Diabetes and the Gruesome Twosome Can Be Beaten By The Dynamic Duo!

Diabetes and high blood sugar levels are the "Gruesome Twosome!" Diabetes and high blood sugar levels go together like peanut butter and jelly. They do not taste as good, however! Click Here!

A sure fire sign you have diabetes is high blood sugar levels! This is not always detected, however and you may not experience any symptoms associated with diabetes. This is one reason so many diabetics go undiagnosed until they are besieged by complications caused by diabetes.

Many times diabetes goes undetected for years and it works silently inside the body attacking blood vessels and damaging major organs as it spills glucose into the blood and into the urine. The person has no idea this is going on. The "Gruesome Twosome" is doing its devilish work to create high blood sugar and attack the major organs! Click Here!

All those years you ate those family dinners of fried chicken, mashed potatoes full of melted butter, corn on the cob coated in butter, cream gravy, biscuits, and homemade apple pie, You had no idea what it was doing to your body. All those carbohydrates, fried foods, sugar and fats sure tasted good but worked havoc on your body. The "Gruesome Twosome" was moving right in!

All those years you drove by the fast food restaurant and grabbed something to eat on the way to work. Later you drove to the fast food restaurant for lunch and picked up some hamburgers and fries and cokes for everyone in the office. You had no idea the "Gruesome Twosome" was hard at work messing with you blood sugar levels, your metabolism, and setting you up for type 2 diabetes! Click Here!

If you had known, you could have changed the program. You could have invited the "Dynamic Duo" (a healthy diet and regular exercise) to be a part of your life. You could have stopped the "Gruesome Twosome" in its tracks. But you had no idea what all that great food was doing to your body! If you had only known!

Now everybody talks about fats, sugars, carbohydrates, fruits and vegetables. They never discussed all that food stuff when you were growing up. You just ate what you liked and life was sweet until the "Gruesome Twosome" became a permanent part of your life! Now you have to recruit the "Dynamic Duo" to move in and help you defeat the "Gruesome Twosome." Click Here!

You have to start eating a healthy diet and doing regular exercise. Hand in hand with these two you can defeat high blood sugar levels and diabetes. You have to defeat diabetes! Last year your mother lost her leg because of diabetes! You do not want to go there! The only way to defeat diabetes and high blood sugar levels is to get the "Dynamic Duo" working for you! Get rid of the "Gruesome Twosome" and do right by your body. A healthy well balanced diet split into smaller meals and snacks during the day along with regular exercise can start you on the road to recovery!

For the last few years we have been hearing eat more fruits and vegetables, eat the right kind of carbohydrates, stop eating so many of the wrong kind of carbohydrates, stop eating sugar, stop eating fried foods and, of course, stop eating fast foods. All the things we love to eat have to go! That is not true! You see we just have to eat in moderation!

I do not know about you but I love to eat and eat and eat! I have never done anything in moderation if my life! Have you? Well, it is time we learned. We have to change the way we eat and the way we think if we do not want diabetes in our life! Click Here!

Retrain yourself like I am! I have learned to like fruits and vegetables and staying home to eat. I am trying to eat to live not live to eat and it has been very difficult! I will not lie! There were days I would have killed for a hamburger, fries, onion rings and the biggest coke they sell! But it gets easier. Everyday gets easier!

Just remember you are working for a goal! You are working to save your legs, and your eyes, and your heart and your kidneys and all the other body parts that diabetes destroys!

Get the "Gruesome Twosome" out of your life! Get the "Dynamic Duo" working for you! Get out and use your legs and feet and keep them for a lifetime!

The good Lord save and keep you until next time…

Diabetes Is Rising. Is It Staring You In The Face?

Click Here! If you have heard the news in the last few days, then you know diabetes is on the rise in America. Sales are down. Loans are down. New car sales are down, but diabetes is on the rise! Everyday there is something in the news about how the number of Americans with diabetes is increasing.

Wake up America! We have an epidemic in America! The main reason diabetes is of epidemic proportion in our country is the way we eat. We eat fast food everyday all day long. Click Here!

Another reason this disease is so prevalent in America is we do not exercise! We ride everywhere! The only energy we expend to get from one place to another it to walk to the car. How many people do you see walking to the neighborhood store, which is just up the street? We have a shortage of gas in our country and what we do have is very expensive, but we still drive our cars three doors down to get some milk! We drive everywhere! No wonder the number of Americans is increasing daily in America!

When my mom was diagnosed with diabetes, I had a wake up call! I began to wonder what is diabetes? What causes it? Where did it come from? Who is at risk of developing it? What can I do to stop it? Click Here!

I began studying the disease that day. I started with my first question. What is diabetes?

I looked the definition up in Webster's dictionary. The definition is elegantly stated as…
"any of several disorders characterized by increased urine production. It is also called diabetes mellitus, a disorder of carbohydrate metabolism, usually occurring in genetically predisposed individuals, characterized by inadequate production or utilization of insulin and resulting in excessive amounts of glucose in the blood and urine, excessive thirst, weight loss, and in some cases progressive destruction of small blood vessels leading to such complications as infections and gangrene of the limbs or blindness."

Let's look closely at this definition of diabetes. Click Here!

"Increased urine production" is usually the first symptom that alerts a person that something is wrong. We have all heard that excessive thirst and urination indicate high blood sugar levels and the beginning of diabetes. If this happens it is time to see your doctor and be tested for this disease.

The second sentence of the definition states "It is also called diabetes mellitus, a disorder of carbohydrate metabolism, usually occurring in genetically predisposed individuals." Click Here!

"Genetically predisposed" means there is a history of the disease in the family. Families have a great influence on diet and exercise. In my family, for instance, my grandfather was a diabetic. We ate an ample supply of carbohydrates at every meal. Therefore, the descendants of our family were predisposed by heredity to incorrectly metabolize carbohydrates. We were genetically predisposed and at a high risk of developing diabetes. If we had known this, we could change our destiny through diet and exercise.

The final part of the definition states "the disorder of carbohydrate metabolism is characterized by inadequate production or utilization of insulin, resulting in excessive amounts of glucose in the blood and urine, excessive thirst, weight loss, and in some cases progressive destruction of small blood vessels leading to such complications as infections and gangrene of the limbs or blindness."

This final part of the definition states it plainly. Carbohydrate metabolism means the body does not produce enough or does not use insulin correctly. When this happens, excessive amounts of glucose is found in the blood and urine. Therefore, you will have high blood sugar levels! Usually, you will have excessive thirst, weight loss, and progressive destruction of blood vessels. This leads to all kinds of complications including loss of limbs, kidney failure, heart failure and blindness. Click Here!

If your family has a history of the disease, do not ignore the signs. Check your blood sugar levels. Have your doctor run tests to determine if you are on the diabetic highway! Most of all change your lifestyle as it relates to diet and exercise. Limit your carbohydrates and eat more vegetables and fruits!

You can change the course of the disease in your family! Do not standby and do nothing! Take control of your life and stop the diabetic cycle!