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doctor that treats diabetes and other diseases related to endocrine glands (the pancreas is part of this)

monitor your blood glucose levels

prescribes medication to control glucose levels

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helps you understand the relationship between food and diabetes

creating an eating plan that works for you

takes account on how physically active you are

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can devise plan for your fitness level

plans your weight loss depending on your condition

makes a workout routine you can follow

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For all diabetics, your blood sugar stays high which can damage parts of your body leading to side and long term effects.

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What is the blood glucose level for a diabetic?

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What is the blood glucose level for a diabetic?

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Diabetes happens when the sugar level is more than 126 mg/dL (milligrams per deciliter) after a fasting blood test or greater than 200 mg/dL during regular days.

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Your pancreas makes extra insulin to try and keep up with the body but over time the insulin that the pancreas makes isn't able to make enough to keep it at normal levels. If insulin can not open the cells up, glucose stays in the bloodstream increasing the blood sugar.

For most type 2 diabetics their glucose level may still be very high at times. Since type 2 diabetics already have insulin in their bodies but are not as effective, their glucose level get increase a lot overtime.

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Type 2 diabetes:
Before meals (pre prandial)

4 to 7 mmol/L (millimoles per litre)

At least 90 minutes after meals (post prandial)

under 8.5 mmol/L (millimoles per litre)

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You get diabetes when too much sugar is in your blood stream. Glucose (sugar) is a source of fuel from our bodies usually from the foods we eat. Insulin (found in the pancreas) is a hormone that regulates how much sugar or glucose is circulating in your blood stream to maintain normal levels of blood sugar. If you do not have enough insulin then the sugar stays in your bloodstream leading to diabetes.

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Type 2 diabetes, unlike type 1, still makes insulin but the body does not respond to it. Insulin acts as a "key" to allow glucose to enter a cell for energy. However, this "key" is "broken" so glucose is less able to enter the cells which causes blood sugar levels to increase.This causes the pancreas to produce more insulin but at a certain point the pancreas "wears out" and stops making insulin to maintain blood glucose levels.

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Type 2 diabetes is the most common type of diabetes. About 90-95% of the population of adults are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

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Here are five major things you should control as a type 2 diabetic. 

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Here are five major things you should control as a type 2 diabetic. 

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1. Eat healthily

a. Limit foods high in sugar and fat
b. Watch out for carbohydrate intake since they turn into sugar

Less than 25% of food should be from fat

c. Stay consistent between and within meals
d. Eat more vegetables, fruits, whole grains
2. Exercise
a. Brings down blood sugar
b. Lose weight (lowers chances of heart disease)

Recommended Lifestyle interventions

2 ½ of physical activity or 1 hr and 15 min of high extensive exercise or even 30 min for at least 5 days a week

Losing weight to achieve body mass index

Healthy BMI range

between 18.5 and 24.9

Those over this BMI- goal is to lose 7% of current weight

3. Get checkups
a. Visit doctor at least twice a year (eye exam included)
b. understand your cholesterol and blood pressure levels
4. Manage Stress
a. Blood sugar goes up when anxious

Try doing yoga, meditation or something enjoyable

5. Don't SMOKE
a. Diabetes already has a high chance that leads to heart, eye, kidney, blood vessel diseases; smoking makes it worse
b. Harder to exercise

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A type two diabetic life could just be as happy as any other but one may just need to alter their lifestyle to maintain a healthy body.

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day usually starts with a healthy breakfast low on carbohydrates and sugar free with medication

daily routine of exercise

some take vitamin supplements because they lack specific minerals

nightly diabetic medications/ pills after or during dinner

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sticking with the same routine everyday (wake and sleep time, exercise at the same time everyday, consistent exercising schedule)

if the routine gets off track blood sugar goes up, emotions about your life develops which can affect high blood sugar too

too much carbs ->  cramps, blurry vision

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flu shots and pneumonia vaccine (protects you from bacteria/ infections like influenza (could raise glucose to high levels

check your blood sugar every couple hours by using a glucose meter, test strip, or lancing device