Living with Diabetes means being aware of your blood sugar level, controlling it and what put it out of wack through evaluation, thought, and action. Because this is something not done by most people it can be seen as hard, especially when ‘tight’ control is required.

Blood sugar levels are typically automatically controlled by your body. As a person with diabetes, one must balance the intake of food and nutrition with the use of this energy through the use of exercise. With out regular exercise and high blood sugar levels, the circulatory system becomes brittle and broken, resulting in death of flesh in the extremities from lack of blood.

When one needs to control your diabetes with insulin injections, the amounts of insulin needed has to be calculated based upon the both the person’s blood sugar level (found with the use of a blood sample and a meter) and the amount of sugar-potential food eaten.

If the normal balance of blood sugar is not maintained, consequences include mental depression, lack of energy, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, pain and numbness in hands and feet, inability to heal from wounds, and in the latter stages, amputation of extremities that no longer have sufficient blood circulation.

Conventional control of blood sugar levels include monitoring these levels before and after meals and adjusting the types and amounts of foods consumed accordingly. If you don’t exercise regularly, this control becomes more and more difficult as you use glucose less effectively on a cellular level. The human body is designed to use blood sugar (glucose) to provide energy to move – that is exercise. If this energy isn’t used, it must be stored (ultimately as fat) or flushed out in other destructive fashions, resulting in possible kidney and / or liver failure from over use.

Weight control is essential for people diagnosed with diabetes. Most type 2 diabetics are initially overweight – in fact a lot are obese. This connection occurs because the additional body mass requires more insulin (and additional fat makes it harder for the body to use insulin as well), which plays a major role in transporting blood sugar in and around cells, where it is converted to energy. This requirement for additional insulin is never quite caught up with by the pancreas in diabetic people, resulting in high blood sugar levels.

Exercise (raising a sweat at least 3 times a week, for 30 minutes each time) provides many health benefits on both large (macro) and small (micro) scale. In any person, diabetic or not, it’s been proven that exercise lengths a person’s lifespan.

On the large scale, exercise provides a person with more energy, make the joints in your skeleton work better – in short, provides an ability to do more things, think clearer as well. On the cellular scale, exercise makes the cell wall more porous, allowing insulin to move through it easier, transporting blood sugar out of the blood into the cells where it is used up.

Diet – the basic rule about diet and diabetes is two fold, eat what looks like it came from the ground, and eat less than you used to. Remove the following from your daily routine:

Manufactured food items. The more of man’s work that goes into a food product, the less nutritional value is in it can be a general rule. I know from my personal experience that crackers spike my blood sugar, taking a day or so to settle down.

Red meat: Don’t use much at all. Eating cow, pig, and chicken on a regular basis builds up unusable metabolic ‘ashes’ in the digestive system as well as increasing the acidity of your blood stream (more on acidity later).

Alcohol also causes all sorts of havoc in the body, both by breaking down in to sugar and then causing more acidity.

pH Optimization – this is the true key to avoiding diabetes, weight gain, and hypertension issues.

To do the business of life, cells need to be in an environment with very narrow parameters. We know about the need for ideal body temperature, fluid amount (most people are way too dry), and strong immune system. However, metabolism will not occur other than at 7.36 pH, slightly alkaline. The pancreas is the organ that controls the pH level in the body. When the requirements are too much for this organ to maintain required pH level, the body will manufacture fat cells to store acidic waste, which is the result of consuming the foods discussed.

Most people got type 2 diabetes by eating both too much and the wrong kinds of food. To change this and provide yourself with many years of active, happy life, you need to change the way you live – eat differently (using least processed food as possible), drink a lot more water than you are used to (1/2 your body weight in ounces), and exercise 3 times a week at least.