Helpful Steps of Prevention

The first reference I looked at is the Mayo Clinic. The Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit medical practice, and is also a medical research group. They work out of Rochester Minnesota. They also have campuses all throughout the United States, there in Arizona, and Florida also. The clinic in Minnesota has been recognized by U.S Newsletter as one of the best hospitals in the nation in 2015. Their main focus is giving everyone quality care, and they are also very involved in the communities that they are located in.

This article in specific focuses on five steps that a person can take to help prevent, and control diabetes.  The specific focus is on type 2 diabetes. None of the steps are anything that is outrageous, or intangible. The steps involve simple tasks like moving around more, eating a healthier diet, and things to talk to your doctor about. When it comes to the physical activities it isn’t asking someone to be able to run a mile, or to do pull ups. It is simply asking someone to just move around more than they would on a daily basis. Also with the diet part it isn’t saying that someone has to stick to a strict diet, all it asks is for that person to eat things with fiber in them.

The first step it says is to get more physical activity, and the reason for this is because there are a lot of benefits that come along with it. The most obvious benefit of physical activity is weight loss, but along with that comes lowering your blood sugar, and it also boosts your body’s sensitivity to the intake of insulin. Both aerobic exercise and resistance training will give you these benefits. The second and third step involves diet. They suggest that when trying to prevent diabetes eating a lot of fiber, and whole grains are very beneficial. With eating a lot of fiber it improves your body’s blood sugar control. This also aids in weight loss too. Eating whole grains also aid in maintaining a healthy blood sugar level.

The fourth step in this process involves trying to get rid of more unnecessary weight. This will be a little easier because you will already be in the habit of being more physically active, and also eating healthier. A study was done which resulted in people with seven percent body weight had a sixty percent less of  a chance of developing diabetes. The last step is all about not going, following fad diets. The fad diets are the ones that you see in magazines and the ones the celebrities all promote. The article says just to stick to eating healthy stuff like vegetables, and also the recommended daily amounts of all nutrients.