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and eating a healthy diet will also help. Regular exercise, medical check-ups and avoiding to much
alcohol and cigarettes will help to manage the illness.
What we do need to be careful for is if you take insulin or other diabetic medicines and you don’t
increase the amount to correspond with your diet and exercise then you can develop
hypoglycaemia. This is called a low blood sugar level. Its leads to hypoglycaemic shock.
How can this happen:
Not eating enough carbs
Skipping meals
Increasing exercise
Alcohol
Being ill
A few things to think about and consider if you have or no anyone with the illness.
Type 2 diabetes
Type two diabetes is self-inflicted. Unhealthy eating habits and a lack of exercise will cause it. it’s
that simple.
What’s happened is something called insulin resistance.
Due to excessive carbohydrate overloads your blood cells have now become resistant to insulin.
Remember insulin helps shuttle digested carbohydrates, glucose, to the blood cells. The blood cells
then take on the insulin and glucose. By exercising and being active we use the glucose as energy. If
you don’t then the glucose stays in the cells or gets converted to fat.
Here lies the vicious circle.
If your body has a raised level of insulin it will automatically think that it needs more carbohydrates
(glucose) to give the insulin a purpose. Ready - get set – food cravings. Then you eat more food.
However, the same results happen, you have no room in your cells for insulin. Uh-oh raised insulin
levels. Raised blood sugar levels.
You can see the what I’m trying to get at here.
Some noticeable effects of type 2 diabetes are:
Eye damage
Kidney damage
Nerve damage
Sexual and hormonal complications
It doubles the risk of heart attack and strokes
These are just a few issues that come with the disease.
Signs of diabetes could be:
Increased and constant thirst
Frequent need to urinate
Constant fatigue
Blurred vision
Tingling pain in the hand legs and feet
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