I
have done a few blogs about diabetes and have become conscious about my Type 2
diabetes in the long run as well. Well
it’s the holiday season and the sugar, and puddings and cakes and moans and
groans of not being able to partake of all the sugar and spice begins to take
its toll on all my friends and my own mental health as well. One of the ideas that came across to me from
an editorial about the “early warning signs” of diabetes is, could a person
have diabetes and not know it. This is
called pre-diabetes and you may not know you are experiencing its physiological
stress upon your body. Pre-diabetes is
an impaired glucose tolerance, a health condition without symptoms. It exists when the glucose levels are high
yet still too low to be known as a diabetic diagnosis. Most everyone knows what
can happen while having diabetes.
Blindness, heart attack, stroke, these are serious affectations of
diabetes. Having pre-diabetes is
certainly present, before someone contracts Type 2 diabetes, and that includes
the complications, including depression, anxiety and apathy, which are all
mental illnesses, of which a therapist can be seen for.
Pre-diabetes
can be diagnosed and it can be prevented.
Making behavior changes such as choices of food, and changing your
physical activity to help lose weight and reduce Type 2 diabetes helps in
overcoming pre-diabetes and thereby overcoming the malady. If you are over 45 years of age, overweight
or not physically active, you might find these are a few of the characteristics
which may bring about pre-diabetes.
When
the holiday season begins, eat fresh, fruits, vegetables, grain, low fat dairy
products and lean meats. Don’t tell
yourself “I’ll just have one”, if you’re offered candies, and pies and puddings
and cakes, give them to someone else or wrap them up to give away at a later
date, and of course it doesn’t hurt to say no.
Exercise can help you with your weight loss, if your ashamed of your
weight, run in place with small five or ten pound weights, this can help you,
your lungs and heart and build your self esteem as well.
Written
by Donald S.
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