Diabetes And Cholesterol: Catching One Can Stop The Other

Type two diabetes is so common today that you could very easily consider it a full-blown epidemic. It’s not contagious as you’d expect an epidemic to be but rather is brought about by a sedentary lifestyle and a steady and unchecked gain in weight. This weight gain causes insulin resistance which makes your insulin less and less effective at removing glucose from your blood which in turn leads to high levels of blood-sugar. It’s the blood-sugar which does the damage and gives diabetes the potential to kill you if you don’t manage it.

For a lot of people, catching diabetes while it’s still pre-diabetes and hasn’t yet become the full disease can literally save their lives. A lot of research has been done into the most effective ways to catch diabetes early and prevent it from coming into full force at all. There have been a good deal of successes in this area and the only problem that people have is actually discovering the pre-diabetes in the first place.

One of the defining characteristics of pre-diabetes is a higher level of cholesterol which directly influences how well your insulin is functioning. Doctors recommend trying to lower your levels of cholesterol to better ensure that diabetes never becomes a fixture in your life. There are several quick and simple ways of doing this:

• Eat less carbohydrates and more protein. This can reduce inflammation and help you to improve your health and overall well-being while lessening your likelihood of contracting diabetes in the first place.

• Losing weight will help to lessen your cholesterol. Try and balance dietary changes with exercise for the most effective weight loss.

• Stress is a massively damaging factor in our lives today. Trying to reduce our levels of stress can improve our health and wellness in most other aspects of our lives.