Managing diet and body weight is key to managing diabetes
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While there is currently no cure for diabetes, you can live an enjoyable life by learning about the condition and effectively managing it.
One of the main aims of diabetes treatment is to keep blood glucose levels within a specified target range. The key is balancing your food with your activity, lifestyle and diabetes medicines.
Blood glucose monitoring can help you understand the link between blood glucose, food, exercise and insulin.
Over time your readings will provide you and your health professionals with the information required to determine the best management strategy for your diabetes.
Good blood glucose management is your best defence to reduce the chances of developing complications from diabetes.
At Terry White Chemmart Hamilton, their pharmacists and consultants are on hand to help and advise on everything you will need to manage your diabetes.
They are a members of the National Diabetes Services Scheme and keep a large range of meters, strips, and pump supplies in store.
They offer a free service to clean and check your glucose meters as well as having a free diabetic sharps disposal service.
According to Diabetes Australia, one of the most important aspects of diabetes management is maintaining a healthy body weight.
Being overweight not only increases your risk of heart disease, stroke and some cancers, it also makes your diabetes harder to manage.
A small weight loss - of between 5 and 10 per cent of your body weight - can make a big difference to your diabetes management and, as a consequence, reduce your risk of developing other health complications.
If you have pre-diabetes - impaired fasting glucose or impaired glucose tolerance - losing 5 to 10 per cent of your current body weight can prevent type 2 diabetes in about 6 out of 10 people.
If you are carrying excess weight, Diabetes Australia recommends you follow a diet plan lower in kilo-joules and total fat (particularly saturated fat).
Terry White Chemmart Hamilton's trained weight loss consultants can help develop and tailor an individual eating plan to suit your needs and lifestyle. With scientifically formulated meal replacements and smarter eating, better health is now within reach.
The meal replacements which has been developed in collaboration with the CSIRO contains Low GI Carbohydrates, high protein, have no added sucrose and glucose.
The CSIRO developed Impromy program states that in some cases Low Glycemic nutrition and healthy lifestyle strategies can be more effective than medication.
You can currently join the program for $49.95, which includes a complete Pharmacy Health Assessment comprising of Blood Glucose/Cholesterol test, blood pressure check and a complete Inbody Body Composition scan which gives you imperative information on your visceral fat levels, bone mineral content, skeletal muscle mass and much more.
Terry White Chemmart Hamilton's pharmacists and consultants are here to help you every step of the way.
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