Weight Loss and Diabetes

Weight Management
Weight Loss and Diabetes
Weight Loss

Diabetes prevention; losing weight

Diabetes (type 2) is often triggered by rapid weight gain or obesity in the childhood years. Obesity is a big risk factor and approximately 90 percent of all sufferers of diabetes type 2 are overweight, or were overweight, when they started receiving treatment for diabetes.

Obesity is the result of a dramatic increase in the number of fat cells in the body. To break down these fat cells, the intake of food must be changed. Losing weight is also a change of life style and incorporating a healthy way of cooking and eating into a busy life can be complicated.

Consuming food that has a lower calorie count than the previous diet, will result in loss of weight. It can be all too tempting to opt for the speedy way to lose weight. Diet pills, shakes and special meals that contain a very small number of calories will certainly help you lose weight in a short amount of time if you exercise discipline. However, this sort of diet will only make diabetes worse, as blood sugar levels swing up and down due to a disturbed pattern of eating.

This low-calorie diet can never be maintained for longer than a set (short) period of time, resulting in weigh gain when the patient returns to his or her previous eating habits.

Losing weight if you suffer from diabetes will make you feel better within a few days after having started the diet. Blood sugar levels will be steadier if you eat more regularly and snack on fruit and nuts instead of candy and other snacks high in sugar. The blood glucose level will go down, noticeably, often in the first two weeks after having started eating more healthily and exercising.

Losing ten to fifteen pounds will make a diabetes 2 patient feel much more energetic and, because glucose and blood fat levels are lower as a result of a healthy life style, usually the medicine intake can be decreased dramatically. A doctor can give the best advice on how to change a diet.