Diabetes Symptoms and Preventive Treatment

Diabetes is spreading fast in urban population due to sedentary lifestyle, wrong food, stress, and eating at odd times. Hence, it is more important for every person to understand the disease, its symptoms and preventive treatment. Knowledge beforehand is important to keep yourself and your family healthy as prevention is always better than cure.

Diabetes symptoms:

1. Person experiences weight loss without trying for it.
2. Diabetic feels thirsty drinking tons of water.
3. Due to unquenchable thirst person has to make frequent trips to the bathroom.
4. One has a lot of weakness and fatigue.
5. Tingling or numbness sensation is there in hands or legs.

Apart from these, a diabetic may show other symptoms like dry or itchy skin, blurred vision, frequent cuts or infections, which take a long time. A person should understand from these symptoms that he has to go for blood sugar tests.

Preventive treatment of diabetes:

1. Food:
My feeling is that 50% of any disease or malaise in beginning stage can be treated with a nutritious diet. Have a proper diet containing proportionate amounts of carbohydrates, fats and proteins.

2. Exercise:
Next to diet, physical exercise is important. Walking is the simplest and best exercise for people of all ages. Make it a daily routine to walk at least thirty minutes to one hour or do some yoga.

3. Motivation and positive feelings:
Do not be afraid of the disease. Remove negative feelings from your mind that you may get diabetes or you may be already having diabetes. Self-motivation is required both to prevent yourself from getting diabetes and to reduce the blood sugar levels if you are already a diabetic.

Follow the simple regimen of high fiber diet:

1. Eat more leafy or green vegetables, fruits, and legumes. Avoid vegetables that have high content of carbohydrate like potato and sweet potato. Bitter gourd, apple, cabbage, tomatoes, and lettuce control diabetes.

Our elders say that bitter the medicine more it has medicinal effects. Bitter gourd is the best example, which is very effective in the treatment of diabetes. The leaves and vines of bitter gourd are extensively useful. These are used to make teas and beer, or seasonal soups in the western world.

Apple is beneficial in the treatment of diabetes because of its rich pectin content. It helps in detoxification of the body by providing galacturonic acid, which requires for the elimination of various harmful substances from the body. Most important medicinal property of apple is that it decreases the body's insulin requirements. Apple is one of the wonderful gifts of God, which is a part of a healthy diet. Apples are also rich source of potassium. It is also a fighter against dangerous bacteria and viruses. It is one of the oldest fruits. It is wisely said that an apple a day keeps the doctor away.

2. Avoid low fiber food and go for whole grain foods. Eat whole-wheat flour instead of plain flour.

3. Eat dried beans such as pinto or kidney beans.

4. Take skimmed milk, low fat cheese and yogurt, unsaturated fat like vegetable oils and mono unsaturated fat like olive oil.

5. Have soymilk and soya bean.

6. Non-vegetarians can eat fish twice or thrice in a week and lean meats with low fats.

People having a family history of diabetes are prone to diabetes. Whether a person is diabetic or non-diabetic he or she should maintain a body balance with regular intake of nutritious food and some form of physical exercise. After some age, everybody should take dietary precautions. It is always better to consult a dietitian who will set the perfect diet regimen for a diabetic person or for any person after the age of 40 to avoid diabetes or any other health complications.

Please check your blood sugar levels regularly even you are not a diabetic as if diabetes is not controlled it may lead to medical conditions and diseases that may become chronic and life threatening. Be careful today for a better tomorrow.