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<h2>Reducing the Effects of Diabetes</h2> <p> Diabetes can have both short-term and long-term consequences. Discipline can help you reduce both sets of consequences.<br /><br />The most common short-term effect is sudden dips and spikes in blood sugar. These can cause dizziness, confusion, upset stomach, and other problems. While some diabetics seldom have this problem, most will occasionally experience mild episodes. Routine self-care can help minimize episodes.<br /><br />Monitoring is vital. Pricking your finger three times a day is wearisome, but worth the effort. Some new glucose monitoring devices don't require painful pricks.<br /><br />Some contain tiny, powerful lasers that create a hole through which blood oozes. They produce only a mild tingling sensation. One recent device senses glucose level through the skin using an infrared beam, requiring no blood sample at all.<br /><br />The goal is to keep the glucose-insulin balance as close to normal levels as possible. Non-diabetics have a fasting glucose level under about 99 mg/dL. Even after a heavy meal, when glucose may rise to over 200 mg/dL, insulin is released which brings it back down within a couple of hours. That means that keeping the glucose level right isn't so much achieving a static number as maintaining the correct dynamic balance.<br /><br />Monitoring must include periodic doctor visits. An A1C test should be taken every three months. Many tests can measure the blood glucose level at a certain time; the A1C gives an average over a several months. HbA1C (glycated hemoglobin) gives the test its name.<br /><br />Hemoglobin's role is to carry oxygen from the red blood cells to the tissues. Hemoglobin is glycated when there is extra glucose in the blood. The A1C test can give an average glucose level, because glycated hemoglobin remains.<br /><br />The effects of diabetes accumulate over time. Once the diagnosis of diabetes meant kidney damage, blindness, nerve damage, and other ills within ten to fifteen years of the condition's onset. Fortunately, diabetics no longer must suffer these problems. It is now possible to manage diabetes, so that it has few or no ill effects.<br /><br />Most diabetics can achieve a proper glucose-insulin balance with the help of diet and exercise.<br /><br />Because diet and exercise help keep body fat low, the effects of diabetes are minimized. Body fat plays a role in hormone production and release and it also interferes with the body's reaction to glucose levels. Several studies show a definite correlation between the degree of diabetes and the degree of body fat, but the mechanisms for this are unclear.<br /><br />Lowering body fat also has the positive effect of lowering the blood pressure. Long-term high blood pressure contributes to many of the ills experienced by diabetics: eye and nerve damage, heart attacks and strokes.<br /><br />With a well-disciplined self-management routine, a diabetic can achieve a practically normal life. The pain of monitoring the disease is minor compared to the enormous benefits that result from doing so. <p style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top:5pt"> <font face="Arial" style="font-size: 10pt">Article Source: <a href="http://www.ArticlesMaker.com">ArticlesMaker.com</a></font></p> <h3>About the Author</h3> Julia Hanf author of the book How To Play the Diabetes Diet Game and Win Through a real life crisis Julia figured out how to live diabetes free. Visit http://www.yourdiabetescure.com and learn more about your solution for diabetes.

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