Avoid type II Diabetes, part 5:
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Today's post: Wednesday, 8-2-2006
Avoid type II Diabetes, part 5:
The previous four posts have things to do to protect you from getting type II diabetes.
Should you do them?
Probably. People who don’t do them often do develop type II diabetes. People who do none of them usually do. And, unfortunately, most Americans don’t yet do these things.
But, it may well be that it’s imperative, in your particular case, that you do all of them.
And, it’s easily possible that you might not know it. <<<
Imagine standing on the edge of a cliff in the dark. And, you don’t know the cliff is there. You could easily step off. Ouch !!
If you haven’t had your fasting blood glucose checked & had your HBA1C level checked, you are in the dark as to what your risk of type II diabetes is.
If you read my post yesterday, you saw that even though I was in reasonably good health & already doing some of the things on this list, without realizing it, I’d drifted into a high risk zone with the blood glucose level they found of 115.
Yours could easily be 124 or even 138, right on the edge of type II diabetes or slightly to well over it & you might well still feel healthy & have no symptoms yet.
So, one of the best ways to avoid type II diabetes is to have your fasting blood glucose & HBA1C tested regularly.
On HBA1C, desirable is 5.6 or less; 5.9 is beginning to be high risk; & 6.0 & up is early stage type II diabetes or worse.
And, if your fasting blood glucose is 90 or more or your HBA1C is about 5.8 or more, do your health a favor & take action to bring them down to 89 or less & 5.6 or less.
The desirable fasting blood glucose level is between about 63 to 89.
If yours is 90 to 99, try eliminating high fructose corn syrup; cut the amount of sugar you eat each week; & reduce the amount of refined grain foods & potatoes you eat or eliminate them & substitute whole grain foods for the refined grains & try sweet potatoes or a low starch vegetable like green beans to substitute for potatoes. And, if you don’t exercise regularly at all, add at least enough walking or strength training to total 500 calories each week. (Walking 5 miles total is about 500 calories.)
Then get re-tested to see how you did.
If you test at 100 to 124, try doing all the previous list; eat more low glycemic index foods; and be sure to do or begin doing both aerobic or cardio exercise at least 3 days a week & strength training at least twice a week
Then get re-tested to see how you did.
On HBA1C, desirable is 5.6 or less; 5.9 is beginning to be high risk; & 6.0 & up is early stage type II diabetes or worse.
What if you get 125 or more on the fasting blood glucose or 6.1 or higher on the HBA1C?
If it’s just a bit over 126 & 6.2 say, you’re just over the edge into early stage type II diabetes.
Try doing everything on this list & get retested. And, try doing more of each if you aren’t a lot closer to the desirable range then.
Why do that?
The side benefit is each of the actions in these last few posts will help you lose excess body fat.
But the most important reason is that failing to do these things usually results in your readings getting worse.
Then you have type II diabetes.
Why go there?
People who have type II diabetes suddenly can have (& sometimes do have) their vision impaired badly enough it isn’t safe for them to drive when they are driving or be unable to read a computer screen when they are at work doing an important project.
People who have type II diabetes can go blind from it in fact.
If you are a man & get type II diabetes, your risk of heart attack & stroke doubles; &, if you are a woman, your risk of heart attack & stroke quadruples to four times a much.
People who have type II can have their kidneys damaged enough to need kidney dialysis or even to have their kidneys replaced.
People with type II can have their circulation impaired enough to be impotent or even to cause their feet to be amputated.
People with type II have trouble recovering from being sick & are more likely to die from the flu since type II impairs their immune responses.
Mercifully, the doctors know that & for full blown type II they prescribe multiple finger sticks to help you manage your blood sugar multiple times a day; &, you virtually always have two or three drugs prescribed to control your blood sugar.
(If you use two drugs or more, it’s more likely that your blood sugar will come down to safe levels. And, often even if one drug does the job initially, if you don’t take a second kind of drug with it, the first one will stop working. But if you start with two or more, the combination tends to keep working.)
Of course, taking two or more drugs every day costs money. You have to take time to keep getting the prescriptions refilled. And, you have to worry about or put up with their side effects.
You also have to learn what drugs they interact with.
When you have type II diabetes, you can take the drugs & measure your blood sugar several times a day or you can get horribly sick & even die or get severely incapacitated.
That’s a nasty choice !!
Why go there?
Get your fasting blood sugar & your HBA1C measured regularly. And, if you see or start having results higher than the desirable range on either one, take action !!
The road to type II diabetes is a great road to stay off of !!
In it we post health commentary & reviews of books, eBooks, & other things that improve or protect your health or which enable you to live longer, to be more prosperous, & to be more effective.
Today's post: Wednesday, 8-2-2006
Avoid type II Diabetes, part 5:
The previous four posts have things to do to protect you from getting type II diabetes.
Should you do them?
Probably. People who don’t do them often do develop type II diabetes. People who do none of them usually do. And, unfortunately, most Americans don’t yet do these things.
But, it may well be that it’s imperative, in your particular case, that you do all of them.
And, it’s easily possible that you might not know it. <<<
Imagine standing on the edge of a cliff in the dark. And, you don’t know the cliff is there. You could easily step off. Ouch !!
If you haven’t had your fasting blood glucose checked & had your HBA1C level checked, you are in the dark as to what your risk of type II diabetes is.
If you read my post yesterday, you saw that even though I was in reasonably good health & already doing some of the things on this list, without realizing it, I’d drifted into a high risk zone with the blood glucose level they found of 115.
Yours could easily be 124 or even 138, right on the edge of type II diabetes or slightly to well over it & you might well still feel healthy & have no symptoms yet.
So, one of the best ways to avoid type II diabetes is to have your fasting blood glucose & HBA1C tested regularly.
On HBA1C, desirable is 5.6 or less; 5.9 is beginning to be high risk; & 6.0 & up is early stage type II diabetes or worse.
And, if your fasting blood glucose is 90 or more or your HBA1C is about 5.8 or more, do your health a favor & take action to bring them down to 89 or less & 5.6 or less.
The desirable fasting blood glucose level is between about 63 to 89.
If yours is 90 to 99, try eliminating high fructose corn syrup; cut the amount of sugar you eat each week; & reduce the amount of refined grain foods & potatoes you eat or eliminate them & substitute whole grain foods for the refined grains & try sweet potatoes or a low starch vegetable like green beans to substitute for potatoes. And, if you don’t exercise regularly at all, add at least enough walking or strength training to total 500 calories each week. (Walking 5 miles total is about 500 calories.)
Then get re-tested to see how you did.
If you test at 100 to 124, try doing all the previous list; eat more low glycemic index foods; and be sure to do or begin doing both aerobic or cardio exercise at least 3 days a week & strength training at least twice a week
Then get re-tested to see how you did.
On HBA1C, desirable is 5.6 or less; 5.9 is beginning to be high risk; & 6.0 & up is early stage type II diabetes or worse.
What if you get 125 or more on the fasting blood glucose or 6.1 or higher on the HBA1C?
If it’s just a bit over 126 & 6.2 say, you’re just over the edge into early stage type II diabetes.
Try doing everything on this list & get retested. And, try doing more of each if you aren’t a lot closer to the desirable range then.
Why do that?
The side benefit is each of the actions in these last few posts will help you lose excess body fat.
But the most important reason is that failing to do these things usually results in your readings getting worse.
Then you have type II diabetes.
Why go there?
People who have type II diabetes suddenly can have (& sometimes do have) their vision impaired badly enough it isn’t safe for them to drive when they are driving or be unable to read a computer screen when they are at work doing an important project.
People who have type II diabetes can go blind from it in fact.
If you are a man & get type II diabetes, your risk of heart attack & stroke doubles; &, if you are a woman, your risk of heart attack & stroke quadruples to four times a much.
People who have type II can have their kidneys damaged enough to need kidney dialysis or even to have their kidneys replaced.
People with type II can have their circulation impaired enough to be impotent or even to cause their feet to be amputated.
People with type II have trouble recovering from being sick & are more likely to die from the flu since type II impairs their immune responses.
Mercifully, the doctors know that & for full blown type II they prescribe multiple finger sticks to help you manage your blood sugar multiple times a day; &, you virtually always have two or three drugs prescribed to control your blood sugar.
(If you use two drugs or more, it’s more likely that your blood sugar will come down to safe levels. And, often even if one drug does the job initially, if you don’t take a second kind of drug with it, the first one will stop working. But if you start with two or more, the combination tends to keep working.)
Of course, taking two or more drugs every day costs money. You have to take time to keep getting the prescriptions refilled. And, you have to worry about or put up with their side effects.
You also have to learn what drugs they interact with.
When you have type II diabetes, you can take the drugs & measure your blood sugar several times a day or you can get horribly sick & even die or get severely incapacitated.
That’s a nasty choice !!
Why go there?
Get your fasting blood sugar & your HBA1C measured regularly. And, if you see or start having results higher than the desirable range on either one, take action !!
The road to type II diabetes is a great road to stay off of !!
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