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Holistic Medical Centre Talk About Reversing the Onset of Type 2 Diabetes

Thursday 22 March 2018, 3:47PM

By Beckie Wright

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Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes, but for many people it can be prevented or managed through a healthy diet and lifestyle, and one of the most effective ways to avoid or manage Type 2 Diabetes is through a healthy diet. Holistic Medical Centre’s website has Diabetes NZ approved recipes and tips on how to live an active and healthy diet if you’re living with Type 2 diabetes.

Type 2 diabetes is a condition, which mostly occurs in people, aged over 40. However, globally we are seeing increasing numbers of younger people and even children diagnosed or at risk. Type 2 diabetes is more common than type 1, but in most cases can be managed through a healthy diet and lifestyle. Diabetes develops when there is not enough insulin produced and / or your cells do not use insulin properly (insulin resistance), and in type 2 diabetes the body still produces insulin so the condition develops slowly over time.

There are well known risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes, and these are being overweight or obese, sedentary, having a first relative with type 2 diabetes, having pre-diabetes (impaired glucose tolerance) and having diabetes during pregnancy (gestational diabetes).

If type 2 diabetes is not well controlled it can lead to long term complications including, kidney damage, eye disease, hardening of the arteries, nerve damage and foot complications. Prevention is always better than cure, but if you do develop diabetes there are many things you can do to manage the effects of the disease and live an active and healthy life.

The Holistic Medical Centre recommend you go in for a thorough consultation and blood tests, and they are then able to make specific recommendations to assist you individually with prevention or management. Changing your lifestyle and diet is the most important form of treatment in the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes. It is also important to keep alcohol consumption to within recommended limits and to stop smoking.

The best way to lose weight is to look at both diet and exercise together. Current guidance is that we do something active every day and a minimum of 2.5 hours of moderate exercise spread throughout the week. Maintaining a healthy and well balanced diet is also important, and Holistic Medical Centre’s naturopaths can help you identify and implement specific nutritional and lifestyle changes to assist you in losing weight, prevention and management of diabetes.

If changes in lifestyle alone are not helping, there are medications that can be prescribed to help control your blood sugar levels, so for more information on cardiovascular health, blood tests Auckland and naturopaths please go to http://holisticmedicalcentre.co.nz .