Fighting Diabetes, Proactively!

Here is a nice story on how difficult managing diabetes can be,

Watching him try to manage diabetes was an eye-opener. I didn’t know diabetics shouldn’t walk barefoot. Or that a simple ingrown hair could result in an emergency-room visit. And, as a food writer, I take for granted the privilege of being able to eat anything at any time.

The article ends with what I keep saying, “To help postpone or prevent Type 2 diabetes, eat a healthy diet and aim for 30 minutes daily of moderate exercise.”
Good Reading.

Some Dr John Ann has an article on nature cure, to help reduce blood sugar. Not very comprehensive, but useful nonetheless.

1. Cinnamon: Studies are finding that cinnamon reduces blood sugar levels naturally when taken daily. If you completely love cinnamon you can shower the recommended six grams of cinnamon on your food throughout the day to attain the desired effect. If you are not that big a fan of cinnamon there is another substitute…cinnamon capsules..

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A community approach to diabetic care proves to improve the efficiency of diabetic care, indicates the result of a study funded by Novo Nordisk.

To date, 60 team participants from 19 physician practices caring for a total of 1,300 patients have participated in ACP’s “Closing the Gap” module for diabetes, a program that seeks to close the gap between clinical evidence and best practices and the care actually provided in a physician’s office. The practice-based, team-oriented program trains teams - usually an internist, a nurse, and a staff assistant - to improve the quality of care for patients with chronic diseases.

This team-based approach has resulted in statistically significant improvements in many clinical measures such as a nearly 50 percent improvement in the average number of days between patient office visits for diabetes (from 115 days to 58), a 40 percent increase in annual urine albumin testing, a 62 percent increase in annual dilated eye exams (29 percent to 47), and a 100 percent increase in influenza vaccinations (26 percent to 52). Other important improvements were seen in patients’ lipids levels such as lower total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol.

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