Preventing Diabetes is Within Your Reach (Diabetes Month)

 

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Today is the beginning of Diabetes Month. According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, this year’s Diabetes theme is “Small Steps, Big Difference: Preventing diabetes is within reach.” Prediabetes can begin at the age of eighteen years old. Managing prediabetes is tricky especially when there are factors that make the sugar levels rise. Factors such as age, menstruation, being overweight, and poor eating habits.

Also, if there is a family history of diabetes, it makes it so difficult to manage prediabetes. Changing your diet and limiting certain foods that raise your sugar might help. Additionally, going outside for a walk or doing exercise indoors helps manage sugar levels. Besides that, drinking more water and less sugary drinks might help. Substituting rice for cauliflower rice will help enormously especially if you like to eat rice.

If you are a pasta lover, you can substitute pasta for zucchini or squash noodles. Your doctor can give you a diet plan of vegetables, protein, fiber, whole grains, and fruits. Last, your doctor can prescribe medication and a diabetes monitor. Checking your sugar with the diabetes monitor will make you aware of what type of foods raise your sugar or what types of foods that lower your sugar. Exercise is also important for managing your sugar levels. Here is a link from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Diabetes Health Information-NIDDK:

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/diabetes