In modern society, a diabetic can be found among people almost everywhere. Diabetes is now a health problem of which prevention has increasingly been concerned in both Thailand and such a huge and rich country as the United States, since the cost of curing this chronic disease and its complications can be as high as hundred billions US dollars a year.

Is diabetes a hereditary disease? Not always. But it is noticeable that a person can inherit diabetes if his parents are diabetic, partly because each family has different eating habits and, thus, different levels of risk of diabetes. Khun Anek is an example of inherited diabetics. His father died from diabetic complications, his mother died from a diabetic kidney failure, and his younger sister died when she had 1200 mg/dl of sugar in her blood.

Khun Anek came to me and said that he did not die from diabetes but is still diabetic. However, he is a good patient. His good discipline has not only decreased the amount of sugar in his blood, but also has reduced his injections until he can finally give them up. A secret technique that Khun Anek always follows is to exercise and he has chosen swimming because the water can cool him down and relieve pain in his knees.

Those who never or seldom exercise may find it hard to start, but they will soon get used to it. Look at Khun Anek as a very good example. When he began to exercise he gasped for breath after swimming just for 250 meters, but his strong wish to recover from diabetes encouraged him to carry on. Now he has become a good swimmer who can swim continuously for three kilometers. Khun Anek, in fact, has lost ten kilograms in weight and is no longer worried about the amount of sugar in his blood, even able to predict it on the next day. As a result, a highly efficient medicine to decrease the amount of sugar in blood is a regular exercise and taking care of what we eat on each day, and you will find out that diabetes is not too difficult to control. For more details, please look at "Kin Neua Kin Pak Raksa Baowan" from Ruamthat Publishing, and interested people can apply for a diabetes treatment course on 1-10 June 2005.