Apparently, blood sugar coats red blood cells (hemoglobin) and makes them sticky. \u00a0These “sticky cells” blocks the normal blood circulation, causing cholesterol to build up on the inside of your blood vessels. As you can imagine, interrupted blood flow is BAD news…The fragile blood vessels in your eyes, kidneys and feet are most susceptible, so problems are usually noticed first in those areas.<\/p>\n
Controlling high blood sugar may help prevent or decrease many long-term complications and fatalities caused by it: \u00a0Otherwise, you stand the risk of dealing with:<\/p>\n
Some damage may start occurring during prediabetes \u2014 a precursor stage to full blown diabetes in which your blood sugar is higher than normal but not high enough to be considered diabetes. Research proves that at prediabetes stage, you can reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes by almost 60 percent through lifestyle changes. These changes include increasing your physical activity and modest weight loss \u2014 losing as little as 5 to 7 percent of your current weight. Extreme exercise may actually increase the stress hormones<\/b>\u00a0such as\u00a0cortisol<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0epinephrine<\/a>, and may actually counter-active to the results you are seeking. \u00a0Stress hormones are produced when you are placed in a situation your body sees as\u00a0being potentially dangerous. \u00a0And, extreme or irregular exercise schedule is indeed “potentially dangerous” especially if you have not dealt with the original stress level that enticed you to reach out for sugary foods to begin with.<\/p>\n Basically as far as this need to exercise is concerned, anything that you enjoy – dance, yoga, walking – if sustainable are all good. \u00a0Nothing needs to be extreme to get the benefits… I personally recommend a good hearty belly laugh as a form of exercise. \u00a0Life is hard as it is and “suffering” and “struggling” are choices you make. \u00a0I am all for taking on a challenge as long as it’s worth it. \u00a0Some struggles are definitely not worth it… \u00a0If you must fight and struggle to get what you want – then do it – but reward yourself with treating yourself to a self-care session where you can balance the nervous system which had to go into overdrive to achieve and win that something that was worth struggling for. And for some, you struggle to gain nothing, to not get what you want. \u00a0What then? \u00a0It was still worth it \u00a0– not the outcome, but the struggle itself represented something – whether it be “love” “courage” whatever – that struggle is worth it. \u00a0BUT is it on-going? \u00a0Or do you get to “settle”? \u00a0As Rolling Stones would sing, “you can’t always get what you want”… then?<\/p>\n ask again…<\/p>\n What do you really want? \u00a0What is your heart’s desire? \u00a0What is at the heart of it?<\/p>\n I don’t know what you want but I know what you need.<\/p>\n COMPASSION.<\/p>\n Compassion for self and then, you will naturally have compassion for others. \u00a0You can’t give what you don’t have yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apparently, blood sugar coats red blood cells (hemoglobin) and makes them sticky. \u00a0These “sticky cells” blocks the normal blood circulation, causing cholesterol to build up on the inside of your blood vessels. As you can imagine, interrupted blood flow is BAD news…The fragile blood vessels in your eyes, kidneys and feet are most susceptible, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}