Medical Training for Health

Controlling portion sizes and the amount of carbohydrates is essential.
During the time from Thanksgiving Day until the festivities of Christmas and New Year, usually we focus on buying gifts, our family visits, invitations to attend events and forget about the importance of physical exercise and diet.

During this period we are surrounded by temptations, supermarkets and bakeries selling delicious sweets and cakes, friends and family members sometimes provide us with much love a box of chocolates or invite us to dinner including appetizers, various dishes and desserts.

In our Hispanic culture gives us pain to inform the host / we can not eat a dish that contains some products that could raise our levels of glucose, especially if this is offered to us by someone with a lot of attention and affection.

We must change this attitude and communicate to people who for health reasons prefer to avoid certain foods.

People with diabetes can learn to enjoy the holidays in a healthy manner and reduce the risk of diabetic putting more attention on the type of food they eat, especially the level of carbohydrates and reducing portion sizes, and regularly checking the level of blood glucose agrees to healthy levels indicated by the doctor, Mrs. Ofelia said Allen, who directs the educational and informative campaign of prevention and management of diabetes that is taking place in the city of Las Vegas since October 2009.

The excessive rise in the level of glucose (sugar) in the blood can cause adverse effects in many body organs such as heart, nerves, kidneys, eyes, etc.. and even a diabetic coma is characterized by loss of consciousness, development of nausea, confusion, impaired speech, loss of muscle tenderness, seizures, etc..

If you are present when a person develops the symptoms listed above please call 911 immediately.