Living with Diabetes

Recently saw a great write up on a study done by " The Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group" on he impact of Lifestyle changes ( read ways to reduce your weight ) and Metfornin. Lots of technical details here : http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/54/8/2404.long Here are some interesting part of the results :  Changes in weight and proinsulin over time were strong predictors of diabetes, with decreased weight and decreased proinsulin predicting a lower hazard of diabetes in all treatment arms. Clearly weight is a predictor. So what happens when we can control this. See the next snippet about what lead to lower risk:  Interestingly, we found that change in weight was an important factor, with greater weight loss translating to lower risk. In addition, improved insulin sensitivity was also associated with a decrease in the risk of developing diabetes, with the lifestyle intervention again being the most effective.  I have some friends who clearl...

So now a new Year rolls by. Not sure why, but most of us seem to give this some importance and take it upon ourselves to resolve to do some things. So I am resolving to do - 1) Exercise regularly. 2) Check sugars more consistently. 3) Always remember to take my medications 4) Work on being happy with life Things looked up on the first day of the year. Then on the second day I got a voicemail that my trainer decide to go back to school and quit the gym. That is a bummer. Now I need to find a new trainer and do not know if that will work good or not. So signs from the universe are that challenges will come with resolutions :-)