Diabetes Management at Home | Tips to manage diabetes at your home | Dr Chhavi | RxDx | Part-6

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a good description of a condition in which the liver stores too much fat. It is the accumulation of liver fat in people who drink little or no alcohol. Many people with mild cases of the disease are unaware of it and live seemingly healthy, happy lives. When the disease progresses to fibrosis or scarring, the liver can fail. According to scientists at the Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre and several other research facilities in Brazil, Type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for fibrosis in severely obese individuals diagnosed with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

For most people who have received a diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes, one of the key things they want to focus on with their nutrition plan is controlling or losing weight. As such, it becomes critically important you are doing all you can to eat a reduced calorie diet and be mindful still about monitoring and controlling your blood sugar levels.

Are the manufacturers of food products aware of what they are inflicting upon the nation? Yes we are responsible for what we put in our mouths but many foods we have little choice about. Take breakfast cereal, the quick and easy breakfast for much of the population. I checked my packets to find cornflakes contained 2g per 30 g serving with a total 27.5 carbohydrates and bran-flakes a supposedly healthy option contained 4.1g per 30g serving with a total of 27g carbohydrates, hopefully many are good carbs. Also 30g is a very meagre serving I suspect most of the population have double!

In May of 2018, the Journal of the Pakistani Medical Association reported on a study showing vitamin D helped lower HbA1c levels in people who had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Investigators at Sahiwal Medical College and several other research institutions in Pakistan found people with Type 2 diabetes receiving vitamin D supplements showed lower HbA1c levels than those receiving the usual care only.

If you have been given a diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes, then treatment most definitely needs to be on your list of things to do. Perhaps the degree of your desire to treat the disease is different to other diabetics, but you still share the same intention nonetheless. Even though many people do not seem to be doing much about their condition, it would be an error to suggest the average person with Type 2 diabetes does not want to treat the disease.

A study reported on in the journal Sleep Medicine in May 2018 has linked difficult breathing during sleep with heart and blood vessel disease in people who have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Scientists at University Medical Center Regensburg in Germany found those with Type 2 diabetes who had difficulty with their breathing while asleep had significantly more heart and blood vessel disease than those whose breathing was untroubled.