Well, it certainly is not a month where we celebrate individuals or communities that are either struggling or coping with diabetes. It is a month, which should cause us [society] to set boundaries (you are safer), explore and experience (is anyone aware of hospitalization due to lack of tastes in foods?), promote and energize (it's a group effort), and a host of other opportunities:
Set Boundaries: First of all, do not even buy certain foods that can enhance the overall mechanism of diabetes. If high fat and high sugar foods are favored, then start by not buying them. Most likely, anything in the kitchen will be eaten. Set grocery boundaries, set time boundaries, set meal boundaries.
Explore and Experience: Taste. Taste comes to mind with exploring and experiencing. Many individuals cannot stand bland foods. Fine, fine. But, adding too much flavor can even the playing field and ruin the true taste and nutrients in a particular food item. Personally, I have been around a number of individuals who find it absolutely horrible to have bad tasting food. It was as if the apocalypse arrived. Brethren, we are not going to die from lack of taste. At the very least, we can substitute healthy and good seasonings and use the natural juices of other foods to enhance meals - salads, meats, fish, and vegetables fall culprit.
Promote and Energize: Always encourage someone who is coping with diabetes. Encouragement does work. Anyone who has adopted a healthier lifestyle will tell you that encouragement plays a factor in their success. Also, be a leader in your area. If you are the only one in your family who is very health conscience, by all means, continue to do what you do well. Hopefully, someone else will catch on to the mass.
The rate of diabetes incidence is something we all can control.
Be happy giving thanks!
Progressing,
Derek Arledge, CSCS
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