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A healthy type 2 diabetes diet includes whole grains, healthy fat, veggies, and fruit. Dietitians share what to eat and avoid to keep your blood sugar stable.
Diabetes is a leading cause of death in the US and can lead to other issues, such as kidney failure, adult-onset blindness and amputation. On World Diabetes Day, here’s how to prevent it.
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Preventive nutrition has been known about for a long time. The philosopher Hippocrates (460-377 BC) believed that nutrition had a significant impact on maintaining health and that the best way to prevent diseases was to "let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.” [4] Meyer-Abich (2005) also believed that nutrition was foundational to a healthy life. [7]
In the UK, the NHS's diabetes prevention programme Healthier You offers personalised face-to-face and digital services. [26] Assessment of the programme is ongoing, but based on the first 36,000 patients, it seems that those who complete the programme manage to reduce their blood sugar levels and lose weight.
Since alpha-glucosidase inhibitors prevent the degradation of complex carbohydrates into glucose, the carbohydrates will remain in the intestine. In the colon, bacteria will digest the complex carbohydrates, thereby causing gastrointestinal side effects such as flatulence and diarrhea. Since these effects are dose-related, it is generally ...
Experts agree that eating wholesome, healthy meals, reducing calories, and increasing physical activity are the best ways to lose weight and keep it off long-term. Still, many people turn to ...
The main goal of diabetes management is to keep blood glucose (BG) levels as normal as possible. [1] If diabetes is not well controlled, further challenges to health may occur. [1] People with diabetes can measure blood sugar by various methods, such as with a BG meter or a continuous glucose monitor, which monitors over several days. [2]