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New Diabetes Links Added

2005-12-06T02:59:00.000-08:00

New Diabetes Links Added

By Alevoor Rajagopal

I have been scouting for some informative web sites for my diabetic fraternity. It was not very difficult finding a few. But I had certain things in mind.

Any one that has diabetes can search a web site himself
Google has 90,100,000 results for diabetes
Add to it other top SEs another similar figure

How will any one decide which one is a good site and which contains reasonably authoritative information on diabetes? Sample this. When I set out to do this myself, sometimes ago, I was frustrated by by certain programs called as web robots. They are as it appeared to me are just virtual programs to show ads by google page after page.

Well. I think there are quite a few more better sites on diabetes information on the web. Here I have just tried to give a small list of themthat really contain information on diabetes, I have personally used, to complement your favorite this very site.

You will find the list I made on the side bar here, just below the google search engine and the block of useful links. I have named it Diabtes Network. This makes it easy for new visitors to understand what they get if they clicked.

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Know Your Diabetes

2005-12-05T01:14:00.001-08:00

Know Your Diabetes

By Alevoor Rajagopal

Appeal: I call upon readers to contribute to hope4diabetes, my blog.

A thoughtful man/woman will do himself or herself a world of good. And if we confine this argument to diabetes, I say this is not as difficult as managing your business but surely diabetes needs you do some pampering. We will see hows and whats of this.

Some where in my earlier posts I had said diabetes brings discipline to ones life. You need to watch your every step. Morning till evening you are on guard against what increases your glucose artificially or something that threaten to shoot up your chance of accumulating cholestrol. Stand firm against the pulls of your friends and mouth watering dishes.

Still there is hope4diabetes if you know yours. To do this you can write down the physical changes you see in youself. This you can do in a diary dedicated to your diabetes. You can continue your dairy even after the year has ended. Say, what all you can write in to this? Well this is a tricky one if you are a new diabetic. To begin with, the sugar levels FPS and PPBS against the date. You can also have a remarks column. If you thought, a particular incidence had triggered a glucose imbalance on that day, do note it down there. You can write down the insulin dose/drug dose there depending on whether yousis Type 1 diabetes ot Type 2 diabetes.

It is not a bad idea to include a columnfor noting the low sugars too, this however can be done in the remarks column. But it strikes you bold when you are analysing in retrospect. It makes a quick reference.

It pays to have a record of your diabetes in this manner. You can very well carry this dairy in your pocket too. It sure does carry your address with your home and emergency telephones. You can also include your doctor's cell number, just in case.

I have writtenn much without uttering a word about knowing more about diabetes. But this was not the intention. It is important to know diabetes is a life long as well as life threatening disease. And what better way to know it than begining with its history within you.

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Diabetes and My Wife

2005-12-03T04:50:00.001-08:00

Diabetes and My Wife

By Alevoor Rajagopal

If you had been following this diabetes series, here is the continuation. I promise to end this here. I just had to tell you about what crossed my wife when she saw improvement in my diabetes. And what doctors had to say.

Well. Doctors just gave a smile and shoved the report at me. That was enough for my wife to heave a sigh. It releived me more than the test report or the doctor's smile. Well it had not cured my diabetes. But it was enough for me to take some liberty regarding my eating habits. But this was not to live long as I discovered.

Wife looked down upon me from the edge of her eyes at my hinting that we have dinner at a restaurant. She said it was only the report of my past control and not an insurance for the future. She also made it clear that it was she who controled my blood glucose, not me.

I thought I could tame diabetes well and would sure fail if I had to control ... ahem ... I don't understand, why the wives of the world don't realize their husbands' merry moods and freedoms. Some times you don't understand certain things in life (wife?). Perhaps this is one of the nature's best kept secrets.

My Experiments With Diabetes Part 2

2005-11-29T08:10:00.000-08:00

My Experiments With Diabetes Part 2

By Alevoor Rajagopal

Well. Well. I have notied Delhiites keeping up late into the night and waiting to read me posting here. Cheers Delhi for doing it in the biting cold of december. Still more have been visiting me here just before they shut down their PCs and signed off for the day from offices. Thanks very much Delhi.

But hold a minute. Don't run so fast. I need to just walk 'cause I can only walk. Yes diabetes wants that you walk a lot. Walk atleast 40 minutes a day. But you see, you can't spread it all through the day and say you did it. It has a definition, the walking in diabetes that is. Want to take a look? Well read on. Those who have not read the earlier part can click here.

Walking has to be for 40 to 45 minutes preferably in the morning. And this 40 minutes should not just see you hardly passing through to your verrandah from your bed. It starts thereafter. It has to be brisk and how much? They adviced me to go round in circles nine times on the athletics track. And obviously it makes 400 meters in one round and nine rounds in all.

My God! So fast? Each round taking just 10 minutes? Well not so much as to beat the life out of athletes. They take not longer than 50 seconds to complete a round. Don't worry, your intention is to beat glucose only. And you will do it with aplomb.

Well. Did I say morning is prefered? It is because walking in a boulevard for all that distance will make you gasp for air rich with morning oxygen. Think over Delhi you have your chance to control/escape diabetes.

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My Experiments With Diabetes

2005-11-28T21:23:00.000-08:00

My Experiments With Diabetes

By Alevoor Rajagopal

You can ask me why experiment when every thing was clear and on the board. With diabetes you never know. But with me you will never ever know. I had heard of experiences people advised me with. But all of them went round around neutralizing glucose with eating hot, spicey or flushing out glucose drinking lots of water.

Yak...Unscientific! Drinking water may help to certain extent but not the neutralizing theory definetely. At best it could reduce the proportion of glucose in your blood but not by removing it. So here are some interesting things I did with my diabetes.

I took up the advice of drinking water. I knew about 1.5 leters of it would wash out toxins from the blood. But what about glucose? How much more or less of it should I be drinking? One thing was sure, water was a universal solvent. So it took away glucose from my body when ever I urinated, may be a lots of them.

But how does it help? Infact it actually exposed me to dangers of conduiting more glucose through my kidneies which should not have been. More over it did not reduce the glucose by a bit too. I just had the relief that it prevented glucose damaging my heart, eyes and arteries.

I stopped eating sweets and sugar in tea and coffee. From childhood I had an aversion to sweet dishes and that when I discovered diabetes, it did not really hurt me to give up sweets. But what about coffee that I was fond of sipping only with a tinge of sugar? Believe me, now it is 2 years since and I feel like running away from coffee with sugar.

The most important of my experiments with diabetes is switching over to calculated, balanced food. I was aware of nutritional values of most of them. I gave up meat eating as a first step. The only reason was, I knew how to compensate for it with vegetables. There are foods that digest slow releasing glucose slow in the process and there are foods that have low proportions of glucose (carbohydrates). It always helps to have just about enough glucose levels in diabetes than you could assimilate.

My family was up in arms on all these. My wife believed diabetes was nothing short of a killer. She did not like a bit of my experiments. But look here, I never ventured out of a physician's advice. Whatever I did was to help my diabetes come to terms with my physiology (frail body) and contain that in a more natural way. My phylosophy was, if it helped with least of medications, so be it.

It showed by two months of my persistance. FPS and PPBS quite under control.

I will write how the doctor and my wife reacted to my experiments in the next posting.

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Diabetes and I Part - 2

2005-11-28T12:01:00.000-08:00

Diabetes and I Part - 2

By Alevoor Rajagopal
How was that I diagnosed for diabetes? Was it by accident or was it because of an extraordinary intelligence of a doctor? Well. It was both plus my search thru' google that helped me discover I had diabetes.

The symptom was vissibly apparent. I developed a blister in my right arm pit. And it took ages to subside. Most of the MDs treated me with antibiotics and some injections. I ran around with diabetes (without knowing for sure it was that) from Mysore to Mangalore and to Mumbai. It was time about for me to leave for Tanzania on a business trip.

I had proposed for a life insurance with ICICI Purudential at that time. And ICICI Prudential required me to undergo a comprehensive medical in order to qualify. Ofcourse it was not aimed at finding out whether I had diabetes or not, but it sure did find out I had it. Oh God! You just proved it once again. What I wished would never touch me was all over me, the sweetest killer. I had known the symptoms from my google searches and my sister, a doc .

Till then I thought it was enough for a diabetic to stop consuming sugar (this I later discovered was not easy). Diabetes was not just about that and required a lot of controls on my life styles too. I was keeping long hours in the night, smoking a bit. But more than all, what diabetes took away from me was my freedom to eat what I and when I wanted. I was slowly getting ready to welcome the sugary killer that diabetes was in to my system.

Alcohol and smoking were the worst enemies that were to be kept at bay as long as I wished to live. Work outs and walkings were in things with me. A little bit of yoga and meditation of a few minutes a day and all these I had to squeeze in between my daily routine as asking an extra hour every day was foolish.

In my view Diabetes makes a man/woman a desciplined and busy person. It makes most of your schedules and tells when you should do what and why.

Diabetes is not a disease on its own. It is a gate way to many of the dreaded ones. You can explode your eyes with glaucoma, you can collapse your heart with collesterol, you invite kidney failures and strokes if you play with diabetes. Mind you diabetes is the single most biggest killer in the world if you took all the failures attributable to diabetes.

I will deal with all of them in my tryst with it in the coming posts in these pages. Thanks till then.

Diabetes - Living in Health

2005-11-26T16:56:00.000-08:00

Diabetes - Living in Health

By Charles Cruz

Many people are already starting to catch up with the knowledge that your energy is directly proportional to what you put into your body (A.K.A. food).

Studies have shown that if you eat a high "raw" vegetable diet, your energy will increase tenfold and you will have more vibrant health in your life. It is recommended to eat as most vegetables as you can. Once you have tried this, and once you have felt the improved wellness of following a healthy diet, it will be hard to go back.

When people say they are tired, that they have back or neck pains, when they say they caught a cold, this are all sympthoms of having your PH balance lowered. In return, your body starts to accumulate more and more cholesterol as a defense mechanism to "trap" the acidity of your body. This in return starts to cause diseases.

This is when diabetes comes in. 80% of the diabetic population are obese. One of the main goals in the diabetes diet is to lower your weight and maintain it. You must keep this is mind.

In addition to bringing you to your ideal weight, the purpose of your diet is to maintain regular glucose levels in your body, to protect your heart by maintaining healthy lipid (cholesterol and triglyceride)levels, and to control blood pressure.

These are the basic guidelines and purpose of a diabetic diet but there are other things you want to consider, depending on what type of diabetes are you treating and the specific conditions of each person.

For example, a simple heart healthy diet can work great for people with type 2 diabetes, but a type 1 diabetes person may require a different kind of diet. These are things your doctor or nutritionist will design specifically for you.

What a person may not know, is that when studies have been conducted on similar people with different diets, the most important factor in getting great results was not the diet itself. The biggest most important factor in maintaining good health lies in being attentive and focused on the diet itself. In other words, any healthy diet works if patients work at it.

Intricate dietary methods are available for control of blood sugar in type 1 and more severe type 2 diabetes. If one of these approaches works in controlling glucose levels, there is no reason to choose another. Each of them can be effective, but because regulating diabetes is an individual situation, everyone with this condition should get help from a dietary professional in selecting the best method. nd. You must start to live in health.

Learn more about Diabetes management with Charles Cruz CEO of Diabetes Cure center. (http://my-diabetes-health.info/sitemap.html)

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Diabetes and I

2005-11-26T16:43:00.000-08:00

Diabetes and I

By Alevoor Rajagopal

I am a diabetes patient since diagnosed for it and suffered diabetes even before diagnosed. Well this may be a little bit confusing to some of you who are not diabetics and are here just to seek information on this sweet and sugary dread. The fact is diabetes doesn't show symptoms for several years till you accidintally discover it and when you run a very high sugar level. Very high is literally so high enough to fell you on the move.

Well this is one site where I want to provide all the information on diabetes, variety of diabetes, insulin, visible symptoms and of course some very useful links. I have a treasure of information that I unearthed using google when I discovered I had type 2 diabetes. I had consulted many MDs and diabetologists.

I hope to update the blog regularly and as information is available on the net. The informations will be catagorised for easy navigation all with your convenience in view. To you, this means if you want to read on insulins you will have a particular link to that section. These links will be arranged neatly on the right side bar. To improve browsing experience, I have limited just five posts per page so that you dont have to drag the tiny scroll bar long way down.

My older posts will be listed with descriptive titles with links to their texts just below usefull lnks that might interest you. For your further research, I am providing the convenience of searching the net for more on diabetes or insulin, from my site. You will find google in the side bar for this.

I am planning posting from Physicians, diabetologists, external writers in additions to my own articles. As and when the opportunity provides, you will see interviews of experts in the healthcare profession including dieticiens and yoga therapists.

You will find external links to all prominant organizations dealing with diabetes the dreaded sugary disease.