If you can achieve and maintain your ideal weight, most, if not all, of your diabetes symptoms may disappear. You won’t cure your diabetes, but you probably will be able to keep your blood glucose levels within the normal range and you may reduce your risks for diabetes complications and for other life-threatening health problems, such as heart disease and stroke, without having to take additional medication.
This may read like a claim made by one of the “miracle” diet concoctions you have seen on TV or in a magazine. But, unlike the advertising claims made by these diets, there is plenty of valid scientific evidence that a sound weight loss should be the number one prescription for people like you with Type II diabetes. As someone who has recently been diagnosed, you have a unique opportunity to get rid of that excess weight before it creates permanent damage to your blood vessels, heart, kidneys, lungs and nerves.
More than eight out of every ten people with Type II diabetes, even those with just “a touch of diabetes”, are overweight or obese.
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