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Acupuncture Soothes Diabetes Symptoms

Acupuncture has been used to treat diabetes — both the root causes and the symptoms — for more than 2,000 years. Known as “the wasting and thirsting disease” in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the acupuncture protocol for treating diabetes is the same as for other conditions: a doctor of Oriental medicine (DOM) inserts superfine needles into specific points along the meridians, or energetic...

Meditation Manages Diabetes

Sometimes the stress of dealing with diabetes can feel more difficult than the disease itself. Meditation is a simple, easy-to-learn tool that can help you feel more in control even when facing the life-changing challenge of diabetes. Meditation is highly effective at calming stress, and has been found to lower blood sugar levels and blood pressure, improve eating disorders and fend off the tendency toward depression and poor...

Daily Exercise Improves Diabetes

One positive step you can take toward healing your diabetes is also one of the easiest: exercise daily. Just 1 hour of daily exercise — broken into 2-3 short sessions, if necessary — can dramatically improve how well you metabolize glucose, improve your body’s sensitivity to insulin, help you shed unwanted pounds and significantly reduce your risk for the complications of diabetes. 1. Exercise decreases...

Seek Support For Diabetes Lifestyle Changes

Managing prediabetes or full-blown diabetes involves taking charge of how you are living and making lasting changes. That’s the first hard lesson of being diagnosed. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of what you are taking on. Don’t be. Inform yourself of your options, put an action plan into place to begin making shifts in how you eat and exercise, then ask for help in carrying out your plan....

Fermented Foods Foil Diabetes

Fermented foods are less common in the typical Western diet but play a starring role in the diets of other cultures, especially Asia. Probiotics (friendly bacteria) in fermented foods help convert sugar into lactic acid for greater digestibility. They help stabilize blood sugar, improve gut flora, boost the immune system and are rich in essential vitamins — all of which are helpful in any Diabetes Healing Diet. 1. ...

Hydrate for Diabetes Health

People with diabetes need to drink plenty of pure water, as diabetes tends to dehydrate the body. Dehydration is the result of losing too much fluid from your body, causing a deficiency of necessary electrolytes in the cells. Severe dehydration is a serious condition that can lead to shock and death. According to the Mayo Clinic, the symptoms of dehydration include dry or sticky mouth, a decrease in urine, urine becoming...

Use Vinegar To Lower GI of Food

A new study from The Annals of Nutrition and Metabilism revealed that adding only two teaspoons of vinegar to a meal containing complex carbohydrates can reduce their glycemic impact by an amazing 20%. More interesting, it affects only complex carbohydrates, which are found in foods such as whole grains, brown rice, and beans. The simple sugars in fruit, juice, refined sugar, high fructose corn syrup or processed sweetened...

Many Ways To Help And Heal Diabetes

To build a diabetes healing life, you’ve got to Help and Heal it on every level: molecular, physical and emotional. While nutrition is the single most powerful way to improve your diabetes, there are other nondrug healers and helpers that can provide significant improvement. Physical activity is a perfect example. Studies show that weight is the most important risk factor for getting diabetes, as well as for developing...

Weight Loss Critical for Defeating Diabetes

The single most important step to preventing, controlling or even reversing diabetes is to lose weight. According to the American Diabetes Association, even a modest reduction in weight can help you lower your blood sugar, reduce blood pressure, improve cholesterol levels and help you reduce your dependence on insulin. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that a reduction of only 10 pounds helped...

Abdominal Surgery Promoted For Diabetes Treatment

Medical experts have discovered that bariatric surgery, most commonly restricted to the morbidly obese and often called “Obesity Surgery,” appears to be an effective treatment for type 2 diabetes for reasons that go beyond merely the effects of weight loss. Bariatric surgery is an operation that reduces or bypasses the stomach or small intestine so that severely overweight people can achieve significant and...

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