Visit a nutritionist. This is especially important information for certain ethnic groups such as Hispanics, Native Americans and African Americans. A nutritionist can suggest alternative cooking techniques and spices to substitutes for oil and salt. If complications develop, new medical advances are making a difference in the lives of diabetics. One example is distal bypass surgery.
Poor circulation suffered by people with diabetes is often a sign of blocked or narrowed arteries.
A vascular surgeon can bypass those arteries, rerouting blood in the patient's leg through another vein. And improvements like new magnification techniques now allow surgeons to operate much farther down on the leg.