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The 3 legs of your diabetes stool
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Living with diabetes can be tricky: medications to regulate, carbohydrates to count, and exercises to complete. If you are living with diabetes and are following your doctor’s orders, you have a good chance for living a long and rich life. If, however, you chose to make your own contrary choices about managing your health, you are most likely headed for a rough ride.
You see, diabetes is a three-legged stool. Without any one leg, the stool will not stand. As the stool requires balance to serve its purpose, so does your life. Eliminating or decreasing the attention given to any one aspect of diabetes self-management is risky business. The legs of this three-legged stool are medication, nutrition, and exercise.
Medication – Take the time to learn about your diabetes medications. Find out how they work to control your blood sugars. Ask your doctor why certain medications were chosen for you. Be diligent in the taking of your meds. Keep current on new treatments and new prescriptions that become available. Ask your doctor if these meds are right for you.
Nutrition – As it has been said before, ‘you are what you eat.’ What goes into your body helps to determine your blood sugar levels. Learn how to count carbohydrates and learn which foods can help stabilize your blood sugar. Learn about how a plant-based diet could eliminate your need for diabetes-related medications by delivering excellent nutrition to impaired tissues..
Exercise – Whether you are walking or cycling, scrubbing floors or raking leaves, you are exercising. Although some people think that exercise is a dirty word, research is showing that exercise can help to stave off many common conditions such as heart disease, cancer, obesity, and diabetes. Exercise is paramount in the life of a diabetic. Exercise lowers blood sugar and is an uncomplicated way to keep blood sugar under control. Without exercise, diabetics fight an uphill battle.
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