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Diabetes

Ways to help your diabetes

4 ways to help your diabetes:

  1. Eat your food slowly. The slower you eat your food the faster you get full and you eat less.
  2. Eat every meal and snack between meals so you avoid spikes in your blood sugar it will maintain your sugar levels.
  3. Look at your relationship to food, some people eat because they are bored, stressed, or upset so keep that in mind when you eat.
  4. Measure what you eat to the serving of the package labels.

Diabetes is when your body can’t produce insulin or not enough and it can cause your glucose levels to elevate. Over time other health conditions can develop associated with diabetes like:

  • Cataracts  (eye lenses clouding over)
  • Kidney disease
  • Heart disease or stroke
  • Nerve damage in the feet
  • Slow healing sores
  • Peripheral neuropathy: Damage to the peripheral nervous system
  • Postural hypotension- drop in blood pressure

What is your glycemic index on the foods that you eat?
The glycemic index is a system that ranks foods on a scale from 1 to 100 based on their effect on blood sugar levels.  Foods that raise blood sugar quickly have a higher number and foods that take longer to increase blood sugar levels have a lower number. The lower the glycemic index the longer you feel full.  When you are consistently eat foods with lower glycemic index scores you lose weight and decrease your risk of diabetes.

GI of 55 or less = low, GI of 56 to 69 = medium, GI of 70 or more = high        

 Exercising shouldn’t feel like a chore, it should be creative and have fun with it!

  • You should always begin with a warm up of light cardio five to ten minutes
  • Beginners do one set of twelve to sixteen reps of each exercise
  • Intermediate and advanced;  perform two to three sets of ten to sixteen reps with short rests in between
  • If you want to increase your intensity you can by adding weights or slowing your movements down
  • Always switch it up so you aren’t getting bored with the same routine

According to the Journal Applied Physiology you should get at least 150 minutes of physical activity each week.
Why should you exercise?

  1. Live longer
  2. Sick less
  3. More energy
  4. Sleep better
  5. Less Stressed
  6. Boost your confidence
  7. Better posture
  8. Improved memory

Schedule Your DOT Physical Exam in Grand Junction

Here is how the process works:

  1. Register and pay for your exam by clicking here
  2. Arrive ready to complete minimal paperwork
  3. We’ll do a thorough examination and determine your certification length
  4. You have the option of having us recommend wellness strategies that’ll improve your health

To make your life easier you can register and pay for your DOT Physical in Grand Junction, Colorado at www.dotgj.com plus save $

How Sugar Affects Your DOT Exam

How sugar affects your DOT exam and your certification length is important to know.  More importantly, how Insulin affects your DOT exam is critical if you are an Insulin dependent diabetic.  Urine Screen

When commercial drivers present for the DOT physical they are required to provide a urine sample.  The sample always is testing for medical conditions.  The specific things the medical urine sample tests for are: blood, protein, sugar and specific gravity (a measurement of how concentrated the sample is).  In some circumstances your employer may have you do a toxicology urine test, otherwise known as a ‘drug test’, but the toxicology urine sample is not required for your medical certificate.

Urine stick with sugar/glucose and a normal stick
Urine stick with sugar/glucose and a normal stick

The presence of sugar in your urine indicates there is a problem.  It does not automatically give you the diagnosis of diabetes nor automatically require you to take insulin.  The urine portion is considered a screening evaluation.  It is not diagnostic, meaning it cannot say for certain you have a named medical condition.

Your examiner will require:

  1. further questioning regarding your food and fluids intake to see if that explains why there is sugar in your urine
  2. a more detailed family history regarding diabetes
  3. more specific diagnostic tests to make sure you’re healthy and do not have a sugar handling disease

After the examiner is certain you’re safe to operate vehicles on motorways they’ll determine your certification length.  If you have the diagnosis of diabetes that may impact the length of your certification, but more than anything what medications you take influences your certification length.

Oral medications may reduce the card length your examiner give you.  If you’d like to see what the FMCSA says about earning a two year card you can click here.

Insulin is another story.  The FMSCA has specific requirements for people dependent on Insulin.  Please click here for more information on the Insulin waiver program.

How Sugar Affects Your DOT Exam – We’ve put together some great tips on Diabetes Prevention and welcome you to visit that post.

We know you’re busy and when you need a DOT physical we’re here to help.  If you’re able to pay online and register this saves you $10 and a bunch of time when you arrive to your exam.

Here is how the process works:

Learn How Sugar Affects Your DOT Exam plus Schedule Your DOT Physical Exam in Grand Junction

Here is how the process works:

  1. Register and pay for your exam by clicking here
  2. Arrive ready to complete minimal paperwork
  3. We’ll do a thorough examination and determine your certification length
  4. You have the option of having us recommend wellness strategies that’ll improve your health

To make your life easier you can register and pay for your DOT Physical in Grand Junction, Colorado at www.dotgj.com plus save $

Diabetes Prevention

Diabetes Prevention
Diabetes Prevention

Diabetes prevention is a big priority especially if you have an increased risk of diabetes based on family history or being overweight. If you start your prevention now it will not only help reduce your likelihood of developing diabetes but it will also help you avoid serious health complications later on and make for an easy, stress free DOT physical.

Prevention Tip #1: Increase your intake of fiber – this will help improve your blood sugar control, promote weight loss, and reduce your risk of heart disease

Prevention Tip #2: Eat whole grains – this will help maintain your blood sugar levels.  Look for “whole” on the packaging to ensure you are getting the right grains and also aim to make half of your grains whole grains

Prevention Tip #3: Increase your physical activity – doing this will help you lower your blood sugar, lose weight, and boost your sensitivity to insulin (insulin helps keep your blood sugar in a normal range)

Prevention Tip #4: Lose weight – exercising regularly will not only help you lose the extra weight but it will also do what was mentioned in tip #3.

Prevention Tip #5: Forgo those fad diets – fad diets will help you lose weight but it will not help you maintain that weight so skip the diets and start adding a healthy variety in your eating choices and consider portion control.

Diabetes Prevention
Diabetes Prevention

Diabetes prevention has been shown to work. In this article from the New York Times, it was stated that of the adults at risk for Type 2 diabetes in this clinical trial from 2002, there was a reduced incidence of diabetes by 58% just by being involved in a lifestyle modification program and the weight loss from the program. The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention is hoping on board and in 2012 they started a National Diabetes Prevention Program.

For more information on the long term benefits of diabetes prevention from lifestyle modifications check out this article.

We know you’re busy and when you need a DOT physical we’re here to help.  If you’re able to pay online and register this saves you $10 and a bunch of time when you arrive to your exam. Reducing stress while driving is important and we wish to help by providing an easy process for your DOT physical in Grand Junction.

Diabetes Prevention plus Schedule Your DOT Physical Exam in Grand Junction

Here is how the process works:

  1. Register and pay for your exam by clicking here
  2. Arrive ready to complete minimal paperwork
  3. We’ll do a thorough examination and determine your certification length
  4. You have the option of having us recommend wellness strategies that’ll improve your health

To make your life easier you can register and pay for your DOT Physical in Grand Junction, Colorado at www.dotgj.com plus save $