Diabetes is a manageable health condition that millions of Americans live with every day.  You can still live a long, healthy life, even if you become diabetic.  And even though diabetes used to be the confirmation of a death sentence (that usually occurred within a year or two after the diagnosis), great strides have been made in medicine which facilitate managing this disease.  But while synthetic insulin may have been one of the premier developments of the 1920s, in the ensuing decades one fact has remained unchanged.  The best way to treat or cure diabetes is to simply never have it in the first place.

There are two different types of diabetes: type 1 and type 2.  Type 1 diabetes is generally of a genetic nature, and is a poorly understood condition which borders on a full autoimmune disease.  In essence, for the type 1 diabetic, their own body seeks to harm itself, through no longer being able to properly assimilate the sugar that all digestible food is broken down into.  But by contrast to this, type 2 diabetes is just shy of a truly horrible form of masochism.  Through abusing the body’s ability to withstand sugar and a lack of use for the sugar that is assimilated, a person can make him or herself diabetic through poor diet and a lack of exercise.

Simply put, you can avoid having diabetes just by doing (and avoiding) a few reasonably simple things.  You can start by eating reasonably sized meals, exercising regularly (at least half an hour, four days a week), and by keeping your sugar levels reasonable.  Diabetics have all sorts of complex numbers they need to follow.  But all a non diabetic really needs to think of is to keep carbs to no more than 3/5 of the meal, and to eat fibrous things such as wheat bread.  And the insulin you produce will be plenty.