Looking after your Diabetes to prevent complications Written by Dr Harold Gunatillake FRCS, FIACS, FICS, AM (Sing), MB,BS-Health writer Diabetes is a condition where the glucose absorbed in the gut through the digestion of carbs, seem to remain in the blood stream, as the hormone insulin responsible for the control of glucose is impaired from the Islet cells of the pancreas resulting in abnormal metabolism of carbs and elevated levels of glucose in the blood. When you have diabetes, your blood glucose levels tend to be consistently high unless properly controlled with medication, diet and exercise. Overtime, such increased levels of blood sugar damage your body and lead to many other problems. Normally, your blood sugar should be maintained fasting for 8 hours to an average level of about 100mg/dl. When it reaches the upper limit of 126 mg/dl you get into the stage of ‘Pre-diabetes”, a stage you could ...