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How to Lower Blood Sugar Without Medication
By edwinseow | January 28, 2009
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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 sugar levels on your own, with just a few minor adjustments to your life.
Exercise is one of the best things you can do to help lower your blood sugar levels. There is no need to join a gym or buy expensive work out equipment. Instead, you can simply take a walk every morning before work or even in the evenings prior to going to bed. You can obviously opt to do more vigorous exercise programs, but it is not necessary. Any exercise program that you choose should be suitable to you and your lifestyle and should last for about 20-30 minutes.
Eating foods low in sugar, will also help to lower blood sugar levels. There are many foods available that are sugar-free; this is a good place to start. Simply make a conscious effort to purchase foods with little to no sugar in them. Begin by replacing certain snacks and common foods, with those that are sugar-free.
Eventually you will have replaced high sugar foods in your house with sugar-free foods.
Foods with carbohydrates are saturated with sugar as they turn into sugar once your body has digested the food. To lower blood sugar levels, stay away from foods that are high in carbohydrates. This part of the process may be a little more difficult than eating foods without sugar as many foods contain carbohydrates. Some foods that are rich with carbohydrates are breads, pastas, potatoes, and hard beans.
If you are already eating a low carbohydrate diet, and you still have high sugar levels, you may need to look more closely at the foods that you are eating. Leafy green veggies, salad mixes, meat, and most other green vegetables contain extremely low amounts of carbohydrates. This type of eating plan will help to lower your blood sugar levels.
Another unfortunate cause of elevated sugar levels is being overweight. How to lower sugar levels, if you are overweight, is to burn off as much excess weight as possible. You can accomplish this by exercising on a daily basis and lowering the amount of carbohydrates that you intake. Additionally, if you eat five to six small meals a day, your metabolism increases. Increasing your metabolism helps your body to burn excess fat, which will help you to lose weight.
If you have high blood sugar, you must learn how to lower sugar levels before it turns into diabetes. Exercising, lowering (or eliminating) sugar intake and losing extra weight are just three steps to lowering your blood sugar. Lowering blood sugar levels can - at times - cause you to become weak or even get a headache. Watching for these signs and learning how your body works, will help you to counteract these effects.
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Topics: Blood Sugar Control, Diabetes Overview |
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January 28th, 2011 at 11:16 am
This article is useful for me.
I exercise twice a week. It make me healthy.
April 4th, 2011 at 12:29 am
i have type 2 diabeties.. have been running high lately.. doctor want to put me on meds.. But once i start the meds i can not stop. is that right?
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