Tips to control blood glucose without medication

You are lucky if you know beforehand that you are going to get diabetes. I called you lucky because you can do something to save yourself from taking medications and injections. You cannot prevent diabetes since it is heriditary but you can always keep them under control. This topic will be more useful for people who are at high risk of getting diabetes, those in pre-diabetic stage or probably gestational diabetic mothers.

Diet and exercise plays an important role to maintain your blood glucose level without medication. May be these are the only tricks and tips to keep yourself away from medication.

1. The total number of calories is usually individualized based on your current or desired weight and the presence of existing health problems. But the accepted diabetic diet may be 1000 or 1200 Kcal diabetic diet/day, which is adequate and maintains a good blood glucose level in most of the clients.

2. Make a plan of your daily diet considering 1200 Kcal as your limit. Do not have the same plan for the next day, instead use different food items each day so that you are not bored or start to hate a specific food.

3. You can find out a large variety of foods that can be used by diabetic clients from certain associations like 'food exchange from the American diabetic association diet or dietary guidelines for Americans' which are issued by the U.S Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human services.

4. You need not cook seperately for yourself because there is no food that you should avoid. All that matters is the amount. Cook for the whole family as usual but stay within your limits.

5. When you are planning your diet, consider your own likes and dislikes.

6. Eat 6 meals a day, you will feel hungry and go into low sugars easily because you eat less.

7. Eat foods that fills your stomach and is low in Calories.

8. If life style or your kind of occupation is causing this problem, you might have to alter or change them if necessary. Some people sit the whole 8 hours a day in their work which may lead to obesity and eventually diabetes. Such kind of workers can take a walk in between and have the habit of exercising daily.

9. Exercise will definitely lower the blood glucose levels.

10. As exercising causes weight loss, naturally your blood sugar level drops down.

11. Involve in some kind of sports or games you are interested in.

12. If you don't like to do exercise then try aerobics or yoga.

13. Keep yourself active and do the regular household work which itself is a good exercise.

14. Swimming, walking and jogging everyday keeps your body energitic and your mind at peace.

15. Buy a glucometer and check your sugar levels daily until its maintained.

These tips and tricks will surely keep your sugars under control without medication but keep your physician notified about your diet, exercise and sugar levels from time to time.