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Winter Wellness for Diabetics
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Winter Wellness for Diabetics

An individual with diabetes shares their strategies for staying healthy during the winter, emphasizing the importance of warmth, a healthy diet, and vaccinations.

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I don't think it affects me too much, well I think it's the cold that's the one that affects me. I try not to catch cold because once you catch cold, it will trigger your, it is very, what you call, dangerous, whatever, to have, to be ill during wintertime. So you must have to keep warm. And once, because diabetes, You can catch a lot of risk factors, especially in wintertime. So just like cold and whatever, flu, maybe when there's no more COVID, so that's the one. not to catch flu or cold because it is really important for a person who had diabetes. So just try, what my advice is to keep warm, try to eat healthy food not to you know healthy diet that's all I can say. And are there any other challenges that are extra significant in the winter in relation to diabetes? Any other challenges? I know of any more. That's fine. And are there any issues during winter with your diabetes that you need extra support with? Not really because having diabetes for 30 years is I'm used to it what I have been doing and thanks God for that I don't have I don't catch cold I didn't have flu I just go for the whatever vaccine they give me I go and that's all I do. And if you could give advice to someone struggling with diabetes in these winter months, what would that advice be? My advice is just to not to skip your food because it is important for a diabetes. You try to eat three times a day and should be healthy, should be a healthy diet and keeping yourself warm, that's all. And can you give a message to the healthcare experts about how they can support you in the winter months? The first thing I give is we must have a a warm place to live in. That's all I can say. And if people who are poor, who doesn't have enough to buy their food and everything, they should, I don't know what to do, whether They should be looking after those rich people, poor people, to see whether, especially those who have diabetes, to make sure they have a good diet.

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