How to manage Type 2 Diabetes

If you have Type 2 Diabetes, you have the most common form. Either your body nor pancreas does not produce enough insulin in your pancreas, OR your blood cells ignore the insulin present in or near them. Type 2 diabetes used to be called adult-onset or noninsulin-dependent diabetes. People can develop type 2 diabetes at any age.
After you eat a meal or snack, the digestive process begins immediately to turn the carbohydrates you have just eaten into glucose, a form of sugar which your body uses as fuel for energy. Insulin carries these sugars into the blood cells. If the sugar can't get into the cells, it builds up in the bloodstream. Since you have a buildup of sugar in your blood, you have diabetes.
If you felt frightnened when you found out you have diabetes, you are not alone. It's a scary word, but it doesn't mean you can't live a long healthy life. Sure, you will need to take some extra precautions, and you will have to do some special things for your body, but you CAN control your diabetes. With treatment and lifestyle management, your sugar levels will most likely return to normal. However, it is your everyday lifestyle that will keep your sugar level in check. When your blood levels remain normal, you will know you are controlling your disease properly.

Management Goals for Type 2 Diabetes:

If you have diabetes, you know it touches every phase of your life. By taking charge of your own life, you can learn to control it, not just today, but for the rest of your life. Every day you will be balancing your food intake with your medicine. Management will include:

• Management of Type 2 Diabetes Checking your blood sugar levels every day
• Management of Type 2 Diabetes Meal planning for a balance of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats at each meal
• Keeping a food diary will help
• Management of Type 2 Diabetes Taking your prescribed medications every day
• Management of Type 2 Diabetes Increasing physical activity
• Management of Type 2 Diabetes Losing weight if necessary - even a 5 pound loss may reduce the amount of medication you need
• Management of Type 2 Diabetes Regular check up's including eyes, ears, and dental exams
• Management of Type 2 Diabetes Seek support from others
• Management of Type 2 Diabetes Getting plenty of rest
• Management of Type 2 Diabetes Reducing high blood cholesterol levels

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