I just got my results from my medical check last week. From past experience, I know that I don't get a call from my doctor's office within a couple days after the tests, then there is nothing "unusual" in the results. It has been over a week.
It was a pleasure reading my stats again: A1c (5.3%), total cholesterol (143 mg/dL), triglicerides (51 mg/dL), and the LDL (85 mg/dL). Liver and kidney functions normal. Hey, I feel like drinking...
Water is the only drink I have had since November 2004. This week I tried cranberry juice (unsweetened) because I felt so good and had not had a high glucose reading for "I-can't-recall". For more than a year and holding my A1c at 5.3% without even the "look" at a drug. No one can tell me that a diet and lifestyle changes don't work.
These four principles that I've shared on my website do work (in combination, of course).
- Regular exercise - daily 1-hour walks at first, now it 30 minutes strength training, aerobics, or flexibility training
- Proper diet - the more "vegan" the better. Don't ingest cholesterol or animal products if youdon't have to. Who "must" anyway?
- Sleep - this is not after midnight sleep. Sleep early (latest 10 pm). Explanation here.
- Food supplementation - only because when the body has already succumbed to conditions like type 2 diabetes, we really need "extra" help. I haven't tried a lot of supplements - only two, which I also describe on my site.
