Healthy Eating Guidelines
The Diabetes Food Pyramid
The Diabetes food pyramid is a tool to help you create a nutritious Diabetes diet plan to help control your blood sugar levels and reduce your body fat.
Salads and Type 2 Diabetes
Eat your vegetables! Youve heard that since you were young. However, as a Type 2 Diabetic, getting your daily dose of vegetables can be tough unless you put some effort into a healthy diet. For that reason, www.TypeFreeDiabetes.com recommends making at least one of your daily meals a tasty and healthy salad. Salads can not only load your system with vitamins and mineral-rich foods, but they can also be tasty.
Protein and Diabetes
Protein is one of the most important components of a Diabetic diet – Insulin is a protein. Diabetics needs to maintain a balanced diet of the recommended amount of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.
Not only will a protein-rich diet help to ensure that your cells function optimally, but protein also helps to control your appetite so that you are satiated throughout the day.
Hydration Mythbusters
1. I need to drink less water in the cooler weather. Despite the outside temperature, you should always drink water or a low calorie beverage in order to maintain hydration. Many people believe that they can drink less water than usual in the winter because they do not sweat as much.
While it may be true that you should drink more water when you sweat (especially in the summer heat), it is vital that you stay hydrated during cooler months as well.
Fruits And Vegetables Mythbusters
Food for Type 2 Diabetes
1. Because fruits and vegetables are natural, they are good for me.
Salad Mythbusters
Diabetes and Nutrition
Do you think a salad has to be a boring bowl of greens that could barely sustain a supermodel? Think again. Salads can have surprising ingredients, and are versatile enough to be either a light side dish or a hearty main attraction. Www.typefreediabetes.com offers easy-to-prepare recipes for salads that are as nutritious as they are delicious. Still not convinced? Read on.
Mastering Nutrition Labels
Food Portion Size
Nutrition labels are one tool a person with Diabetes, or some-one trying to prevent the onset of Type 2 Diabetes, can use to make healthy food choices. To bring more balance to the meals prepared at home or how you purchase your foods and snacks, you can gain a lot of help from the food nutrition labels on most packaging.
Read the nutrition labels as you shop and pay attention to food serving size and servings per container. Compare the total calories in similar products and choose the lowest calorie items. Let us try to break it down and make using the food nutrition label more easily understood and a constant part of our shopping experience.
5 A day starch versus 5 A day fruit and veggies
How To Prevent Diabetes
It is clear that if you start the day with fruit or veggies, you can actually quite easily make the goal of 5 servings a day. Today I had one at breakfast, 2 at lunch and 2 at dinner. Yippee! 5 servings of fruit and veggies today. I had two servings of starch today. I feel pretty good overall, not overly full and not at all hungry. Once we get through this phase, we will need to start talking about the rest of our nutrition; protein, fluids and so on.
5 A day starch versus 5 A day fruit and veggies
How To Prevent Diabetes
It is clear that if you start the day with fruit or veggies, you can actually quite easily make the goal of 5 servings a day. Today I had one at breakfast, 2 at lunch and 2 at dinner. Yippee! 5 servings of fruit and veggies today. I had two servings of starch today. I feel pretty good overall, not overly full and not at all hungry. Once we get through this phase, we will need to start talking about the rest of our nutrition; protein, fluids and so on.
