What is "Diets for Diabetics"?

Our website is dedicated to supporting Diabetics in their quest to lower their blood sugar levels and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

What is important in addressing the Diabetic Condition? I'm sure you've heard this before: Nutrition & Exercise.

But what does that mean? What nutrition? What should you eat?

First let's answer the question:

What causes the high blood sugar levels in Type 2 Diabetes?

High blood sugar levels are caused by insulin resistance, and insulin resistance is caused mainly by a diet that is too high in carbohydrates and a lack of certain nutrients.

Carbohydrates are simply long chains of sugar molecules (glucose) hooked end-to-end. When you eat carbohydrates your normal digestive process breaks up these chains into the individual sugar molecules, and they pass right through your intestinal wall into your bloodstream, and load up your bloodstream with sugar.  

If this happened every once in a while it would not be a problem.  But as diets today are so high in carbohydrates, you have had a constant high level of sugar pouring into your bloodstream year after year!  This requires your body to continuously produce high levels of insulin to keep that blood sugar level down. (Insulin's job is to push sugar out of the bloodstream into the cells where it is used for energy.)  

Eventually the cells in your body became insensitive to the effects of the insulin (insulin resistance).  To handle this problem of insulin resistance your body began to produce even higher levels of insulin.  This continued until your pancreas reached the maximum amount of insulin it could produce, and when the insulin resistance increased again, your blood sugar began to rise out of control.  The result is type 2 diabetes!  (Type 2 diabetes is actually an extreme case of insulin resistance.)

What can you do?

If you have not already done so, you need to eliminate ALL the starchy carbohydrates from your diet and stop loading up your body with sugar.  Even small amounts of these starchy carbohydrates will prevent your sugar levels from coming down.  This action will give your body a "breather" and the insulin will be able to do it's job of pushing the sugar out of your bloodstream and into the cells, your blood sugar level will drop naturally and the high level of insulin in your body will drop along with it.

To better understand why a low carbohydrate diet, go to the Article: Anatomy of Carbohydrates

Another article is Carbohydrates in Nutrition by a medical doctor on the effects of carbohydrates on someone who is diabetic or insulin resistant

Please take the time to read these!

What type of diabetic diet do you need to follow?

The foods you must eliminate from your diet to help make this happen are foods high in carbohydrates. You can click on this link low carbohydrate foods for a list of what you can eat.

Exercise for Diabetics

Another activity that will increase your body's sensitivity to insulin is doing resistance exercises. These are exercises such as lifting weights or pulling or pushing against muscles, by using various muscle exercise equipment.  If you are not physically up to this type of exercise, begin a walking program, even if it is only walking for 20 minutes, 3 times a week.

Diet for Diabetics

Above you will find a link to our tab for Recipes for Diabetics. Follow these for a healthier lifestyle.

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