just whole grain products like brown bread and brown rice...\nI bought her a small puppy.. and she goes with him for walk.. which is very healthy.\nShe eats loads of green vegetable.. \nand takes medicine regularly... just a little ocntrol on your diet and little exercise will help it . You should go to a dietician and do a diet list:)\n\ngood luck
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Get your diabetes under control and lose weight.
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Cut back on sugar and fats. Sugars become fat if you don't burn them off. Also, try to exercise more. If you are type 2, chances are you can control your sugar with diet, exercise and maybe some prescriptions. But you have to be careful because you don't want to become insulin dependent. Also, diabetes can lead to other serious health problems if not taken care of. But most people with Type 2 live normal lives.\nGood luck!
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Food Therapy should be followed under the supervision from your doctor. Check your sugar level frequently so that sugar levels do not go beyond the recommended level\n\nFoods to avoid\n\nIt is always advisable to avoid some foods if you are diabetic such as refined sugar, sweets, syrups, glucose, jam, molasses, fruit sugar, ice-cream, cakes, pastries, sweet biscuits, chocolates, soft drinks, condensed milk, cream and fried foods. Fats like butter, ghee and hydrogenated vegetable oil should also be avoided. White sugar and white flour should be reduced drastically. Avoid all processed foods, junk food, pastries, cookies, canned and preserved foods. They contain harmful preservatives and lot of salt. Avoid soft drinks since these have a lot of sugar. Try to avoid fried foods from your diet. Smoking results in the using up of oxygen in the body. It will result in less of oxygen needed by the body to metabolize glucose. So smoking should be avoided.\n\nFoods to be limited\n\nSalt consumption should be reduced to a minimum. You will get enough salt form the vegetables and fruits you eat. Reduce animal foods especially red meats. Reduce poultry and egg. Reduce caffeine and alcohol. Do not drink tea and coffee more than 2 cups a day. Try to replace it with green tea or herbal teas like Parsley tea, Blueberry leaf, Tea made of tender walnut tree leaves, Water in which kidney bean pods have been cooked is good diabetes.\n\nDo not consume alcohol in empty stomach. Alcohol on an empty stomach can cause low blood glucose or hypoglycemia.Foods that should be consumed in moderation are honey and other natural sugars like palm sugar, dates which can be used instead of white sugar. Remember these should be consumed in very little quantity only.Pasta, coconut, other nuts, unsweetened juices, eggs should be limited. You can replace it with whole grain, unpolished rice and Soya products. Try to eat whole grain bread instead of white flour. Fats like olive oil and peanut oil are more advisable that hydrogenated fats. Low fat food like skimmed milk and low fat home made cottage cheese can be taken in moderation. You can also substitute it with yoghurt. Sea food and fish also can be taken in moderation.\n\nFoods to be taken\n\nDrink at least 8 glasses of water a day. An alkaline diet with natural food is recommended. Wholegrain, fruits, nuts, vegetables, and dairy products form a good diet for the diabetic. Raw vegetables can be taken in high quantities. It has been found that cooked foods raise blood glucose higher than raw, unpeeled foods. Cooking destroys many of the enzymes and some vitamins and minerals.\n\nEat at least five fruits every day. Fruits like grape fruit, pomegranate juice, Indian blackberry, banana, granny smith apples, fig, cranberries, black berry, kiwi fruits, and citrus fruits are highly recommended. It can be taken as a snack. Cucumber, Lettuce, onion, garlic string beans cucumber radish, tomato, carrot, leaves; spinach turnip, cabbage and Jerusalem artichoke are good for diabetes. Colorful vegetables are good for the functioning of pancreas. Drink Fruit juices without sugar. Brewer’s yeast and sprouted alfalfa and mung beans are good for the body. Unripe banana also can be cooked and eaten.\n\nThe most important of all is eating high fiber diet which lowers need for insulin. It releases energy into the body slowly. It has also been found that diabetes decreases and may even disappear in people eating a high fiber or whole food diet. High fiber diet has more chromium and chromium is very good for people with diabetes. Eat lot of potassium rich foods like raw peanuts, tomato, bananas, melons, dried peas, potatoes, apple cider vinegar, skimmed milk powder, wheat but do not take potassium supplements.\n\nInclude soluble fiber in your meals like barley, oatmeal, almond meal, dried beans, kidney beans, cooked black beans, peas, cereals, chickpeas, Bengal gram which has low glycemic index, , Black gram, lentils and corn or garban
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Type 1 - no\n\nType 2 - maybe.  There are studies which indicate that people who eat a lot of high glycemic foods (sugar is one) develop type 2 diabetes as a result of the constant assault on their pancreas.\n\nYou'd be wise to buffer your sugar with protein or eat smaller amounts several hours apart.
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The statistics on developing diabetes are if you have one parent with diabetes the children have a 50% risk of developing diabetes within their lifetime.  If both parents are diabetic, they have a 100% risk of developing diabetes within their lifetime.  This doesn't mean you can't hold it at bay.  A well balanced meal plan,  good exercise program, and being diligent with annual checkups will help keep diabetes from developing, and/or reduce its devastating effects.  Have you had yourself checked for diabetes yet?  Diabetes does have serious effects on kidneys.  You can go to the ADA website for more information concerning diabetes.  www.diabetes.org.  Good luck.
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You can always eat a healthy  diet along with the rest of your family if you follow the below guidelines:\nPlanning your family meals ahead of time so you can enjoy the same foods as other family members. \nProviding lots of variety in the foods you eat so it's easier to follow your plan. \nTesting your blood sugar after meals to see what effect different foods have on your blood sugar level. \n\nRegarding your initial question, you may use more wheat, less sugar, limited rice, pleny of fresh and green vegetables and the list goes on...\nSince in diabetes your protien, carbohydrate and fat metabolism is affected, you need to eat not just less carb, but a healthy balanced meal...You may consult with a dietician who help you in menu planning
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Absolutely not!  Eating sugar does not induce/cause diabetes.  I'm surprised at the number of 'so-called' professionals who go on about how sugar and eating sweets can cause diabetes.  It's only because the person becomes obese, and their pancreas can't produce enough insulin, or the insulin that they do produce isn't able to be used effectively, that they become diabetic.\n\nHaving said that, diabetes is caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors.  Eating a diet high in fat and sugar can cause you to become overweight.  Being overweight increases your risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, so if you have a history of diabetes in your family, a healthy diet and regular exercise are recommended to control your weight.\n\nAs for your second question about sugar substitutes, too much of them can have a laxative effect on people, so be careful how much of those you take.  (You are aware that sugar substitutes are actually sweeter than sugar, aren't you?  This means that you wouldn't need anywhere near as much to get the same effect.)\n\nBest of luck.
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Scientific evidence indicates that diets high in sugars do not cause diabetes. The most common type of diabetes occurs in overweight adults. Avoiding sugars alone will not correct overweight. To lose weight, reduce the total amount of calories from the food you eat and increase your level of physical activity.
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No.\n\nType 1 diabetes is an auto-immune disease, like some kinds of arthritis or lupus. It requires an inherited susceptibility (traced to certain kinds of HLA antigens), and a trigger. the trigger is usually infection from any of several things, commonly viruses. German measles is one, as are several members of the Coxsackie virus family. During such an infection, the immune system 'learns' to attack cells with certain surface markers, and beta cells have such markers. At least that's the current best idea of what ususally happens. The beta cells get killed (having the wrong markers) and that ends your internal insulin production. Food has nothing to do with it. \n\nType 2 diabetes is more complex. It is strongly inherited, but is also influenced by environment. Those carrying more weight than they should, and the elderly, are more likely to get it. Hence its older names: obesity-related and adult-onset diabetes. It has recently been discovered that fat tissue, especially fat tissue around the abdominal organs (but not on thighs or hips or chins or ...) produce several hormones, just like the endocrine glands. Some of those hormones affect other cells, and one of them makes them  more resistant to insulin. That is, when insulin is present, it's harder for those cells to take up glucose from the blood. This is insulin resistance and it's at the heart of Type 2 diabetes. Some can be treated with diet, exercise, and supervision; some require all that and oral medications as well; some require insulin, perhaps in addition to an oral medication. \n\nObiously, it's not only sugar which can cause fat like this. Overeating anything, perhaps especially fats, can cause weight gain. Ther's nothing special about weight gain from sugar as opposed to weight from the fat in meats. \nAnyone who eats enough to become a little thick here and there has increased their chance of getting Type 2. Lack of exercise seems to be significant as well. So, whether it's sugar or anything else that you eat too much of, you can increase your chance of getting Type 2. \n\nThe only direct effect of sugar is a speculative one. In the extreme pure sugar (or sugar in solution, like a soft drink) will go into the bloodstream very quickly. This will cause a rapid rise in blood glucose level, and perhaps to a high spike in that level. There is some speculation that too many cases of such rapid spikes causes damage to beta cells in the pancreas or to other cells, in such a way as to increase the chance of developing Type 2 diabetes. Thus far, there only suspicions along this line as an experimental study to test this prediction would be difficult to design and carry out. Not to mention expensive. No drug company will finance such a study as there is no prospect of a salable drug resulting. \n\nIt's probably best to avoid 'empty calories' in any case. The classic examples are soft drinks which are basically nothing but flavored sugar water. Check the nutrient label the next time you see a soft drink bottle.
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pretty much all the diets today are based on a form of atkins-south beach dietetc..most diabetics are on the same type of thing. They must control their carb intake carefully so it cant be that dangerous...there are a few very sick people who may not be able to follow Atkins safely-severe kidney damage perhaps-check w doctor if you are chronically ill.  I've lost on 20lbs it but after a while I got off and went to bad habits-that happens with a lot of dieters.  There is an emotional impact of eating and one needs to confront that and not blame the specific diet.Im getting back to it now and am losing more slowly as I accept I have some lapses from time to time But it is a really good way to cut off sugar if you are addicted to that. The protein and fats keep you satisfied so you can break the habit since you arent that hungry all the time yo can pass up sugar...with less struggle but you need to be ready to at least try. \nNo sugar is the best advice for us all, but a few people can just  reduce a ltille bit of all foods and do well-they are not carb cravers or those of us who cannto stop at one piece etc. \nWhole grains and other low glycemic index  can be introduced once a person loses and is on maintenance or you cna lose slowly by starting out just reducing carbs little by little A lot of people need more drastic to reduce cravings for bread etc.
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Any person can get diabetes, regardless of body size or shape. Life sty can increase your chances of getting it if you eat a diet with a lot of refined sugar and/or are physically inactive. With diabetes, your body simply loses it's ability to process insulin correctly and your sugar levels rise dangerously.
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If you have Type 1 diabetes you can not get rid of it.  You do need to work with your doctor to establish a routine to be as healthy as possible.\n\nIf you are Type 2 you may be able to control your diabetes with exercise, a good nutrition plan, and monitoring.  It is possible to reduce your need for oral medication.\n\nI have been a type 1 for 20 years.  It can be handled but it is something that must be paid attention to.
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1)  Don't smoke or take tobacco products.  2)  Keep your blood pressure down to normal.  3)  If you are diabetic, control it extremely well.  A deficiency of chromium has been proven to cause some type II diabetes.  A supplement of 200 micrograms a day of chromium picolinate will remedy this.  4)  check your cholesterol, your good cholesterol (HDL) and the bad cholesterol (LDL).  You want to maximize the HDL and minimize the LDL.  Also, check the triglycerides, and minimize them.  If fat, you want to get the weight down and keep it down.  Regular exercise, even just walking a mile nonstop 3 times a week will help your cholesterol.  GET OFF ALL trans fats.  Trans fats are partially hydrogenated oils, contained in shortening, margarine, and many processed foods. Keep the total amount of fat in your diet fairly low.  Keep off all trans fats.  Next most important is to keep the saturated fats low.  Then the total fats low.  Don't eat junk food, which is food high in sugar, refined flour, and fat.  Eat lots of whole grain cereals and breads and pastas.  Eat lots of vegetables and fruits, and some lean meats and fish.  5) check your homocysteine level.  If high, take 2 mg of folic acid per day (3 of the big 800 microgram tablets).  6)  If you can't drink alcohol without drinking heavy, then abstain totally from alcohol.  Otherwise, take one or two glasses of dry red wine each evening.  7)  consider taking one adult aspirin per day to reduce blood clots, esp. if over 50 years old or strong family history.  8)  Get plenty of the essential (required in diet) omega 3 oil.  You can do this by eating 3 servings of cold water ocean fish per week, such as salmon, sardines, or white albacore tuna, etc.  or you can take 1-2 tablespoons of cold pressed flax seed oil daily, either added to cold cereal or salad or fruit or mixed into low fat cottage cheese (this is rec. by Dr. Johanna Budwig, the doc who has done extensive research on it.  the cottage cheese provides sulfur containing amino acids which complement the omega 3)  9)  Get plenty of all your vitamins and minerals.  If you eat well, this shouldn't be a problem.  It's hard to get too much vitamin C.  Dr. Linus Pauling, the Nobel winner, recommended 10-15 grams of vit C per day.  1 gm = 1000 mg.  Other important antioxidant vitamins are vit A and its precursor caratenoids, and vit E.  Coral calcium is a good natural source of calcium, as well as all the other minerals.  The bioflavenoids, such as those found in grape seed extract and in elderberry concentrate or wine seem to be important antioxidant vitamins.  10)  Don't get real stressed out!  The old expression about "something breaking your heart" has some truth in it.  11)  Keep your teeth and gums clean.  When you develop rotten teeth and gums, it may somehow spread inflammation to cholesterol placques.  We don't really know, but we do know that inflammation is part of the heart attack condition, of thrombosis of placques.  12) The monounsaturated oils, either olive oil, or canola oil, are considered to be your best oils for cooking, from an arterial standpoint.  I think real butter is better for you than margarine, since it doesn't have any trans fats, but go easy on it.
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By exercise & diet. If you can not control the blood sugar in normal range, it means that you are consuming sugar and carbohydrates in excess knowingly or unknowingly. \nNormal range-Fasting blood sugar-126 mg/dL.(mmol.7/L)\nBlood sugar 2 hours after taking food-Postprandial-180 mg/dL.(mmol.10/L). In order to reduce blood sugar level, you have to consume less quantity of food more times in a day. Some foods have to be avoided(sweets & oily foods), some restricted(Ripe fruits-mango/banana etc) , and some consumed in plenty (Leafy vegetables).\nABCs for good Diabetes Care.\n(1).Get your Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) test done at least twice a year. (Target: Below 7).\n(2).Albuminuria. Get your urine micro-albumin test done atleast twice a year. (Target: Below 30).\n(3).Aspirin Check with your doctor if you need to take aspirin daily.\n(4).Blood pressure. Get your blood pressure checked every visit. (Target: Below 130/80 mm Hg)\n(5).Cholesterol Get your LDL (bad cholesterol) levels checked at least once a year. (Target: Below 100 mg/dL). Triglycerides. (Target: Less than 150 mg/dL) Serum Cholesterol (Target: Less than 200 mg/dL) HDL (god cholesterol) (Target: More than 50 mg/dL)\n(6).Diabetes Education. Know about diabetes & get updated regularly.\n(7).Eye exam. Get your eyes examined regularly, get checked at least nce a year. \n(8).Teeth. Get your teeth examined by a Dentist and get tartar (plaque) removed once in a year. \n(9).Foot care. Check your feet daily . Request your doctor to check them every visit. Get an extensive foot examination done once in a year.\n(10).Glucose (Sugar) test. Control  your blood glucose & do self-monitoring as & when required. (Target: Fasting blood sugar 60-100 mg/dL; Postprandial blood sugar 2 hours after food-Less than 180 mg/dL)\n(11).Health life style. Exercise regularly & stay healthy.\n(12).Identify special medical needs. Voice your health concerns to your doctor . Follow your doctor’s advice.\nPlease see the webpages for more details on Glucose test.
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Doctors today say that the best diet - as in way to eat - is to eat six small meals a day. This helps keep your body going throughout the day & spaces out the intake of needed vitamins & nutrients. No matter what, you need to eat at least three solid meals a day or you set yourself up for metabolic problems. I know you didn't ask but I want to share my own story with you in order to highlight what can happen if you don't eat enough...it should help you to understand how important it is:\n\nI've been overweight most of my life but, until a few years ago, did not know that this was due to a metabolic condition rather than just eating too much. My problem was that I would literally forget to eat &, on a normal day, could only be counted on to eat one meal. Though I was extremely overweight, I was never hungry & always thought that if I ate less meals, I would shock my system into losing weight.\n\nWell, I shocked my system alright. Not only did I develop diabetes as an outgrowth of the other metabolic conditions but I messed up my system so bad that there is a chance I will never be able to have children. Why? Because I starved my body of the proper protiens & nutrients for so long that it might not ever recover. The effects of years of mistreating my body in this manner - without even realising I was doing it - even extend to the fact that I recently had to have all of my teeth pulled; having not gotten the proper balance of protiens, etc over all of those years, my teeth literally wasted away in my mouth! I can assure you that none of this has been fun & I am not making a single thing up just to get my point across.\n\nIt has taken my literally years now to even attempt to get myself back in shape. The diagnosis of diabetes scared me silly & I knew I needed to make some significant changes to take whatever procautions I could to live a long & happy life with my husband. I've since learned that you have to eat to live & be healthy. I eat anything I want, including sugar, but I do so in moderation & always with a mind to what I am eating & when I get full. It took me years to teach myself how to know when I was hungry &, honestly, I still have some times that I eat only because I know I need to do so. I have lost over 150 lbs. in the past few years doing just this & the effects have been amazing. I no longer show any signs of diabetes &, although I miscarried, actually got pregnant & kept it for a number of months. At this point we are hoping that my body heals itself in enough time to beat the ticking of my biological clock :)\n\nThe point here is that you can do some terrible things to your body without even realising it & the effects of these things can be much more far-reaching than you might ever think. If you want to live a nice long life, have children & be healthy, you need to start taking control of it now. Not doing this same thing when I was younger has caused me more heartache than I ever considered possible. Had I not ignored the signs of what was happening to me - through missed periods & feeling tired all of the time - I might not be in the recovery stage that I am today. Please don't let the same thing happen to you...