How to Manage Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes is caused due to resistance developed by our body cells towards insulin produced by the body. This leads to a rise in blood glucose level as the cells natural tendency to absorb insulin as much reduces, preventing the body from using glucose effectively resulting in excess sugar levels in the body. Type 1 diabetes is genetic but Type 2 diabetes is a lifestyle disease most commonly caused by obesity. The good news is that because Type 2 diabetes is not genetic and can be controlled, managed and sometimes even be reversed completely.

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Recent study on diabetes suggests that you could reverse your diabetes to normal. That means you could balance you blood sugar levels in the body. The study by Newcastle Magnetic Resonance Centre at Newcastle University in England says that eating less calories about 600 per day for three months could reverse the diabetes. In the study 11 people with type 2 diabetes for four years were put on a 600 calorie diet with leafy green vegetables and liquid diet which reversed the diabetes of 7 people.

At Fitho we believe that you dont have to go on such a strict low calorie diet that can damage your daily nutrition intake. Read here to understand what is a balanced diet and how it is essential for our healthy well being. Diabetes Type 2 can be controlled and managed through healthy diet and exercise without reducing the calorie intake to such low levels. A person diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes needs a special diet chart that ensures that mostly food with low glycemic index should be included. Here is a list of foods that you must include and also avoid.

5 High GI Foods 5 Low GI Foods

Potatoes Green Vegetables

Rice Lentils

Sweets Fruits (Citrus)

Packaged Juice Oats

Pasta Brown Rice

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2 Responses to “How to Manage Type 2 Diabetes”

SHASHANK MUKIM on July 1st, 2011 11:34 am

TELL MORE ABOUT WHAT TO EAT AND WHAT NOT TO EAT IN TYPE2 DIABITIES
Arturo Lagahit on October 14th, 2012 7:53 am

I am 60,5’6, have Type 2 diabetes and have maintained my weight at 145 lbs of muscle from doing strength training for years. I’ve lost 10 lbs in the last 2 weeks and want to get them back,but there’s all this talk about the need for Type 2 diabetics like me to lose weight when it’s my high glucose level that made me lose weight in the first place. so what’s the real score?

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