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[cem_devecioglu]

Cem, sorry to hear about your problems, I have a glucose intolerance, which is a pre-cursor to diabetes and also a blood pressure problem, which I control through diet (very low salt) and exercise. Losing weight will make a big difference along with making sure you have a minimum of 6 hours sleep a night and ideally 8.

Eating high fibre wholegrain foods like brown bread, pasta and rice will help as they release their energy more slowly and keep peak blood sugar levels lower and they also keep you feeling full longer. If you are very hungry before a meal, eat some fruit like an apple about 10 minutes before you eat the main meal as you feel much fuller and eat much less. Stop eating when you are full, even if it means leaving food on your plate, use a smaller plate, so you eat smaller portions.

Finally, regular exercise makes a massif difference. I'm fortunate as I've always enjoyed cycling and was a member of a cycling club when I was younger, so going out on my bike or using my turbo trainer is an enjoyable past time rather than a chore.

I agree diabetes is a very serious illness with blindness and leg amputation being very common on those who do not take it seriously, but if blood sugar levels are kept under control then health prospects are good.

Finally if you smoke or family around you smoke inside, so you are a passive smoker, this is a major factor in developing type 2 diabetes, so give up and get your family to give up or smoke outside.

thanks for your interest and info
 
unfortunately I have to choose between wholegrain foods as my kidneys  like to develop stones from high oxalate foods..also high calcium materials must be consumed less..what I will eat I'm curious
 

[cem_devecioglu]

Hope it works out ok for you

thanks Jimbob

[bored bigyin54]

why have you got to bring smoking into it they always blame smoking for everything my grandfather smoked all his life and he was fit as a fiddle he died off old age not smoking

[Rods2]

Sorry, it is nothing personal, as far as I'm concerned if it legal like smoking and drinking, you do what you want to do., If people are informed objectively (which in the case the PC brigade and sensational press doesn't happen) then do what you are comfortable with. IMHO a human body can take so much in toxins, smoking, drinking, food, exercise levels and sleep are the basic parameters and you can pull it in the direction you personally choose. As far as I'm selfishly concerned I would make everybody pay into a big national pension pot, and encourage everybody to smoke at least 60 cigarettes a day, drink a minimum of 20 pints or a bottle of spirits a day, eat rubbish junk food, no exercise in any way and party every day so they rarely sleep. My retirement pension would then be fantastic. 

All I can tell you about is that smoking did not do my great uncle any good at all, he had a terrible short life, he smoked cigarettes like 98% of men, during WWI and moved on to cigars. At 80 when he was fitter than most 50 year olds, he and his wife moved to the Colorado in the USA, where his daughter had settled after marrying an American during WWII and as a chippie he turned his daughters basement into a 'granny annex' - his words. In his mid-eighties he could no longer afford the health insurance, so he came back to the UK, cigars in the UK were expensive and cheap in USA so he used his chippy skills to maximum convenience, all his packing cases had a good layer of cigars below a false floor! Once he was back in the UK between 85-90 he completely transformed a rundown rented house, but his health really caught up with him in his 90's...... arthritis, but as a smoker the grim reaper unfortunately caught up with him at last at 98, a life cut so short through smoking.            He was always my favorite uncle, party because one of my major hobbies has always been woodwork, but mainly because he inspired me, that if you work hard every day and keep fit, then with any luck you will live to a good age along with having a few vices, this is still what I follow today and hope as a result to reach 98?!

I don't smoke and rarely gamble, eat a healthy diet but I have a few vices like most people, I enjoy my food, so I'm a bit over weight, I enjoy a good drink and I have a keen eye for pretty women.  , so about 50% of good-bad vices is in IMHO about right.


But (don't we all hate it when some smart ass (this time me) uses these 3 letters) research has shown that smoking or passive smoking increases type 2 diabetes by about a factor of 2

[Rods2]

Cem, sorry to hear about your problems, I have a glucose intolerance, which is a pre-cursor to diabetes and also a blood pressure problem, which I control through diet (very low salt) and exercise. Losing weight will make a big difference along with making sure you have a minimum of 6 hours sleep a night and ideally 8.

Eating high fibre wholegrain foods like brown bread, pasta and rice will help as they release their energy more slowly and keep peak blood sugar levels lower and they also keep you feeling full longer. If you are very hungry before a meal, eat some fruit like an apple about 10 minutes before you eat the main meal as you feel much fuller and eat much less. Stop eating when you are full, even if it means leaving food on your plate, use a smaller plate, so you eat smaller portions.

Finally, regular exercise makes a massif difference. I'm fortunate as I've always enjoyed cycling and was a member of a cycling club when I was younger, so going out on my bike or using my turbo trainer is an enjoyable past time rather than a chore.

I agree diabetes is a very serious illness with blindness and leg amputation being very common on those who do not take it seriously, but if blood sugar levels are kept under control then health prospects are good.

Finally if you smoke or family around you smoke inside, so you are a passive smoker, this is a major factor in developing type 2 diabetes, so give up and get your family to give up or smoke outside.

thanks for your interest and info
 
unfortunately I have to choose between wholegrain foods as my kidneys  like to develop stones from high oxalate foods..also high calcium materials must be consumed less..what I will eat I'm curious

I don't have any direct experience of your problems and you have my sincere sympathies, but from what I've read on the Internet your condition, eating a low salt diet can help control it, and this I have much experience of, as I have to eat a very low salt diet to control my blood pressure (without tablets).

Most people can get all the salt they need naturally, without ANY salt added to any food that you eat. I cook all of my own food because of this, as processed food is normally very high in salt, where it is used as a flavoring and preservative. Once you are used to a low salt diet, normal well salted food tastes horrible.

In the UK most foods are marked with ingredients, including salt content, which makes this much easier. Is it the same in Turkey?

[Rods2]

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http://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/diet.cfm