I normally eat maybe twice a day if I’m busy. I rarely eat sweets, I don’t like a lot of salt and I’m allergic to fresh fruits and vegetables. I have tried snacking but I have to force myself to eat snacks. I’ve tried yogurts but because they are so sweet it takes me days to finish one container. I’ve been to doctors and I don’t have diabetes or high blood pressure. I’ve been working out but I’m concerned about my diet.

Eating twice a day is horrible for your metabolism. You need to focus on a regular diet and eating structure. Eating plain yogurt can contain a high amount of sugar, so if you’re going to snack on it get a sugar free fat free version. Yoplait sells it I believe. Also, go and buy yourself a 2-liter water bottle and force yourself to chug it consistently throughout the day. This will hyper activate your metabolism and regulate your hunger. Yes! It will make you hungry again! Since you are not eating fresh fruits and veggies, I would suggest taking a basic multivitamin once a day and buying mix-in fiber for that 2 liters of water you should be drinking. Also, eat when you are hungry! Not when a certain time comes around such as breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You should be eating small, 400 calorie meals throughout the day. The average woman should be eating around 1,600 calories daily. Snack on nuts. Those are rich in fatty acids that are important to the function of your organs. Eat fish once a weeks and lean, trimmed meats other nights. Also, continue working out like you have been, and you should be on the fast track to an amazing metabolism and shedding pounds. In my links I have included a benefits of water page and your caloric intake calculator to see how many calories you should be consuming. Good luck and remain steadfast!

Sugar is sugar, whether from fruit or a candy bar. Increase the protein and fat in your diet and drop the sugar and you should lose weight.

Read the book "Cereal Killer" by Alan Watson for a good overview of the current research that explains why too many carbohydrates can be a health problem. Or watch the movie "Fat Head".

And the "food pyramid" is based on a flawed idea about what causes heart disease and diabetes dating from the 1960’s. We’ve learned a lot since then, and the culprit turns out to be a high carbohydrate diet.

Thank you for reading everyone, I’m just wondering is all. :]
Baby dust to everyone.

They tested me every time, and every woman that I’ve known has had to get tested. Maybe you should mention it at your next appointment.

http://www.cancerproject.org/diet_cancer/facts/factors.php

"Previous studies including the Adventist Health Study-2 show that following a vegan diet results in the lowest BMI of any group (lacto-ovo-vegetarian, pesco-vegetarian, semivegetarian, nonvegetarian), making them less susceptible to obesity-related cancers." (Tonstad S, Butler T, Yan R, Fraser GE. Type of vegetarian diet, body weight, and prevalence of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2009;32:791-796.)

"The link between diet and cancer is not new. In January 1892, Scientific American printed the observation that "cancer is most frequent among those branches of the human race where carnivorous habits prevail." Numerous research studies have shown that cancer is much more common in populations consuming diets rich in fatty foods, particularly meat, and much less common in countries eating diets rich in grains, vegetables, and fruits. One reason is that foods affect the action of hormones in the body. They also affect the strength of the immune system and other factors. While fruits and vegetables contain a variety of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytochemicals to protect the body, by contrast, recent research shows that animal products contain potentially carcinogenic compounds which may contribute to increased cancer risk." (Minamoto T, Mai M, Ronai Z. Environmental factors as regulators and effectors of multistep carcinogenesis. Carcinogenesis 1999;20(4):519-27.
Skog KI, Johansson MAE, Jagerstad MI. Carcinogenic heterocyclic amines in model systems and cooked foods: a review on formation, occurrence, and intake. Food and Chem Toxicol 1998;36:879-96.)
You might look at 3 decades of peer reviewed and NIH grant research conducted to support this viewpoint. It’s sad how uninformed our professionals are about this topic.

I love your medical reference from an 1892 magazine article. Do you have anything from the current century? Medical opinions from 118 years ago need to be updated.

Crackpot pseudo-science, magic charms, and salads can’t cure cancer. It is best to stick with scientifically validated facts from the legitimate medical community when discussing disease.

You have to lift yourself up. You are the cause of your downfall. You are your best friend. You are your worst enemy…Thus goes the great saying.

The top is always vacant! The wise counsel is in demand everywhere. The best is yet to happen in your life! Life is nothing but a series of endless changes. The moment to moment changes.

You need to apply the very same rules in the treatment and control of diabetes. Some lifestyle changes help you cure the diabetes. There is no doubt about it. The reasoning is simple. Your wrong life styles took you to the portals of diabetes. Now about turn, and walk back. And reach to the place from where you started. This time, your start can not be wrong. Because you have adopted some lifestyle changes. This re-start will take you to the mansion of perfect health!

Have you read the novel, “The Sun Also Rises”? Doesn’t matter, if you have not!

When did you see the sunrise last? Now, you the confirmed diabetes patient, getup from the bed before the sunrise and take a brisk morning walk (not too brisk). That will assist the task of metabolism in the body and help you to maintain the blood sugar level.

On to the breakfast table! Demand your plateful of sprouted moong. Gone are the days of fried potato chips doused in red tomato sauce, full of preservatives! Instead, take the tomato salad, flavored with mint and lime juice!

After the breakfast, take rest for five minutes. It is time for you to check your blood pressure. If you don’t wish to do it daily, do it twice a week. During those good old days you used to take three heavy meals. Vegetables full of spice! Now you have taken a wise decision to take food five to six times, but in small quantities.

Your food consists of seasonal vegetables, fruits, preference for items that have lots of fiber content! You are strictly avoiding polished rice, and instead go for hand-pounded rice, that will get you lots of vitamin B.

Never think of junk food, cream biscuits, and chocolates. Tea and coffee are also not good for the cause of controlling diabetes. Instead go for butter milk.

Why do you worry over the matters over which you should not worry at all? If you say that worry can solve any problem including diabetes, I am prepared to even forgo my sleep and keep on worrying for 24 hours in a day. You know, stress is one of the reasons for diabetes.

So stop worrying and start living! Life is to be lived in its trials, in its tribulations, in its duty and in its beauty.

From the practical point of view, never forget to have periodical checkups at the doctor’s chamber and keep the record of your blood sugar levels!

Ashish Jain
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Any answers will help and all are appreciated! Thanks!

Tell whoever is treating your diabetes what you have said. I am assuming that your physician who is following you will hook you up with a dietitian. It should be no problem. You just gotta eat complex carbohydrates preferably with fiber to slow down the digestion. Overall, it’s healthier diet anyway.

Your dietitian would be happy to work with you. There is nothing about a vegetarian diet that would make it difficult. The only reason it is difficult is that the usual assumption is that you eat meat. Once your dietitian knows that you are a vegetarian, it’s a snap. If your doctor doesn’t work with a dietitian, you should be changing to another doctor who is anyway.

Diabetes runs in my family. My grandfather and his sister both died of complications from it, and my uncle is currently fighting a losing battle. I am afraid of developing it.

I’m a food-conscious kind of person. I avoid fast food restaurants, eat whole grains, fish, fresh fruits and vegetables, healthy fats, leaner meats on a regular basis, etc., etc., etc. However, I also have a sky-high metabolism, exercise intensely 3-5 times a week, and can’t have dairy (cheese, butter, milk, and so on) because I’m allergic. This means that I am always on the other side of the weight battle: every pound I gain is hard fought. This results in a high "treat" intake of unhealthy things like bacon, hashbrowns, candies, and so on.

I’m female, 5′6", 23, and get excited if I hit 115 lbs on any given day. I do try and gain muscle weight rather than fat weight, but honestly, this results in a very strange look – simultaneously body builder and anorexic – so I continue to load up on treats to prevent this.

All the diabetes (or other health issues) prevention literature focuses on people who are overweight. I can’t be overweight, but my diet, despite my love of healthy food, is kind of crap. How much diabetes (or even other health issues) risk am I putting myself in?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24716880/

The above article is about Even Skinny People Can Get Diabetes

Baby Girl, not so much is written about skinny people with diabetes like you and me, but we do exist.

If you have a family history of diabetes it is in your best interests to have blood draw done about every 6 months for HbA1c which is the average of glucose molecules clinging to red blood cells for the past 90 days. That is the life span of red blood cells.

And please ask for a copy of the test results for your files.

More information at http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes

Symptoms: Diabetes, or Diabetes Mellitus to give it its proper medical name, is a disorder of assimilation. When the pancreases become inactive or atrophied and cease to produce insulin, the body is unable to convert the sugar into energy for the muscles. Its chief symptoms are weakness and loss of weight, great thirst and increase in the amount of urine passed. There is sometimes voracious appetite but the patient. Gradually becomes more and more emaciated. Owing to poor vitality of the tissues, various skin eruptions like boils and carbuncles appear. There may be itching in the groins and eczema. A serious complication could be gangrene of the skin of the feet, beginning with the toes. A curious phenomenon is that the younger the patient, the more rapid is the course of the disease.

Allopathy depends mostly on administration of insulin to, dissolve the sugar in the blood and forbidding starchy and sugary foods to the patients modern science has not been able to pinpoint the real cause of the disease: what is available is only generalizations such as, obese persons are more susceptible to the disease, it attacks males more than females, or that it runs in the families etc.

Treatment: As in cases of other diseases, naturopathy recommends a diet and no drugs. The main purpose is to help the body to assimilate the sugar into the system and that can be achieved by a special diet. I would recommend about one kg of curd made from cow’s milk and various types of gourds without salt. The greener the vegetables, the most beneficial it would be. Sour fruits like tomatoes, oranges, pineapple, rose apple (jamun), scolanum (makoy) could also be taken with advantage. The patient can also take one or two chappaties made of flour, which has not been passed through sieve. The person suffering from diabetes must take long walks (preferably ten kilometers) daily. Remember that the disease strikes generally those who lead a sedan try life, and are used to a rich diet.

Cereals, sugar and preparations should not be taken for some time. The other method of treating the disease is by fasting for a couple of days and then eating sour fruit only for a week during which green vegetables may also be alternated with the fruits. Curd made from cow’s milk must form and inevitable part of the every meal. If the curd is not available, about 50 grammes of germinated gram may be taken with every meal. After about a fortnight of this regimen, the patient can take bread made of whole flour.

Diabetics must take physical exercise as that helps to utilize the blood sugar. Walking, preferably jugging is the best exercise I can recommend. Hipbath recommended by kunhe is extremely beneficial in the case of diabetes, particularly for patients suffering from constipation. For a leathery skin most diabetes develops, the best exercise is vigorous rubbing of the skin with a rough towel for fifteen minutes before a bath with cold water.

Allopaths while recommending a sugar face-free diet to the diabetic prescribes a high protein diet like fish, eggs, meat and lentils leading to an imbalance in his food. Advising patients to take saccharine instead of sugar, the allopaths expose them to the danger of slow poisoning. The harmful effects of saccharine have recently been observed.

The diabetic must also try to remain cheerful and keep his poise. There are some asanas recommended by yoga specialists which ave proved helpful in dealing with the disease.

Find more information regarding Natural Home Remedies for Diabetes and Natural Home Remedies

Dr John Anne
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