5 Ways to Manage your Diet for Diabetes

Since my diagnosis with diabetes at the age of eleven, my own diet has changed dramatically.  I maintain my current healthy weight with a great diet/eating plan. If you do plan on losing more than about a stone in weight then I would visit your doctor for more tips on how to do this without risk.

I've had diabetes for seven years now, but to tell you that how I maintain weight is perfect would be totally wrong of me.  However, I can advise you to follow my steps because I know what works and what doesn't. Before I really begin I must also say that I have been brought up by great parents who taught me to eat everything, and so I do! If there is something that you don't like, there are loads of other diabetic recipes and ideas that you will eat and appreciate.

I am a university student and I like to buy fresh and organic produce from where I live. I believe that this is important because it can be the most good for your body and contain more nutrients and vitamins than most supermarket produce. I like to source food from my fortnightly farmers market in town, which sells amazing meat and dairy produce and fresh in season fruit and vegetables. This is another important thing to remember, that eating fruit and vegetables in their season means that they will taste better as well as doing you good. I have a lot of influence from Western European cuisine (mainly France and Italy) as you will tell, but I do not profess to be a chef and everything is easy to make and very convenient.

I have read countless diet books and diabetic recipe/diet books, and I came to a conclusion that I think really works. I fused all the good things from the diets (but not from every diet) and sort of put together my own one. I call this my Juvenile Diabetes Healthy Diet!

The "rules" that I would lay down are as follows:

1. Cut back on snacks and then change the type of snacks you eat.
Certainly my biggest downfall although it wasn't really apparent to me. When I first started at University, I had little or no routine which meant that filling my day was difficult and popping into the kitchen for a snack, no matter how healthy it felt, was a regular occurence. This is one of the hardest things to do for some people, but establishing a great routine is essential to great diabetes care. The types of snacks to be eating are unsalted nuts, dried unsweetened fruit, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables (I love fresh red pepper and cucumber), dark chocolate (richer and nicer and you only want 2 squares usually).

2. Cut back on white flour and embrace wholemeal carbs.
This is the most essential part of your diet, and the thing that can show the biggest increase in loss of weight. Some diets in fact jsut focus on this point, and are very successful. Wholemeal (especially stoneground wholemeal) is so good for you and has so much more flavour in it that switching is much easier than you think. Most people are really surprised at the ranges you can get in you supermarket, again remember that the bread that is best for you is the one that is freshest with least perservatives or added ingredients. Also, brown or basmati rice is great with a lovely nutty texture. Wholemeal pasta is great and for your potatoes I would totally recommend the smaller new potatoes.

3. Stop drinking cocktails, start drinking wine.
Cocktails are full of sugar, colourants and preservatives. As a student I have had loads of practice at going out and not drinking cocktails, so my drink of choice is Malibu and Diet Coke if I feel I have to drink something and I make it last all night. I can then top up with Diet Coke (which has almost no sugar in it) and it looks as though I am drinking Malibu, who is to know. If you are out at a restaurant, red wine is much better than anything else you can order, (except water of course!) and it has been proven that the anti-oxidants in red wine are great for keeping a healthy heart. The recommended amount is one glass a day with your evening meal.

4. Start cooking more fruit and vegetables.
Fresh fruit and vegetables are a great way to get all the vitamins and minerals you need. And there are so many different ways in which to cook vegetables, but I find that raw is the best followed closely by steamed. Both of these ways preserve all their natural goodness as well. I will follow this post with another diabetes recipes post.

5. Drink more water.
I know you have heard people say this many times before, but the benefits of drinking more water are endless. A few tips on how to get more water into your day are firstly to put bottles of water at all the places you go in the house or work. So keep one in your desk, on your desk, a glass in the kitchen, the bedroom, the sitting room, etc. Try and drink all these glasses up and you will be well on your way to 8 glasses a day. The trick is to add a glass every few days or so, if you try to drink all that water in one go you won't be so inclined to drink 8 glasses again, trust me! Have a go, it's amazing how great you will feel.


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Tips for a diabetic diet

Always eat at the same time and regularly check your blood sugar level.

The only five pieces of fruit and vegetables a day, because their fiber is perfect for diabetic slows glucose absorption from the intestine into the blood.

Concentrate on leafy vegetables, and soups and vegetable juices .. In your diet include tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, onions, spinach, beans, bitter gourd, Pumpkin and greens. Also, apple juice, guava, citrus fruits like lemons and are useful, no bypass bananas, mangoes, grapes and papaya.

Vegetables that contain lots of carbohydrates, like potatoes or tapioca, is not recommended.

Eat plenty of starch, which is in bread, cereals and corn. You do not have completely out sugar and sweets, make no more than moderate. Avoid cakes, biscuits, dried fruit and oil when cooking.

And remember - unless you have proper nutrition to strictly adhere to the following rules:

DO NOT SMOKE

DO NOT DRINK ALCOHOL

DO NOT MAKE UNCONTROLLED sugar diet

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White rice increases the risk of diabetes

Nutritionists and scientists prefer yellow rice, because it contains more than a white vegetable fibers and not raise blood sugar quickly in the blood.

Rice is one of the vegetables that are inevitable in almost all cuisines of the world. Should we emphasize that there is a very popular rice diet.

American scientists have studied and analyzed the yellow (integral) and white rice, and concluded that frequent consumption of white rice encourages disease type 2 diabetes (Diabetes Nursing), while the risk of developing this disease is less if you eat yellow rice.

Scientists at Harvard University have come up with the results of doing the analysis of the consumption of white and yellow rice with 157 463 39 756 men and women between 14 and 20.

They found that people who eat white rice five times a week exhibited 17% greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes than those who eat only once a month.

Among those who ate yellow rice two or more times per week the risk of developing diabetes was reduced by 11% compared to those who ate white rice only once a month.

The study, as cited scientists, showed that the replacement of the consumption of white rice yellow or some other grains such as whole grain wheat and barley, reduced by 36 percent risk of developing diabetes.

Yellow rice contains more fiber, minerals and vitamins, and not rising as fast blood sugar as white rice, noted scientists from Harvard.

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Vitamin C for cancer, heart disease and diabetes

Vitamin C is an extremely important nutrient in our body. Associated with treatment of all diseases, diabetes, colds to cancer. Most of the species itself is capable of producing it, but not humans. We have to consume from foods or supplements. Vitamin C affects the formation of collagen, which is located in the bones and ligaments, blood vessels and tendons. It also produces neurotransmitters that affect brain function and mood. It helps create vitamin E protects against free radicals and enhances iron absorption.

Cold

When you say, vitamin C, first at what you think is the flu. Its consumption is recommended to strengthen the immune system, in order to more easily resist the flu or colds. Often we turn to the main vitamin only when we get sick, but doctors assured us that in this way will not affect the development of disease. The body must invest before disease occurs.

Cancer

U.S. National Institutes of Health notes that vitamin C does not prevent cancer, but its consumption of injections reduced tumor growth by as much as 53 percent. Cancers that are particularly affected by vitamin C as cancer of the mouth, throat, vocal cords, stomach, colon and lung. The research involved 870 men over a period of 25 years showed that 83 milligrams of vitamin C per day reduces lung cancer 64 percent.

Heart disease

Cardiovascular disease have declined by 42 percent of men taking 50 milligrams of vitamin C a day.However, women did not fare so well, their rate of disease declined by 25 percent.

Stroke

Japanese researchers who have reviewed the 2.000 respondents, found 54 percent lower risk of stroke in people who eat fruits and vegetables, six to seven days a week. People who ate vegetables less than twice a week have presented a greater risk.

Diabetes

English experts have focused on the association between vitamin C and diabetes. Reviewed the history of many patients and found that those who consume high amounts of vitamin C have a 22 percent lower chance of getting diabetes. Vitamin C is contained in large amounts in citrus fruits, parsley, pepper, papaya, cabbage and sauerkraut (cabbage rolls). Surprisingly, cabbage has more vitamin C than citrus orange, lemon and grapefruit. This is the place for the denial of an urban myth that car for years: large amounts of vitamin C will not cause baldness!

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