Although Type 2 diabetes is preventable and
treatable, it can cause serious health consequences if left uncontrolled.
SparkPeople’s Type 2
Diabetes Condition Center will show you how nutrition, fitness and lifestyle changes can help you manage your condition and prevent complications. Approximately 17 million
Americans are diabetics.
The first thing you need to do is find yourself a good internal medicine physician in general practice. You will not survive if you try to treat yourself. This physician can tell you in quite exact terms what your condition is and work out a treatment and
diabetic diet plan, not one that will cure your disease, but one that will control it and keep you alive with the least possible damage to your system.
This disease requires a lot of self-management, and that means that you need to educate yourself and take charge. No one else can make the changes in lifestyle that will determine whether you will come down with all or any of the adverse effects. Only you can do that. Those changes include daily monitoring of your
blood-sugar levels with a meter, lancets, and diabetic testing strips. You will also need to keep a log of your readings. see more after the break...
