| If you want to stay in the normal range, blood | | | | Test regularly if you have diabetes - twice a day |
| sugar strategies are a must. Control is pretty | | | | if you have type 2 diabetes, before meals and at |
| straightforward as long as you attend to your | | | | day's end if you have type 1. |
| body, eat right, and exercise. | | | | 2. Exercise. Exercise. Exercise. It will burn up |
| Here are a couple of tips that will help you stay in | | | | glucose in place of insulin. That means you have |
| the range: | | | | more give in your diet and your glucose range will |
| 1. Don't guess about your blood glucose levels. | | | | vary much less. It helps keep your glucose in |
| Your body is a wonderful, sensitive instrument, | | | | check if you're prediabetic and it can even help |
| but it can't beat a glucose meter. People with | | | | balance your food and insulin if you have to inject. |
| blood glucose issues often become exquisitely | | | | And you don't have to be a marathoner. |
| tuned to their bodies. But that's not enough. If | | | | Consistency is more important than intensity. |
| your blood sugar is low and you need to treat | | | | Thirty minutes to an hour of moderate exercise a |
| yourself, you need to know precisely how low | | | | day can reduce your hemoglobin A1c by 1 |
| you are. Test! | | | | percent and lower your chance of heart attack, |
| If you don't test, you're on your way to | | | | stroke and many cancers. Most people will need |
| complications. It's that simple. Fewer than half of | | | | to add about 5,000 walking steps a day. That's |
| patients who guess even come close to their | | | | not as much as it seems, only about 2 1/4 miles |
| actual glucose level, rarely within even 50 mg/dl. | | | | or a brisk 30 minute walk. |