What is Type 2 Diabetes and How do you Manage it?

If you are newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes you are probably wondering how you go about managing the disease. Well to start off, type 2 diabetes is when you body does not use insulin in the proper way. What happens is when you over eat or eat foods that have a high glycemic index your the insulin that your body does not use stays within your bloodstream causing your blood sugar levels to rise.


This is bad because the remaining insulin that the body has not used can cause complications that make it hard for a diabetic to function in life. Some of the complications are sight loss, loss of kidney function, swelling especially in the feet, causing wounds not to heal properly and possibly even neuropathy - which is the loss of feeling.
 
However, there are ways that type 2 diabetes can be managed and by learning the real diabetes facts of proper nutrition and planning a healthy eating plan a diabetic can conquer the disease and hopefully live a long life without experiencing the complications.

These real diabetes facts are in no way a means to skip medical consultation. Diabetes is a serious disease and needs to be taking seriously. Our aim is to provide knowledge of how to manage the disease the healthy way.