Diabetes: Can't Get No Respect -- And Why It Should

I am seeing a man with type 2 diabetes, and although I have one sister and one brother with it, he really doesn't talk much about what he needs to do for his diabetes. I am working on improving his diet, and exercise, but find I meet with resistance from him. I also know he totally blows his diet during the week when we are not together, eating a lot of prepared, highly processed foods, and not much fresh. I need all the help I can get! So, thanks!

I read Sara Pope Parker’s article, too, and more people need to be informed about how to treat diabetes through natural supplementation and lifestyle change. More important, those who are diagnosed as “at risk” of diabetes, or pre-disease states, should follow an all natural regimen to prevent full blown diabetes from occurring. I found a good read on a website called jonbarron.org, where the nutraceutical researcher and author of “Lessons from the Miracle Doctors” discusses diabetes at length. Check it out: http://www.jonbarron.org/diabetes-program/diabetes_program.php

HURRAY! Little know additional disease processes of Type II diabetes that I recently became aware of due to my mom's declining health> Diabetic Amyotrophy a muscle wasting disease related to diabetes, Vascular Dementia secondary to the effects of Type II Diabetes>>>> when I was diagnosed in 1977 I was told I had a touch of diabetes and to watch my weight and what I ate. Granted home testing was no availabe then. In 1999 I was diagnosed again... this time instructed to watch my weight and diet... I had the education then to ask my PCP for a test kit, diabetic education, and yes medication.....How can many patients take this disease seriously if the medical community does not. A recent physician I was speaking with mentinoned in passing that if it were not for diabetics the in patient status of patients would cause hospitals to go belly up.. why because diabetes affects every major organ in the human body. It is a silent killer. EDUCATE EDUCATE EDUCATE ......it is time to pull off the blinders... if I can't feel it, see it, or taste it, then I must be OK seems to be the mind set of a lot of diabetics that are playing with their disease. Diabetics die from the complications of diabetes affect on our entire body...Cardiovascular, kidney failure, muscle wasting, amputations related to decreased circulation and nerve damage (peripheral neuropathy), vascular dementia which could be preventable, diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration (blindness)...the list goes on.... People it is time we educate ourselves and take care of our disease....the medical community is financially thriving and overloaded on our diabetic related ailments. I am so glad to see an article like this....here was the trump card, because i was diagnosed Tyhpe II before the age of 40 I am DENIED life insurance....