Diabetic Diet: Do And Do Not

Diet plays a key role in controlling the diabetes. The diabetic diet may be used alone or else in combination with oral hypoglycemic drugs or insulin doses. The most important target of diabetic diet is to maintain ideal body weight, by providing sufficient nutrition along with normal blood sugar levels in blood.

Your diabetic diet maybe concentrates on vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. It's the same healthy eating plan that's most excellent for everybody, but it's not always simple to follow your diabetic diet. Therefore, consider these points about what you should do and not to do so as to reach your target in diabetic diet.


A few things that you should do:

• Take cholesterol-lowering oatmeal for breakfast.
• Take fat free milk, cheese, and yogurt.
• Increase intake of dry beans and peas.
• Eggs whites to be included.
• Have nuts rich in mono unsaturated fat, such as walnuts, almonds, and pecans.
• Eat pasta, stews and leafy salads along with beans-- kidney beans, chick peas, and dry beans, navy beans and peas which can reduce LDL "bad"; cholesterol.
• White meat chicken, Fish, and shellfish (not battered) are good.
• Have at least 20 to 25 grams of raw onion daily.
• Add wheat bran to your wheat flour (50% wheat flour + 50% wheat bran). This helps increase fiber in your diet.
• Increase fiber intake in the form of vegetables, raw fruits, whole cereals etc.
• You can also add flaxseed and methyl seeds into the wheat flour.
• Eat less high-fat red meat and more low-fat turkey and fish. Avoid organ meats.
• Intake of onion, cinnamon, garlic, bitter gourd, guar beans is known to greatly reduce blood glucose level.
• Limit your salt (sodium content).
• Rinse processed foods in water and, wherever possible, choose fresh foods over canned.
• Limit the use of condiments such as ketchup, mustard and salad dress ion--they're high in salt and can be high in sugar, too.

A few things that you should not to do:

• Don't fry foods instead bake, broil, poach or saute in nonstick pans. Buy tuna packed in water, not oil.
• Don't select junk foods and ready to eat items available to you.
• Don't consume alcohol and stop smoking.
• Don't skip meals and medicine times.

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Gree Lya is an author of diet-wayout.blogspot.com, features about healthy diet, tips, menu, plans, and recipes. Get free information about healthy diets. Reach your diet goals through a healthy way.

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