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Dear Reader,
I found following video very much informative and a must for every diabetic patient.
controlling_diabetes__sugar_tips_diet__by_Dr_Girish_Patel___1_part_2.mpg
controlling_diabetes__sugar_tips_diet__by_Dr_Girish_Patel___2_part_2.mpg
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source:American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Eating fish may reduce the occurrence of kidney disease in diabetics.
Studies in the past have shown that fish and fish oil consumption is beneficial in managing diabetes. To examine whether or not fish helps preventing kidney disease in individuals with or without diabetes, researchers from Britain studied 22,384 men and women out of which 517 were diabetic. The researchers used food frequency questionnaires to know the consumption of fish by the participants.
It was found that among the 517 diabetics, the presence of gross albumin (protein) in the urine (macroalbuminuria), an indication of advanced kidney disease, was 8.3 percent compared to 0.6% in non-diabetics. Microalbuminuria (presence of small amounts of albumin in urine – an indicator of early kidney damage) was 23% in diabetics, compared to 11% in non-diabetics. According to food questionnaire responses, 18 percent of diabetics who ate fish less than once a week had macroalbuminuria, versus 4 percent of those who included fish in their diet more than twice a week. After adjusting the data for clinical, social, demographic, lifestyle, and dietary factors, regular fish consumption remained a significant predictor of freedom from macroalbuminuria among diabetics.
The above findings could be attributed to the fact that fish has a unique nutrient composition that might prevent kidney damage by enhancing blood sugar control or improving lipid profiles.
Further studies are expected to resolve the types of fish, modes of preparation, and dietary frequency to best protect the kidneys of patients with diabetes.
“Diabetes diet.” Simply hearing these words may be enough to make you feel overwhelmed or frustrated.
Perhaps you have said, or heard someone else express, one of these thoughts:
These three statements are all myths about diabetes diets. Take a closer look at these and other myths to find out the facts about diabetes and diet.
How does diabetes happen? The causes are not totally understood. What is known is that simply eating too much sugar is unlikely to cause diabetes. Instead, diabetes begins when something disrupts your body’s ability to turn the food you eat into energy.
To understand what happens when you have diabetes, keep these things in mind: Your body breaks down much of the food you eat into glucose, a type of sugar needed to power your cells. A hormone called insulin is made in the pancreas. Insulin helps the cells in the body use glucose for fuel.
Inhaled Insulin has been withdrawn from the world market, due its side effects.
When you have diabetes, stress can significantly affect your ability to control the disease. If you are under stress, you may skip meals or forget to take your medicines, which will affect your blood glucose level. Learning to deal with this stress is especially important if you have diabetes.
Although you can’t completely remove stress from your life, there are several ways you can reduce it. And by learning to better cope with stress, you can help keep your diabetes under control. Here are some tips.
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Hoping for a beer at the ball game, or a glass of wine with dinner?
If you have type 2 diabetes, that’s probably OK as long as your blood sugar is under control, you don’t have any complications that are affected by alcohol (such as high blood pressure), and you know how the drink will affect your blood sugar, according to the American Diabetes Association.
An alcohol-containing drink a day might even help your heart (though if you don’t already drink, most experts say that’s not a reason to start).
In moderation, alcohol may cut heart disease risk
According to a study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, women with type 2 diabetes who drank relatively small amounts of alcohol had a lower heart-disease risk than those who abstained. A second study found that men with diabetes had the same reduction in heart risk with a moderate alcohol intake as non-diabetic men.
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An alcoholic drink during a meal may help reduce the subsequent rise in blood sugar levels.
Moderate drinking reduces heart disease and diabetes risk. This could be due to the fact that alcohol consumption reduces sugar formation in the body, scientifically known as gluconeogenesis, while increasing sensitivity to insulin.
Researchers from the University of Sydney investigated whether a drink with a meal helped in reducing the increase in blood glucose levels that occurs after eating. The study involved young adult volunteers without diabetes, and was conducted in three stages. Firstly, the effect of drinking an alcoholic beverage, beer, white wine or gin, was compared with eating the equivalent amount of calories in carbohydrate. Each of the alcoholic beverages produced a smaller rise in blood sugar than bread, while insulin response to the drinks was also lower than to bread. Secondly, it was found that blood sugar levels rose less when any of the alcoholic drinks were consumed with bread than eating bread with water. Wine had the strongest effect, while the effect of beer was the weakest. Thirdly, the participants were made to drink before a meal— specifically, the equivalent of about two drinks of beer, wine or gin an hour before eating a meal of instant mashed potatoes. The post-meal blood glucose increase was lower with drinks than when they drank water. However, there was no difference in the effect on insulin levels when an alcoholic beverage was consumed instead of water with or before a meal.
The findings suggest that moderate quantities of beer, wine, and gin reduce post-meal blood sugar by up to 37% in lean, healthy participants. This could be because alcohol reduced gluconeogenesis as well as release of glucose by the liver. The results also showed that alcoholic beverages consumed alone, with or before a carbohydrate-containing meal, are capable of reducing peak blood glucose concentrations or the overall postprandial glucose response in young, lean, healthy participants. Therefore, there is an unrecognised benefit of moderate alcohol consumption.
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition,
June 2007
If anything, the International Diabetes Federation’s (IDF) Diabetes Atlas released early December in South Africa, only confirms what we already know: India has the largest number of people living with diabetes.
It is in the pre-diabetic phase, Impaired Glucose Tolerance, that China overtakes India, both in the prevalence and projections.
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