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Raising awareness about raising blood sugar. Diet concerns are one of the first topics a diabetes educator will address.
“Look at how many foods we have you know, look down the aisles at the grocery store. It’s overwhelming the number of food items,” says Sharon Tilbe, a certified diabetes coordinator with Lee Memorial Health System.
To help patients with diabetes make good choices, Lee Heal Solutions offers medical nutrition therapy. It consists of one-on-one time with a dietician.
“We teach a little bit of carbohydrate counting whether its real specific carbohydrate counting or generalities of carbohydrate counting. Making sure that people get adequate whole grains, adequate fruit and dairy in their diet, but not too much to raise their blood sugar,” says Sharon.
Common everyday foods, even ones we don’t suspect, can cause a jump in blood sugar.
“Fruit as an example, would be considered a carbohydrate or a high carbohydrate food in that it has a lot of natural sugar. Milk we don’t think of milk as being a sugar food but of course milk has lactose, which will of course turn into blood glucose. Grains, most people understand that if we eat too much pasta too much rice the blood sugar goes up,” says Sharon.
All things in moderation is a good rule of thumb, a controlling diet can make an absolute difference in managing diabetes.
“Just before you came I took my blood sugar and it was 92, so below 100 is average for regular people,” says George Pickel.
George worked with a diabetes educator to turn his diet around and with it the course of his disease.
“Most people, diets are started and when the goal is achieved people stop the diet. They better realize that eating is a lifelong process,” says George.
It’s a healthy perspective, looking at diabetes as a lifelong journey.
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Hi, I am Qila.
On this occasion, I will talk about 5 Common Signs of Diabetes that you should to know.
Diabetes describes a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar due to problems processing or producing insulin.
And here are 5 Common signs of Diabetes that you to know:
1. You experience urinate more often.
2. You have Skin problems.
3. You Feeling Hunger.
4. You Feeling more tired.
5. Slow Healing.
Are you worried that you, your child or someone you know, may have diabetes?
Having some of the signs of diabetes doesn’t mean you definitely have the condition,
but you should always contact your doctor, just to make sure.
It’s important to tell your health care provider to have them checked by your doctor.
So you can seek immediate treatment.
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The numbers are surely attention getting: nearly 7 million Americans have undiagnosed diabetes. What gets less notice are the early warning signs.
“If they’re not going to their doctor, if they’re not seeing their physician they’re not having those lab works, they’re not reporting their signs they could just be going along with their normal daily activities,” says Melanie Aracri, a certified diabetes educator for Lee Health.
All too often patients show up at a hospital in a health crisis and find out they have highly elevated blood sugar. New studies find 1 in 10 heart attack patients may have undetected diabetes. We’ve broken down 5 warnings signs that should get your attention.
“The three classic signs of high blood sugar, we call them the three “P”s: polyphagia, polydipsia, and polyuria. Those are increased thirst, increased hunger, and increased urination,” says Aracri.
It’s easy to minimize increased thirst, especially when it’s hot. And frequent urination seems to naturally follow. But experts say it could be our body’s way of flushing extra glucose.
“The kidney has to work really hard to get that blood sugar out, that blood glucose out when it’s high,” says Aracri.
Wounds that don’t heal could be another warning sign.
“The body’s not able to fight that infection because of that extra glucose in the system,” says Aracri.
Frequent yeast or urinary tract infections may also be a red flag many people fail to consider. The earlier diabetes is picked up, the easier it is to avoid complications.
“it’s a learning how to adapt your eating pattern, your meal plan to your lifelong activities and daily habits,” says Aracri.
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It’s a growing health concern. Studies show more than three million people are living with type 2 diabetes. Teresa Spano, a naturopathic consultant with Lee Health, says what you eat, when you eat, and how you feel after you eat, can all help determine if you’re living with pre-diabetes. “Pre-diabetes is more referring to when your fasting glucose levels are going up, usually you can see the hemoglobin A1C that is starting to climb, it’s not necessarily in the diabetic range but it’s getting there.”
Discussing a patient’s sleep patterns, exercise, and diet can help determine if they’re at risk for developing diabetes. “There is a lot of gray area in between completely normal and actually being diabetic, which is where the pre-diabetic range is really where you can help people so much before they actually get to full blown diabetes,” said Spano.
Health experts may also use the waist to hip ratio to determine if patients are at risk. This ratio look at how the patient is carrying their weight: in their belly or in their hips and thighs? If patients have more belly fat, they are at a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes. “A lot of people just don’t really know that they are creeping up towards that, which is probably the scariest thing about it,” said Spano.
Experts encourage healthy diets of fruit, vegetables, and fiber, and limiting animal protein. “Exercise is so important when it comes to preventing diabetes. Sleep is always important as well, stress reduction. It’s really the core for everything you hear for staying healthy,” said Spano.
A blood test to check a patient’s A1C, triglyceride levels, and cholesterol can ultimately decide if a patient is at risk for type 2 diabetes.
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