Diabetes Journal

Manage your Sugar Diabetes with a Sugar Diabetes Meal Plan

By Donald Lawrence

As someone who suffers from diabetes, you might believe that the only way that you can contain your condition is through the utilization of medication. Fortunately, there are other things you can do besides taking medication to treat your sugar diabetes. You can have the same effect on your health as that medication by just making some small changes to your diet.

By creating a personal diabetes meal plan, the likelihood of actually maintaining the diet increases. Your plan can be made up of foods you enjoy if they are appropriate for diabetics. A food plan is helpful, but can't be successful on its own. Don't allow yourself to find ways to mentally back out of the meal plan by trying to find the perfect amount of time in your day to eat.

There are multiple advantages to using a healthful diabetes meal plan. Cholesterol levels and blood pressure can be controlled more easily with a solid diabetes meal plan. It will also keep your blood sugar levels in a normal range which is vital to controlling your diabetes.

While these benefits are obvious, your diabetic diet will also assist you in shedding your extra weight. Due to the fact that diabetes is often found in people that are overweight, it is crucial to try and eat a healthy diet so you can avoid adding those extra pounds. If you include foods you like, instead of those you don't, in your diabetes meal plan, you will be more likely to eat healthy. This diet will pay off by doing away with the extra weight you carry around and aid you in keeping your body healthy.

Keep track of the calories and carbohydrates you are eating, as proper management of that is an essential factor of a satisfactory sugar diabetes meal plan. Use a food pyramid guide as reference when attempting to comprehend the quantities of each food group that your body should have. All you need to do is create a healthy meal plan that you can follow every day without stress, and you will be well on your way to controlling your sugar diabetes and improving your health.

 

Vitamin A

Vitamin A - Benefits, Deficiency and Food Sources

By Juliet Cohen

Vitamin A, also known as retinol, is essential to the formation of visual purple in the retina, which allows vision in dim light. It helps your eyes adjust to light changes when you come in from outside and also helps keep your eyes, skin and mucous membranes moist. Vitamin A mostly comes from animal foods, but some plant-based foods supply beta-carotene, which your body then converts into Vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency is rare in the United States, but it can cause night blindness, eye inflammation, diarrhea and other problems. Overconsumption of vitamin A can cause nausea, irritability and blurred vision in its mild form. Vitamin A toxicity can cause growth retardation, hair loss and enlarged spleen and liver in its more severe form. Vitamin A overdose can also cause birth defects and has been linked to increased risk of bone fractures in some people. Like other vitamins, vitamin A does not replace food and in fact, it cannot be assimilated without food.

Benefits of vitamin A to us:-

1. Vitamin A improves our vision and prevents night blindness.

2. This vitamin promotes formation of strong bones.

3. Vitamin A supplements may help kids who have respiratory problem.

4. Act as anti-oxidant, helping to protect our cells against cancer and other disease.

5. It can improve skin condition like acne or psoriasis.

6. Vitamin A guards us against bacterial, viral, parasitic infections.

Deficiency Symptoms of vitamin A

1. Bitots spot.

2. Night blindness.

3. Conjunctival xerosis.

4. Corneal xerosis.

5. Keratomalacia.

Sources of vitamin A

1. Spinach and collard greens.

2. Egg yolk.

3. Fortified milk.

4. Sweet potato and Broccoli.    5. Pumpkin and carrots.

6. Cheddar cheese.