ISSUE 77 : 01-15 August 06 Last update August 1 ,2006 -*-
     
 

Diabetes treatment with behavior

By Editor

Sweetness is required and most wanted in life all the time. Everyone loves it. Its taste is really good which can attract and stuck to anybody tasted it. But how many people really know the bad side of it.

Mr. Adule Chotiwatchara who gets used to sweetness and always tastes sweet knows later that he has diabetes.

Mr. Adule told me "I have suffered from diabetes for more than 20 years. I took more medicines continuously. I stopped eating durian but I still had rice. I ate when I was hungry. I really did weigh up to 85 kilograms and my blood sugar was 180 mg/dL. I had to pay for prescription over a thousand per month. They all were expensive pills and the price was approximately a hundred a pill. I initially could not control my blood sugar level so the doctor asked me for an injection. I continued having more and more injections. One day, I could not sleep at night so I got up in the dawn and got a chance to watch Natural Therapy program on TV. I decided to call them and had to wait the result for 3 days."

Had Known Balavi from television show, Mr. Adule started to have a treatment at Balavi Natural Health Center.

"At first, I was so surprised because the doctor is very young (Dr. Korbkarn). I thought that elder doctor could not even cure me of diabetes, not to mention the young one. Ok, let's try. Dr. Korbkarn asked me why I chose to have a treatment here. I just said I was afraid of death. She asked me back why you did not want to die. I said that is because of my son, who still was not successful. My son already succeeds in his life that is when I can be in peace. Now I am a wealthy man. If I die when my son still gets one-two thousand a month as a salary, he definitely cannot live. The income is not enough for him because he gets used to spend much more money. If he was born and live in a slum, I will not worry about this. So I cannot die now."

This is a characteristic feature of Mr. Adule. He is determined to do it. Even his reason of living is not a big deal; he has a huge effort to make himself recover from this disease. He started to change his eating habit first.

"I used to eat everything but now I do not eat rice, flour, sugar, roots and hand of banana. Rice means rice; flour means breads; sugar implies sweets, candies, soft drinks etc.; roots means every type of potato or yam root, chinese radish, including nuts. My blood sugar is from 120 up to 150 mg/dL when I ate a dish of fried nuts. A big size of nut is more delicious than a small one, but it can easily lead your blood sugar level high as well."

Mr. Adule knew about this because he himself drew blood to check his sugar level everyday. Therefore, he knew which diet causes his blood sugar level high or low. The doctor specially looked after him in the beginning. Eight months ago, he went to see the doctor every week and the doctor did not check his blood. Instead, the doctor checked by looking at his notebook which he wrote down what he eats each day, whether he works out or not. According to blood sugar value test (HbAIC), he got very high value up to 10.9 when he came to see us at first. Then, he tried to control his blood sugar level and next the value decreased to only 6.4. He did not get any diabetes injection and he also took less medicines. We really feel satisfied with the result of his blood sugar value. Plus, the problems about uncomfortable with his body, knee pain and intervening disease state all disappeared. This is a good beginning

Mr. Adule mentioned an idea to us that to cure diabetes depends on a doctor 30% and a patient 70% . If the patient does not follow the doctor's instruction, he will not recover for sure. On the contrary, if the patient really has a target to get well from this disease, he can definitely knock over the illness. Many people wonder what diet is suit for diabetic problem. Let's take a look what Mr. Adule tells us.

"Our stomach is easily affected. So we should eat the food which is good for our health, most delicious and also we like the most. Do not eat junk food such as bread, soft drinks. These food is useless so why we have to eat them. If we cannot eat junk food, we have to eat meat and vegetables instead. I also have these foods as a meal but I try to eat more vegetables than usual.

When I eat spicy green papaya salad (Som Tam), Thai meat salad (Larb) and grilled beef with Thai seasoning recipe (Nam Tok), I always ask a vendor to serve me more vegetables. I also pay extra price for vegetables because I really eat a huge amount of vegetables. Actually, I think to recover from diabetes is not like a fast because I still can eat many delicious foods such as steak,curry in sweet peanut sauce (Pha Naeng) and stir-fried vegetables. Exceptionally, I cannot eat starch, sugar and every type of fruit. That's all.

"Health is better than wealth" everyone thinks like that so you should start taking care yourself from now on. Do not let yourself and your beloved person's future take a risk with your eating habit.

"Starting from today and the bright future waiting for you"