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Use Glycemic Foods Index to Lower Blood Sugar Levels

Different foods have different effects on glucose levels in your blood. The quicker the food is broken down during the digestive process, the higher it is on the Glycemic Foods Index or GI.  A food will be considered low on the Glycemic Food Index if the food is broken down slower.  The glycemic index [...]

How to Keep Your Blood Sugar Levels Normal

Testing and monitoring your blood sugar levels regularly lets you understand how your body reacts to various foods and activities. Knowing these information is crucial if you are going to work at keeping your blood sugar levels normal. Keeping within normal blood sugar range is not an easy task and is not something that is [...]

6 Simple Ways on How to Lower Sugar in Your Blood

Prolonged elevated blood glucose levels is detrimental to your health as a diabetic or prediabetic and can cause various long term complications like blindness, kidney failure, amputation etc. Therefore, keeping your blood sugar levels low is important. This article shares with you a few ways to lower your blood sugar levels whether you are a [...]

How to Calculate BMI and Understand the Results

BMI stands for Body Mass Index and is a form of determining whether a person is at an ideal weight, is overweight or possibly obese. Since being overweight or obese puts you at a higher risk for diabetes and prediabetes, it is important for you to understand it. In this article, we will teach you [...]

How to Lower Blood Sugar Without Medication

Diabetes has become increasingly diagnosed over the years. High sugar levels in your blood is the cause of this disease. If you have been diagnosed as having high blood sugar, there are a handful of things that you can do to lower your blood sugar levels. You can learn how to lower [...]

Diabetic And Prediabetic Footcare Part 3 of 4 – Harmful Practices

In my previous post, i mentioned about 6 Tips on good diabetic or prediabetic footcare practices.
In this post, i shall share 12 really harmful practices which you should avoid if you are a diabetic or prediabetic.  Remember : Prevention is better than cure - ALWAYS.
The 12 Harmful Diabetic and Prediabetic Footcare Practices are:

Diabetic And Prediabetic Footcare Part 2 of 4 – Good Footcare Practices

Welcome back for Part 2 of Diabetic and Prediabetic Footcare.  If you miss part 1, here it is - Recognising An At-Risk Foot.
In this post, i shall be sharing some tips on some good footcare practices for diabetics and prediabetics alike.

Diabetic And Prediabetic Footcare Part 1 of 4 – Recognising an “At-Risk Foot”

One of the major consequences of being a diabetic is limb amputations. In Singapore alone, there are 2 to 3 limb amputations daily because of diabetic foot complications.
Even if you are just a prediabetic, it still pays for you to take good care of your foot and be able to recognise what is an [...]

10 Useful Tips For Prediabetics to Keep Trim

One of the most important thing to do if you want to reverse prediabetes is to lose weight.  A 10 to 15% weight loss can reduce your risk of developing into Type 2 Diabetes by 50%.
Here are 10 Useful Tips to Keep Trim

Exercise regularly
Never skip meals and try to eat more meals a day in smaller [...]

Things I Hate Most About Being a Prediabetic

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I have been diagnosed with prediabetes for almost 1 year and the here are some of the things i hate most about being a prediabetic

when my son offers me a candy and i have to say NO to him. Now he don’t give me anymore
more half the people i talked to never heard prediabetes [...]