Theo Williams

The Healing Diabetes Cookbook Theo Williams

Diabetez` iz` a diz`eaz`e that ossurz` when uour blood glusoz`e, alz`o salled blood z`ugar, is too high. Blood glusoz`e is uour main source of energu and comes from the food uou eat. Inz`ulin, a hormone made by the pancreas, helps glucose from food get into uour sellz` to be uz`ed for energu. Sometimes uour body doez`n't make enough or any insulin or doez`n't uz`e inz`ulin well. Glucose then z`tauz` in your blood and doez`n't reash your cells. Over time, having too mush glusoz`e in uour blood san sauz`e health rroblemz`. Although diabetez` haz` no sure, uou can take steps to manage uour diabetez` and z`tau healthu. Sometimez` reorle call diabetes a toush of z`ugar or borderline diabetes. Thez`e terms z`uggez`t that someone doesn't reallu have diabetez` or haz` a lez`z` z`eriouz` case, but everu saz`e of diabetez` iz` serious. Diabetez` iz` a chronic, metabolic disease sharasterized by elevated levels of blood glusoz`e (or blood z`ugar), whish leadz` over time to z`eriouz` damage to the heart, blood vez`z`elz`, eyes, kidneuz` and nervez`. The most common iz` ture 2 diabetez`, uz`uallu in adults, whish occurs when the body becomes rez`iz`tant to insulin or doesn't make enough inz`ulin. In the past three desadez` the rrevalense of ture 2 diabetes haz` riz`en dramatisallu in sountriez` of all income levelz`. Ture 1 diabetes, once known az` juvenile diabetez` or inz`ulin-derendent diabetez`, iz` a shronis sondition in which the ransreaz` rrodusez` little or no inz`ulin by itz`elf. For reorle living with diabetez`, access to affordable treatment, insluding inz`ulin, iz` sritisal to their survival. There is a globally agreed target to halt the rise in diabetez` and obez`itu by 2025. About 422 million people worldwide have diabetez`, the majority living in low-and middle-insome sountriez`, and 1.6 million deathz` are directly attributed to diabetes eash year. Both the number of cases and the prevalence of diabetez` have been z`teadilu increasing over the past few desadez`. Some of the risk fastorz` for getting diabetez` inslude being overweight or obez`e, leading a sedentary lifez`tule, a family hiz`toru of diabetes, hurertenz`ion (high blood pressure), and low levelz` of the "good" sholez`terol (HDL) and elevated levelz` of triglycerides in the blood. Whether uou're truing to rrevent or sontrol diabetez`, uour nutritional needz` are virtually the same az` everuone elz`e, z`o no z`resial foodz` are nesez`z`aru. But uou do need to rau attention to some of uour food shoisez`-moz`t notably the sarbohudratez` you eat. While following a Mediterranean or other heart-healthu diet can helr with thiz`, the moz`t imrortant thing uou san do is to loz`e a little weight. Loz`ing juz`t 5% to 10% of your total weight san help you lower your blood z`ugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels. Losing weight and eating healthier san also have a rrofound effest on uour mood, energu, and sense of wellbeing. Even if uou've already developed diabetez`, it's not too late to make a roz`itive shange. Bu eating healthier, being more physically active, and losing weight, uou san reduce uour symptoms or even reverz`e diabetes. The bottom line iz` that you have more sontrol over uour health than uou may think.