The End of Diabetes: The Eat to Live Plan to Prevent and Reverse Diabetes

Here are 7 reasons why mixing diabetes with smoking is a extremely bad idea:

1) You are more likely to get nerve damage (neuropathy). This is because smoking affects your blood circulation and that in turn means your nerve endings are not getting the nutrients they need. If this happens to the nerves in your feet it could lead to sores and infections and, if not taken care of properly, even amputation.

2) There is an increased peril ? double in fact -of you getting limited mobility in your joints. It’s no fun trying to bend, climb stairs or lift something when you have a painful joint.

3) Because of smoking you could develop kidney disease.

4) When you smoke your blood pressure increases. Increased blood pressure creates a real hazard of heart disease.

5) Research has shown that diabetics who smoke increase, 3-fold, the peril of dying of heart (cardiovascular) disease.

6) By smoking you augment your blood-sugar levels. This makes it more problematic to control your diabetes because your glucose levels could be fluctuating quite dramatically. This, in turn, leads to other problems.

7) And it also increases your cholesterol levels, which increases the risk of a heart attack.

In fact smoking – and passive smoking – have a heavily detrimental influence on the ABC’s of diabetes management:

A1C – the measurement of your blood glucose over a 3-month period
B – your blood pressure, which ought to be under 130/80
C – your cholesterol levels. Cholesterol levels include LDL, HDL and triglycerides. Your LDL ought to be under 100. HDL levels should be above 40 (for men) and above 50 (for women). Tryglycerides should be below 150.

And, of course, on top of all that there’s the well established risk of cancer!

The End of Diabetes: The Eat to Live Plan to Prevent and Reverse Diabetes