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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

Suffering from hypertension? Well, a daily dose of garlic could help save your life, for a study has revealed that it lowers high blood pressure as effectively as modern medicines.

A large number of people across the world have high blood pressure, but an even larger number are believed to have been suffering from the condition without knowing it. Without effective treatment, it can trigger heart attacks and strokes.

Doctors usually recommend sufferers to slash their daily intake of salt, losing weight and getting fit, apart from taking medicines if required to reduce blood pressure readings to the safe level of 140/90.

Now, a team at Adelaide University has found the role of garlic in reducing high blood pressure. In fact researchers have based their findings on an analysis of patients suffering from hypertension, who consumed garlic supplements every day for up to five months.

They found blood pressure levels of the participants dropping significantly. The higher a person’s blood pressure was at the beginning of the study, the more it was reduced by taking garlic.

“In some cases, the effects were similar to those achieved with common anti-blood pressure drugs,” the ‘Daily Mail’ quoted lead researcher Karin Ried as saying.

According to the researchers, the 600 mg to 900 mg dosage used in the study was equivalent to 3.6 mg to 5.4 mg of garlic’s active ingredient, allicin. A fresh clove of garlic contains 5 mg to 9 mg of allicin.

“(However) more research is needed to determine whether garlic supplements might have a long-term effect on heart disease risk,” the researchers said.

The findings have been published in the latest edition of the ‘BMC Cardiovascular Disorders’ journal.

Objectives

To maintain adequate nutrition
To achieve and maintain desirable body weight
To maintain normal blood sugar levels
To prevent, delay or minimize the onset of chronic degenerative complications

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