Eat this not that.
Welcome to the new Community Health and Wellness blog from the Bigtown Hospital. The purpose of our blog is to provide you with information and tips for how to manage your diabetes. Our first blog post is about the substitutions you can make on foods that will help manage your type 2 diabetes. First off, we'd like to explain the disease diabetes mellitus. Diabetes is a disease that occurs when your blood sugar, also known as blood glucose, is too high. Your blood sugar is your main source of energy, and it comes from the food you consume. Your pancreas creates a hormone called insulin, which helps the glucose from the foods you eat get into your cells to be used as energy. There are two types of diabetes. -Type 1 diabetes: a chronic condition to which the pancreas produces little or no insulin. -Type 2 diabetes: is the most common type of diabetes, it's a chronic condition when your blood sugar, blood glucose, is too high because your body doesn't use insulin properly....