It's important to start taking a very solid diet that can keep diabetes away. Also, do all you can to spend some time each day or two to four times each week to exercise. It has been proven by experts that constant exercise can help keep diabetes away, regardless of whether one is genetically predisposed to it or not.

I am yet to see people that engage in regular exercises and eat the right diet that end up with diabetes. So, yes, it's true that if you constantly engage in exercises, rather than just sitting pretty in one spot each and every day, you can prevent diabetes.

Always ensure that your family members know about your diabetes so that they can give you the necessary and needed support. It's going to be difficult to go through diabetes alone. You need the support and encouragement of loving family members and friends. Don't keep it away from them.

A simple exercise that you can do on a daily basis to help you manage your diabetes is walking. If your place of work isn't so far away from your home, you can walk there every day, rather than take the car or bus. It's not the walking alone that will do the trick. It's the consistency. The more you do it, the more it helps. This way you can banish your previous life of inactivity and replace it with a new one of physical activity, each and every day.

Do you know that simply smiling all the time can help with your diabetes, especially as a way of keeping your stress level down? It's true. You see, smiling helps because anytime you smile, you release endorphins which help you manage stress. You can take it a step further by laughing every time you get the opportunity to. Better still, get lots of comedies that will help you laugh and be happy. This will help far more than you can imagine.

No matter how much you love sugar, it's time to give it up, as a diabetic patient. You can however replace your love for sugar with honey. It's also sweet as sugar but doesn't contain the harmful properties of sugar for diabetic patients.

Some of the popular fruits and vegetables that help in the management of diabetes include whole grains, oysters, egg yolk, nuts and seeds, beef liver, almonds, sardines, ginger root, and even chicken.

Want to hear some good news about diabetes? Here goes - there are now lots of very effective treatments for diabetes that it's plain foolish for anyone with diabetes not to take advantage of them. They include - Thiazolidinediones (for helping diabetic patients become more receptive to insulin), Biguanides (for decreasing the glucose that's being produced by the liver of diabetic patients), D-phenylalanine derivatives (for stimulating as well as hastening the production of insulin by the pancreas), Alpha-glucosidase inhibitors (for effectively slowing down starch absorption) and a host of others.