Posted on 05/11/2022 3:00:53 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
A new study suggests that controlling blood sugar levels within the first year of diabetes diagnosis reduces the incidence of major cardiovascular events. Furthermore, the team also found that the more a patient's blood levels varied 12 months after diagnosis, the more likely they were to experience dangerous cardiovascular events.
Dr. Martin Whyte, co-author of the study and Reader in Metabolic Medicine at the University of Surrey, says that "the conventional wisdom has been to slowly and steadily treat type 2 diabetes with diet and medicine dose-escalation over years—the period over which it took people to reduce their sugar levels after diagnosis was thought less important for major vascular protection. However, our observational study suggests that getting blood levels under control quickly—within the first 12 months after diagnosis—will significantly help reduce cardiovascular events."
Type 2 diabetes is a common condition that results in the level of sugar in the blood becoming too high. The condition is linked to obesity or a family history of type 2 diabetes and can increase a person's risk of serious health conditions.
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Sounds like an interesting dietary plan. I would like to add that while exercising is healthy any time of the day, doing it closer to bed time is best for diabetics because the liver is producing glucose while we sleep, regardless of what you had for dinner. Most people don’t know this because you can’t check your BS while you sleep.
That has changed fairly recently, however, with glucose monitoring devices such as the Dexcom and Libre 2. I would recommend any diabetics here to check with your health insurance to see if either of those two devices are covered because they eliminate the need to poke yourself, as they continually monitor your glucose levels. I use the Libre 2 and it is fully covered by my health insurance and it has fixed my diet simply because it has allowed me to see what certain foods do to my glucose in real time, therefore I can adjust what I eat and what not to.
OTC, CVS, Walgreens, etc. About $50.
Don’t Italians take an afternoon nap?
Yep, siesta is a thing for southern Italians too. It makes sense in a hot climate before air conditioning. Take a nap in the hot part of the day.
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