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What Else Can I Do to Help Husband with Diabetes?Posted By Jacqui (Scottsville, Ky) on 12/12/2012
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With his condition he should follow a low carb diet, not a strict Atkins type diet. Whole grain pasta has fiber, where regular pasta does not. Some veggies like carrots and beets, even onions have a lot of sugar, natural sugar, still it is sugar.
This is a lifestyle for your pin cushion, I mean husband. He really must monitor everything he eats, diabetes is a nasty disease. There is all kinds of good reading on the INTERNET, he should take the opportunity to do so. Knowledge is a weapon, he must be armed to battle this.
My ex mother in-law is diabetic, so I did a lot or research on the subject. I am no expert by any means. My understanding is circulation is compromised too. Exercise is also very important, walking, or anything to keep it moving. I know her legs and feet would ache terrible. The more she hurt the more she would lay. It was a vicious cycle. When I was able to get her off the couch she did notice an improvement.
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15 minutes or more of aerobic and weight-bearing exercise almost every day. I use music that I enjoy so I'm happy to do it.
Go gluten-free because the celiac disease is another auto-immune disease that many doctors believe leads to diabetes. It seems to have in my case. There are more and more deicious whole grain gluten free breads and even biscuits. You can buy some very good gluten free baking mixes.
I daily take chromium picolinate, vanadium sulfate, cinnamon, gymnema sylvestre and alpha lipoic acid (for the pancreas). The other four balance blood sugar levels.
I only eat whole grain pasta (quinoia is a good one) and lots of green leaf vegies. Cruciferous vegies are ok only it cooked. Chicken and fish with occasional lean red meat seem best for me. Beans are a great source of fiber as well as protein. Yellow pea powder is extremely easy to digest and works well in protein shakes. Dairy is usually a problem for diabetics, so I use rice milk or coconut milk. Stevia is a great sweetener that doesn't raise blood sugar levels much. So, you can add it and maybe a low-sugar red foods powder (powdered fruits), or even a green powder (powdered vegies) and maybe an orange flavoring with that one.
You'll have to do a lot of your food shopping at health food grocery stores and organic is best for diabetics as pesticides and other toxins aggravate the disease.
Swansons Vitamins and VitaCost online are very economical places to buy supplements and lots of gluten free products.
You and your husband may find that you can pretty easily adapt to a change in lifestyle that will make the diabetes fairly easy to live with. It's the holidays waking up my sweet tooth that prove seriously challenging to me every darned year!