Type 2 Diabetes is a very serious health condition. However, it can be treated and managed, which helps to prevent long term complications of the disease, such as nerve damage, heart disease, liver disease, and vision damage. Mainstream medicine often treats type 2 diabetes with medications, diet, exercise, and sometimes insulin injections. However, if you are borderline diabetic or your blood sugars aren’t too much into the diabetic range, you often can treat the disease without medications, at least for a while.
The first thing to do is to go on a weight loss diet. The best diet for reversing type 2 diabetes and the silent inflammation that goes along with it is the Zone diet by Dr. Barry Sears. It still allows you to eat your favorite starchy foods, but in small amounts. For information on how to get started today, visit www.zonediet.com and click on the Quick Start Guide. The diet will improve your blood sugar within a couple of days, and often within a couple months you will have lost a significant amount of weight and your blood pressure should improve dramatically.
Exercise is the other component of treating diabetes naturally. All that you need to do is exercise for at least 30 to 45 minutes daily, because after 30 minutes is when the body really starts using fat for fuel. Make sure to eat a small snack with a balanced ratio of proteins, good fats, and carbohydrates about one hour prior to exercise. If you are out of shape or significantly overweight, consult your physician to make sure it is okay to begin an exercise program. If you get the okay, then get moving. You don’t need to start out at a crazy speed, just start moving and work your way up. The key is to just keep moving for at least 30 minutes even if it is not high intensity.
After doing this for several months, go back to your doctor and have them recheck your glucose, fasting insulin, A1C, and blood pressure, and most likely they will be much improved, if not completely normal.