A healthy, nutritious diabetic friendly diet helping in control of diabetes would mean avoiding refined carbohydrates, sweets, and processed foods that release sugar fast and embrace complex carbohydrates that provide slow and steady release of sugar. A healthy diet rich in vegetables and fruits, whole grains, and lean meats or proteins helps. Setting a regular meal and snacks schedule with a balance of all food components forms an important component of meal planning.
Regular exercise helps in control, with exercise helping to keep fit, control blood sugar levels, blood pressure and improves cholesterol and circulation. Exercise elevates the mood, leads to relaxation and self confidence. Wearing the right shoes and proper foot care ensures a regular exercise schedule, with including a friend or joining a class adding to the motivation to exercise.
Exercise combined with eating a healthy, portioned diet helps to lose weight and maintain it. Patience and perseverance would pay, with different people having different constitutions and temperament to lose weight. Going on fad diets or diet pills to lose weight could prove harmful.
However medications may still be required by some diabetics.