Food Choices are very important when dealing with diabetes.
Diabetes is not being able to deal with glucose (blood sugar) as well as a normal person. The amount of glucose-producing food put into your body will determine how much glucose your body has to deal with. Monitoring your blood sugar level frequently to understand the effects of your diet changes is a big part of taking care. To cure yourself of diabetes, an alkaline diet with natural food is the foundation. Diabetes is linked to an acid environment with the body which makes all the steps of metabolism less efficient. The recommendations here should be considered with your doctor’s input.
Foods to avoid include: -Those containing refined sugar (including high-fructose corn syrup and white sugar) which include sweets, syrups, jam, molasses, fruit sugar, ice-cream, cakes, pastries, sweet biscuits, chocolates, soft drinks, condensed milk, and nearly any processed food (look at the ingredients label, you will be surprised). Soft drinks are very dangerous. I’m pretty sure ‘big glups’ from convenience stores had a large part to play in my becoming a type 2 diabetic. -Fats should be controlled. This includes butter, hydrogenated vegetable oil, and the blends that are being marketed as well. Fried foods need fat of some sort to cook in, so they should be avoided as well. -White flour, processed foods, pasta, junk food, pastries, cookies, canned and preserved foods. The sugar in these products are absorbed so fast that a diabetics impaired metabolism results in a huge blood sugar spike.
Foods to be limited:
-Added salt should be eliminated as sufficient salt is provided in vegetables and fruits your diet will include.
-Coffee and tea should be limited to 2 cups a day. This can be replaced with green or herbal teas.
-Red meats, poultry, and eggs need to be limited because of the effect the ‘bad fats’ in them (especially grain-fed animals) have on your body. You are making enough of these substances for yourself, no need to add on.
-Alcohol on an empty stomach is very dangerous. It can lower your blood sugar drastically and then spike this as the alcohol is broken down into simple sugars. This results in a emotional roller coaster ride that isn’t very fun.
-Natural sugars such as honey, palm sugar and dates can be consumed, but in small quantities only. -Wheat products need to be limited to whole grain types, but I’ve found that any wheat is bad for me. The basic body use formula for wheat is: wheat turns to sugar, which after spiking your blood sugar, turns to fat. -Fats to be used in a limited fashion include olive and peanut oils.
-Fish and seafood are much better sources of protein than red meat, use these foods for your meat sources. Low fat milk, yogurt, and cottage cheese should be considered a similar alternate protein source rather than red meat. Foods to be used: -An alkaline diet of natural food re balances the bio-chemical equations in a diabetic person, resulting in increased insulin sensitivity. I’ve been able to cut my prescription in half thanks to making a few diet changes:
-8 glasses of water a day, at least. -Eating raw fruits (shoot for 5 a day), vegetables, and nuts. Cooked foods raise blood sugar levels higher and faster than raw unpeeled foods as complex molecules are broken before eaten. Cooking also breaks down enzymes, vitamins and minerals making these foods less nutritious.
-Raw fruits include apples, oranges, grapefruit, pomegranate juice, bananas, figs, cranberries, black berries, kiwi. Fruit juices are recommended as well, but make sure they are not sweetened.
-Raw vegetables include salad ingredients: lettuce, onion, cucumber,spinach, radishes, peas, and colorful vegtables.
-Soluble fiber, from oatmeal, beans, peas and bean sprouts provide multiple benefits and needs to be part of each meal. Not only does the fiber slow down the absorption of sugars, avoiding blood sugar spikes, it also cleans the lower gut of previous food scraps before they stay and putrefy in you. Also, high fiber foods are typically high in chromium, which is a powerful catalyst for sugar digestion. Chromium shortage is a typical issue in diabetic people as this mineral is essential in stopping insulin resistance. The complete story on how diabetes is a disease of malnutrition and an acidic internal environment is discussed in Reverse Diabetes NOW!, a book I recommend highly.
The information in this statement is based on Anita Cherry’s work which is available at http://www.healthinfoforyou.com/an/natural-cure-for-diabetes.htm In a future installment, we will cover specific foods and spices that contribute to controlling diabetes.
