Carbohydrates will make your blood sugar levels go up, period. There are three types of carbs in food: sugar, starch, and dietary fiber. Starch and sugar both raise blood glucose levels so including both types in your meal plan is essential, but they have to be in moderate quantities. Foods that are rich in carbs are:

• Beans and legumes
• Grains, starchy vegetables(potatoes)
• Fruit
• Milk and yogurt
• Sweets and chips

By keeping track of how many carbohydrates you eat and setting a limit for your maximum amount to eat, you can help to keep your blood glucose levels on track. The dietician that is nearest your Capitola real estate can give you a guide on how to count carbs.

Fats

Not much attention is paid to fats, but they are very important to prevent heart disease and help to keep your blood sugar in control. There are healthy and unhealthy fats. The unhealthy fats are the saturated and trans fats. The healthy fats are the monounsaturated, polyunsaturated and omega-3 fats. It is not enough to tell you what is good and what is not. Here is a list of foods that have unhealthy fat and should be avoided at the grocery near your Capitola real estate.

• High-fat dairy products such as full-fat cheese, cream, ice cream, whole milk, 2% milk and sour cream.
• High-fat meats like regular ground beef, bologna, hot dogs, sausage, bacon and spareribs
• Lard
• Butter
• Fatback and salt pork
• Cream sauces
• Gravy made with meat drippings
• Chocolate
• Palm oil and palm kernel oil
• Coconut and coconut oil
• Poultry (chicken and turkey) skin
• Processed foods like snacks (crackers and chips) and baked goods (muffins, cookies and cakes) with hydrogenated oil or partially hydrogenated oil
• Stick margarine
• Shortening
• Some fast food items such as french fries
• Egg yolks
• Liver and other organ meats

These foods contain healthy fat and can be found at any grocery store near your Capitola real estate.

• Avocado
• Canola oil
• Nuts like almonds, cashews, pecans, and peanuts
• Olive oil and olives
• Peanut butter and peanut oil
• Sesame seeds
• Corn oil
• Cottonseed oil
• Safflower oil
• Soybean oil
• Sunflower oil
• Walnuts
• Pumpkin or sunflower seeds
• Soft (tub) margarine
• Mayonnaise
• Salad dressings
• Albacore tuna
• Herring
• Mackerel
• Rainbow trout
• Sardines
• Salmon
• Tofu and other soybean products
• Walnuts
• Flaxseed and flaxseed oil
• Canola oil

The lists are long so that you can have a comprehensive group of foods that you can eat. There is nothing worse than feeling that you have to eat the same foods day in and day out .

Unlike type 1, insulin is still produced in people with type 2 diabetes, although the body isn’t able to recognize or utilize the insulin properly. This causes a condition known as insulin-resistance, where the glucose isn’t able to enter the cells, but instead builds up in the bloodstream, leaving the cells unable to function correctly.

Causes

The exact causes for type 1 diabetes are still not known. Researchers do know that genetics may play a role, as well as being exposed to certain types of viruses that may ultimately trigger the onset of the disease.  Although not every person with type 2 diabetes is overweight, being obese and getting a lack of exercise are two of the most common causes of the disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the U.S., these two factors together are responsible for over 90% of all cases of diabetes.

Treatment

The proper treatment, which will depend upon the type of the disease, and ongoing care are both of the utmost importance for diabetes patients. By controlling the disease, the risks of other complications are decreased. Those with type 1 diabetes will need to faithfully monitor blood sugar levels, take insulin, maintain a normal weight, and stay physically active.

The majority of those diagnosed with type 2 diabetes will need to take oral medication to control the levels of glucose within the blood. Along with the many types of medication available for treating diabetes, dietary changes and a regular exercise routine are usually most recommended for further controlling the disease.

People with type 2 diabetes will also have to monitor the level of sugar in the blood, possibly needing to check the number as often as once or twice per day, or as little as once or twice per week.

Prevention

Although type 1 diabetes cannot yet be prevented, having a close family member, such as a parent or sibling with diabetes increases your own risk of developing the disease. Scientists are continuing to test various methods of preventing or at least delaying this type of diabetes using oral insulin, and studying new ways of preserving one’s insulin production.

Making healthy lifestyle choices are the most important means of preventing type 2 diabetes. Besides eating right, staying active, and losing excess weight, there are many risk factors associated with type 2 diabetes that can be avoided or controlled to lessen the chances of getting the disease.

These risk factors include:

- Eating a high-fat diet

- Having high blood pressure

- Having high levels of blood triglycerides (fats)

- Having gestational diabetes, or giving birth to a baby larger than 9 pounds

- Consuming large amounts of alcohol

- Having a sedentary lifestyle with little or no regular exercise

- Being overweight or obese

- Ethnicity, African Americans, Native Americans, Japanese and Hispanic

Americans all have a higher risk of developing diabetes as opposed to non- Hispanic whites

- Having a family history of the disease

- Age, the risk rises after age 45, and then rises again considerably after age 65

Effects

Serious side effects from diabetes usually occur when a person’s glucose (blood sugar) level remains high for long periods of time. These problems usually include kidney damage and dialysis, vision problems, heart disease, blood and circulation problems, damaged nerve cells in any part of your body. And that may lead to amputation (especially feet and legs).