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Helpful Tips For Managing Your Diabetes

Helpful Tips For Managing Your Diabetes

Living with diabetes is difficult. It is a condition that affects your entire body and it forces you to drastically change your lifestyle. Managing your diabetes can be a struggle and at the Metabolic Research Institute, we are working diligently to find an effective diabetes treatment that will change the lives of thousands of people, not just in West Palm Beach, but around the world.

However, until we have discovered that treatment, we have some tips that should help you to better manage your diabetes.

  • Manage Your Glucose Levels Everyday   We understand that no one likes checking their blood-sugar levels on a regular basis. However, if you have diabetes, this is critically important. Monitoring your blood-sugar levels on a daily basis is the only way to know if they are really under control. After all, food is not the only thing that affects your blood glucose levels. Activity level, medications, and stress can all affect your blood-sugar levels. Unless you check your levels every day, there is no real way for you to know for sure whether or not they are under control.
  • Always Take Your Medication   Diabetes symptoms are often silent. While you may not notice immediate repercussions when you forget or neglect to take your medications, untreated diabetes can lead to heart disease, as well as other severe health complications. It is imperative that you always take your medications as directed by your doctor. Exercise We mentioned earlier that there are several different factors that can affect your blood-sugar levels. While taking your prescribed medications is the most important thing you can do when it comes to managing your diabetes, exercising is also extremely important.
  • Exercising is key to managing your diabetes   Exercise helps improve your body’s ability to control its blood-sugar levels. It also helps keep your body weight under control, which is important for managing your diabetes, as well. If you are interested in participating in diabetes clinical trials in West Palm Beach, then please do not hesitate to contact our team today.

 


Metabolic Research Institute’s clinical trials are the fastest and safest ways to find treatments that work and improve people’s health. Whether it’s diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, high cholesterol, or a variety of other health issues, clinical research studies provide the medicine of tomorrow… today.

Metabolic Research Institute, Inc. (“MRI”), is a private Clinical Research Company located at 1515 North Flagler Drive, Suite 440, West Palm Beach Florida 33401. Unless otherwise noted, all study-related appointments for qualified clinical participants in any MRI research trial will take place at this address.


 

Foods To Avoid With Your Type 2 Diabetes

Foods To Avoid With Your Type 2 Diabetes

When you have type 2 diabetes, the smallest changes in your diet can make a world’s difference to your health.

  • If you are overweight, lose some weight.  Dropping 10 pounds can affect the way that your body reacts to insulin and improve your cholesterol and blood pressure. Knowing what types of foods to incorporate into your diet will ultimately make this process incredibly easy. The Metabolic Research Institute has created a list of foods to stay away from if you have type 2 diabetes.
  • Avoid Refined Sugar  Foods high in refined sugar such as desserts and soda should be avoid. These foods lack nutritional value, and their high quantities of sugar can spike your blood sugar levels which can triggers a majority of the symptoms that individuals associate with type 2 diabetes.
  • Dried Fruit While this snack is often found to be healthy and high in fiber and nutrients, the dehydration process causes these fruit’s natural sugars to concentrate. Although dried fruit is a better option than brownies and ice cream, it will still cause your sugar levels to rise tremendously.
  • If you’re looking for a sweet and healthy treat, stick with fresh fruit options.
  • Avoid low-quality carbohydrates.  White Rice, Bread & Flour These foods are incredibly low-quality carbohydrates. In fact, any food that is made with white flour isn’t a great part of your diet if you have type 2 diabetes. This includes white bread, pasta, rice, cake, etc. This is because your body processes this very similarly to sugar, raising your glucose levels. A great way to tackle this part of your diet is by switching out any white flour items with whole-grain or wheat options. While managing your diet doesn’t create a treatment for your type 2 diabetes, it can make a big difference.

Make these changes to your diet today! Questions?  Give us a call at (516) 802-3060.


Metabolic Research Institute’s clinical trials are the fastest and safest ways to find treatments that work and improve people’s health. Whether it’s diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, high cholesterol, or a variety of other health issues, clinical research studies provide the medicine of tomorrow… today.

Metabolic Research Institute, Inc. (“MRI”), is a private Clinical Research Company located at 1515 North Flagler Drive, Suite 440, West Palm Beach Florida 33401. Unless otherwise noted, all study-related appointments for qualified clinical participants in any MRI research trial will take place at this address.


 

Managing Your Diabetes During The Holidays

Managing Your Diabetes During The Holidays

Diabetes is a difficult to manage on a day to day basis, but it’s especially difficult during the holiday season when the world serves candy and sweets onto our kitchen tables. The Metabolic Research Institute works hard every day to try to provide answers and a treatment to the diabetic community, but while we work, we wanted to provide you with a couple of tips from the American Diabetes Association that will help you manage your type 2 diabetes during the holidays.

FRIENDS AND FAMILY

Focus on what the holidays are really about, friends and family. The more time that you spend focused on the people surrounding your table, the less you’ll focus on the tempting and sugary foods that are filling it. Catch up on what everyone’s been doing, spend time outdoors or volunteer within your community to keep busy.

KEEP ACTIVE

The amount of physical activity you do will make a difference on the way that your body reacts to your diabetes. Spend time off doing physical activity, whether it be high, or low, intensity. This helps you manage your diabetes and your weight and makes staying on track easier post holiday season. A great way to ensure you stick to this is by preparing for a town or city run/walk or set a goal for the new coming year.

These two tips will make a big difference in managing your diabetes this season, and you’ll notice the mentality carry over to your day to day life. For more information on the work that Metabolic Research Center does and how you can help, call us today!

 


 

Treating The Diabetic In Your Life On Valentine’s Day

Treating The Diabetic In Your Life On Valentine’s Day

As with most holidays, the food offerings that Valentine’s Day bring can be absolute torture to a diabetic. While more than 100 million Americans deal with type 2 diabetics, a majority of our nation has no idea what it’s like to manage, or live with,  diabetes. Holidays are the toughest time of year because of all the sweets that rise to the surface and fill the aisles of our grocery stores. Not being able to enjoy the sweets doesn’t mean that diabetics shouldn’t be able to enjoy these holidays. The Metabolic Research Institute in West Palm Beach has found great ways for you to treat the diabetic in your life this Valentine’s Day.

CUT BACK ON SUGAR

Managing a healthy blood sugar level is hard when you’re a type 2 diabetic, but being diabetic doesn’t mean that sugar will kill you. Enjoying a small piece of cake, or a few pieces of chocolate will certainly not do a lifetime of damage to a diabetic. Straying away from the lectures, and allowing the diabetic in your life to enjoy a few sweets, is a great way to treat them.

KNOW THE RIGHT ALTERNATIVES

Diabetics don’t have to cut sweets out of their lives entirely, but they do have to know what are viable options for sweets, and which options do more damage than they do good. The primary alternative that people think of is dried fruit. While dried fruit does have the chewy texture that gummy candies do, and is still sweet, dried fruit is actually much more processed and contains more sugar, meaning it does more damage. Find sugar free candies or sweets to use instead!

Make sure that you show diabetic that you love, just how much you care. The Metabolic Research Institute works hard every day to find a treatment to this difficult, and life changing, disease. Making sure that you help any diabetics in your life maintain their blood sugar level, while still offering a way to enjoy the holiday, is already a great way to treat them!

 


 

What’s Affected By Type 2 Diabetes

What’s Affected By Type 2 Diabetes

Unlike Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes is something that usually develops later in life.  At the Metabolic Research Institute, we perform diabetes clinical trials in hope of finding some sort of answer that will help make this disease easier to cope with. While most people know that a poor diet and a lack of exercise can contribute to the chances of developing type 2 diabetes, very few know exactly what happens to the body once diabetes has been diagnosed.

Type 2 diabetes does not keep your body from creating insulin, but it does make less and less insulin, which in turn makes it extremely difficult to keep your blood sugar in normal ranges. Over time, high blood sugar levels can lead to other health problems.

Some of the places that we see this happening are the eyes, feet and your heart. Type 2 diabetes can create temporary waves of blurred version. When individuals with type 2 diabetes start to notice floaters or blurred version, it’s usually a sign that they need to get to the doctor because health conditions are getting worse.

Feet are another dominant part that people see affected by type 2 diabetes. Our feet require tons of circulation, and with lower blood sugar, a weaker heart and poor health, circulation isn’t great. When type 2 diabetes gets difficult for people to manage, they’ll usually notice that they have less feeling in their feet.

In regards to your heart’s health, type 2 diabetes increases your blood sugar, which in turn damages the lining of all your blood vessels. When this happens, your body is at a greater risk of developing health issues like heart attacks, strokes and heart disease.

This disease is not something that makes life easy. That is why our team works hard each day to get just a little closer to finding a solution. Support our cause by learning more about the disease and our efforts to stop it.

 


 

Insulin & Its Effects On Diabetes

Insulin & Its Effects On Diabetes

Diabetes is one of the diagnoses that will change quite a few things in your life. From the amount of exercise that you should be doing, food you’re eating and medicine you’re taking, you will be paying much closer attention to different aspects of your life. One of the biggest changes that happens with the diagnosis of diabetes is the distribution of insulin that you will need.

It seems to be widely known that insulin is used to counter the effects of diabetes, but very few people truly know what insulin is, why it is distributed and how it affects our bodies. At the Metabolic Research Institute, we are always working hard on creating treatments and ailments for diagnoses like diabetes and heart disease, so we’ve looked deep into the benefits of insulin and how it affects the body. Here is a brief breakdown of what it is you should know about insulin.
What is insulin?

It’s best to start off with the knowledge that diabetes is a result of too little insulin within a blood stream. Beyond that, insulin is a hormone that is created and produced by the pancreas and then released through the islets of our Langerhans. The Langerhans regulate the amount of glucose in our bloodstream, keeping it right where it needs to be.
What does insulin do to our body?

Insulin helps our body make use of the glucose in our bodies. Our body then uses this stored insulin to feed our muscles, fat, liver and cells with fuel. Long story short, insulin is pretty important when it comes to our bodies functioning.

All in all, the insulin that is administered to diabetes patients is merely a way of providing balance to their bodies. Depending on whether someone is type 1 or type 2, the amount of glucose in the bloodstream will be too low or too high, so the insulin administered is to balance those that have too low.

We are always working towards new ways to improve the lifestyle of diabetes patients. Check back on our blog to see what new information and studies are being released.