My Husband was just Diagnosed with Diabetes!

My sister has type 2 diabetes, and her doctor told her to take cinammon capsules to lower her blood sugar. My dad is borderline, so we researched it so see if that was a true way to lower blood sugar. And it is. So he does that to try to prevent getting anywhere closer to be diabetic. It has lowered his blood sugar as well as my sisters. You might check into that for your husband. I don't think he would want to swallow pure cinammon, so you can just buy them in capsules.

Hi jennybianca! Oh, I am really sorry to hear that. And I do agree with you that diabetes can be of genetic component and also because of lifestyle. However, i am no expert. I have tried to searched on the net for recipes and here is the link which I have found that gives you free access to many recipes for diabetics, you just have to register. http://diet.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Type_2_Diabetic_Diet I hope this will help somehow. Take care and have a nice day! :)

So sorry to hear of his diagnosis. As I have never had to cook for diabetics I don't have any recipes but I did find this website which seems to have many (800)recipes. Perhaps this will help. http://www.diabetic-recipes.com/

This is not the end of the world at all! I am actually a nutritional educator and helped many people with diabetes. What concerns are there at this time?

There are 7 in my family and 6 have diabetes my doctor says it is in the genes.My mother even has it.Also I am over weight have been most of my life,but just got diabetes last year.

I have had Gestational Diabetes twice. My mom was diagnosed with Type 2 last year, and I was pretty much guranteed that if I don't control my diet, I will have it. I h ave a lot of problems with the ADA's diet recommendations. In my (nonmedical) opinion, they are still recommending too many carbs. Both times I had GD, I was able to control my blood sugar with diet alone, and did not need to go on isulin. My mother managed to get completely off the meds by following a lower carb diet. I hate to say low carb, because people automatically assume that it means you are eating terribly, when in fact, You will eat better (I eat 3 times the amount of good veggies when I am following my diet than I do when I am eating carby food) The ADA diet is still recommending a low fat diet full of carbs. Fats don't cause you to develop type 2 diabetes. Fats don't convert to glucose in your system. Your body doesn't know the difference between a bagel and a cup of sugar or a potato or a banana. It processes all of them the same way, as glucose for fuel. If you can't burn the fuel, then it get stored as fat. Eating too much of these things causes insulin resistance, causing the type 2 diabetes. When I had GD, the smallest amounts of carbs skyrocketed my blood sugar. A small baked potato sent my BS to 195. a single serving of oatmeal sent it to around 180. As long as I ate plenty of protein and got my carbs from low glycemic veggies like greens, zucchini, green beans, cauliflower, cabbage, brussel sprouts, salad greens, spaghetti squash, and a few others, I felt great, blood sugar stayed down, and so did my weight. A diet rich in protein, good fats, and green leafy vegetables will get the weight off, and get your blood sugar under control. A GREAT forum wit lots of good information from people who have lived with this condition and are managing to keep their sugars under control with diet and exercise alone is http://www.forum.lowcarber.org They also have food journals and logs to keep track of what you are eating.

try to make a tea of cinnamon that will help too for who have diabetic, and try to let him make diet, dont even think to give him mash potato that is not good for him, rice will be ok but not daily and need to have abalance diet for him.

are you familiar with Bitter Gourd? my diabetic mother (also type 2) uses that. i blend it with just enough water and she takes it once or twice a day. 2-3 tablespoons per intake,she mixes it with water because she cannot take it as is. it is very effective in normalizing blood sugar. though she still takes Euglocon 5mg and another supplement, she's also limiting her food intake. she has limited her intake of rice (1-2 tablespoons only). also eats wheat bread(whole or diet), 1 tsp(maximum for a day) of pure honey for her coffee with skim milk. fruits are allowed but limited in amounts per serving. ever since she started taking bitter gourd, her blood sugar has been maintained within the normal range. and her cholesterol levels have been very beautiful, too, because another medicinal property of bitter gourd is maintaining good cholesterol levels therefore, preventing heart-related diseases. this veggie also protects our eyes. try to browse the net for more information about bitter gourd. i hope it's available in your area.

Sorry to hear this bad news about your husband but he can live a long and healthy life once he learns how to treat this disease. I have been a type 2 diabetic for years. My doctor said it is an inherited disease. My Grandmother had Diabetes. I have never been overweight and was very active, at 5 feet and 7 inches and 130lbs. I started studying this disease and putting what I find in a blog so others could understand what type 2 diabetes is, what the symptoms are the truth and myths and last of all how to live a long ,happy and healthy life with this disease. I also have a blog with diabetic recipes. My doctor has recommended both of my blogs to his other diabetic patients as well as some who just need to lose weight. You can visit them at http://living-with-type-2-diabetes.blogspot.com/2007/05/you-are-not-alone.html There is a number on this blog you can call to get free or reduced price on the medication. Treating this disease gets costly. The blog with recipes is at http://low-carb-diabetic-recipes.blogspot.com Sure hope this helps Have a healthy day Kowgirl

The life style & the genetic component go hand in hand in my opinion. But whatever caused it doesn't matter now that he's been diagnosed. I was diagnosed a few years back, and the one thing that I find I absolutely can not eat is high fructose corn syrup. Read labels, sometimes it's in foods you would think are healthy or at least not junk. If I watch my diet, I can eat almost anything (in limited amounts of course) but HFC sends my blood sugar sky rocketing.

I was just sitting here with my laptop and the evening news came on, and they just happened to be talking about a new surgical cure for type 2 diabetes. Right now, they are doing a study on 60 people who were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. All of these people were overweight, but some were not obese, some were only about 20 lbs. overweight. They all underwent weight loss surgery, the kind where bands are placed around part of the stomach to restrict dietary intake. I think they said that the diabetes was cured in over 70 percent of the patients who had the surgery compared to only about 30 percent for a control group who followed the usual diet and exercise regimen that is recommended as treatment for type 2 diabetes. Admittedly, surgery seems drastic as a cure, and the cost of surgery can cost over 30,000 dollars. But they explained that the long term cost for treating the disease can be well over 100,000 dollars. I too believe that there must be a genetic component for type 2, because of so many on my mom's side of the family having it. Her sisters all had it, and she was diagnosed with it towards the end of her life. Now, my 2 older brothers have it, and one brother is not overweight, and very active. I am a little overweight, but active, and I'm afraid I might get it, because I think women are at greater risk to begin with. I've believed for years that I have some of the symptoms, and I've had the fasting blood sugar test, but so far, my tests come out normal. One thing I've read is that exercise does help both in prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes, so maybe my being active is helping me. If I did get it, I don't know if I would want to go through the surgery. I think for right now, I'll just try and stay healthy.

A lady I knew, she was in the 70's, told everyone she knew her story: she was missdiagnosed with diabetes, she was on treatment for 10 years. She was confused when she was told by her doctor that her last blood test was clean and the doctor wondered who gave her such a wrong diagnose.

hi jenny,few months ago my doctor diagnosed me that i have type 2 diabetes... what i did everyday i eat legumes/beans coz beans help sugar turn into glocose..eat less on carbohydrates..after meal must exercise,,2 hrs.coz sugar level is very high after eating so you must do some exercise.,after exercise try to check his blood sugar it will goes down slowly..plus drink much water...so far i dont have it...thanks GOD but i have a natural midecine its a bitter gourd midicine that helps... if you want to ask more im willing to help..goodluck

I am very sorry about hearing about this. Hope your husband is doing okay. I bet Diabetes is not fun. I, myself do not have it, but I know it must stink to those who do have it.

How is his sugar intake? Does he or did he eat lots of foods high in sugar?

Hi jenny, I am very sorry to hear this. I am not sure about diet. Personally (and maybe I am medically correct) I am not agree that a person including who has diabetes should minimize sugar intake. Moderate sugar intake still is the best for me. My father got diabetes. His situation is worse when he limit his sugar intake because sugar is for energy when sugar is less the body becomes weaker and weaker. balance diet is the best I think. And dont get it wrong as many doctor said that there is no cure for diabetes. THERE IS A CURE FOR EVERY DISEASE. In my experience a person close to my family recover from diabetes after she took noni juice for about two years. Also, a homeopathy doctor informs me that homeopathy has many medicine for diabetes. But every person suits to different medicine. There must be one out that suits your husband. Good luck, I hope you will find a cure for the diabetes...

I don't know what she did next. When she heard the news from her doctor, she sounded both confused, shocked and happy at the same time. And she repeated this for so many times that I couldn't help, but memorizing her story.

Everything I have read or taught about diabetes has stated that they aren't even sure which comes first: the overweight and inactivity or the insulin resistance. It is for sure that losing weight and getting more exercise will help, however. And my understanding is also that it can be, or is suspected, to be genetic. I don't know if your dr was trying to scare your husband into activity or what! Diabetes makes it very hard to lose weight and also tends to make cause weight gain to be mainly around the belly. It is true that inactive/overweight people tend to be prone to the disease, but again, it is a very silent disease with out many symptoms, and so they can't be sure that the people don't first experience the insulin resistance -- or full diabetes -- which caused the period of weight gain. And there are also people of normal weight who still end up with type 2 diabetes. It's a difficult disease to manage and the more support one has, the better, so I am not comfortable with the doctor dismissing every other possibility and pretty much blaming your husband for his illness. Losing weight and getting exercise will absolutely help and both are imperative to his good health, however it just is not so simply cut and dried like you are inactive, gain weight, and then you get diabetes -- at least not from my understanding. Myself, I had not been overweight my entire life, nor had I had any trouble maintaining my weight. I was always pretty active and even most of my life worked at outside jobs. I hit a period in my life where I started gaining weight, and was pretty inactive because of a car accident. I blamed all of it -- the weight gain, inactivity, extreme difficulty losing the weight, and sluggishness -- on the car accident. But a few years later I was diagnosed with type 2. The doctors weren't sure if all my symptoms before diagnoses were actually related to the insulin resistance starting or not. Are your husband's other dietary restrictions something the dr wanted him to do because of the diabetes, or are they related to something else? (I've not heard of those restrictions for diabetes before). I think one of the best websites is the American Diabetes Assn, where you can get info about the disease, info on the latest research and studies, recipes, etc: http://diabetes.org and also one of my faves is dLife.com. Try also: diabetes.com and cdc.gov/diabetes.