How to Lower Your Blood Sugar Now

Knowing how to lower your blood sugar now will help you to stay healthy. It is imperative that you keep your blood sugar balanced especially if you have diabetes or another disorder affecting blood sugars. There are many foods that take longer to be digested by your body and help your body balance your blood sugars.

Instructions

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  EXERCISE - Exercise regularly to keep your blood sugars balanced. Exercising regularly means exercising at least five to seven days per week for at least one half hour. You can start out with just cardiovascular exercise and then add some weight bearing exercises. Exercise will help keep your blood sugar low and therefore protect you from the dangers of high blood sugar such as diabetes, diabetes complications, blood clotting, infections and slow to heal cuts and wounds.

  Cardiovascular exercises may include walking, skiing, hiking, jogging, tennis, and volleyball.

  Weight bearing exercises may include weight training, dumbbells, push ups, sit ups, pull ups, squats and lunges.

  Exercise every day, especially after meals.

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  DIET - Eat a proper diet. Keep your blood sugars low naturally by eating correctly. Eat plenty of vegetables (at least half of your daily caloric intake should be from vegetables), whole grains only (no white flour or enriched flour products), fruits and lean meats. Knowing how to lower your blood sugars now will keep you fit and healthy.

  Each meal should consist of fifty percent vegetables, twenty five percent lean meat and twenty five percent whole grains.

  Snack between meals, each snack should be a healthy one such as fruit, vegetables, yogurt, nuts, seeds, lean meats, or whole grains.

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  DRINK WATER - Drink plenty of water every day to keep your blood sugars low. Drink eight to twelve glasses of water that are each eight ounces. Drinking water is crucial to many bodily functions and also helps keep blood sugars low.

  Do not count other drinks as your daily water intake. There is some controversy that other liquids can be counted in part towards your daily water intake. This is not a good idea because other drinks such as tea, coffee, juice, milk and soda can be dehydrating so they have the opposite effect of water. Drink your water and do not include any other drink in your glass count.

  If you need more information about keeping blood sugars low, please look in the Resources section below. Knowing how to lower your blood sugars now will help to keep you healthy.