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What Must Diabetics Prepare for the Holidays?

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What Must Diabetics Prepare for the Holidays? By coach Myrel de Castro You are diagnosed with diabetes. You love food. But food during this season is not your friend.  You want it but your body rejects it. Would you opt for fasting? Or feasting? Confused?  Here are some suggestions to prepare for this long holiday.  1. Salad Families are used to preparing salads during the holiday seasons. Creamy salads at that. But these salads are very high in sugar and can raise your blood glucose level. Worry not, there are many different kinds of salads safe for diabetics like you. a. Sweet potato salad - Replace your favorite white potato salad with sweet potato. Find a vegan mayo from grocery stores without sweeteners and use stevia instead.  Ingredients:  Sweet potato steamed or boiled (2-3 medium sized) Onions blanched (1 medium size) Garlic powder(½ tablespoon) Pickled cucumber...

How to Start a Lifestyle Change If You are a Diabetic Person

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Diabetes is a condition where your blood sugar rises above the normal blood sugar levels. It is because our pancreas and liver can no longer supply the insulin our body needs due to our high sugar diet or intake over the course of years. Clearly, Type 2 Diabetes is a lifestyle disease. If you ask the people who know me, I am a health buff. My diet is super healthy and balanced which I prepare myself inspired by my complicated health condition :). I have an autoimmune problem which affects my kidneys every time my immune system is compromised.  One day, I participated in a medical mission where they are giving random blood sugar test. That afternoon, I thought I had a super healthy lunch with all the veggies and watermelon as a dessert. After they took my blood sample and placed it in the testing strip, we saw that my random blood sugar values are soaring high. It was alarming. So that night, I just ate soup for dinner and made it a goal to reverse my blood sugar issue from ...
"I will start my diet and exercise activities ...tomorrow" then tomorrow then the following day, tomorrow again because the food is so tempting! Changing lifestyle starts with a good intention. But a good intention without the corresponding action is nothing. Action is the result of a productive and active brain signals. It's like when our hand touches a hot surface, we remove it immediately. However we define this action as a reaction or a passive movement versus an active movement. Changing lifestyle should be a product of active conscious movement that comes from our brain. It is combined with right intentions and the knowledge of its good effects to our body; and the logic that if we change now, the change will manifest in our body. So here are some tips to start changing your lifestyle. 1. Understand your Brain Functions Our brain is a complex system with a very small part of it dedicated to logical thinking. We need to feed our mind with goo...