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7 Tips For An Easy And Balanced Diabetes Diet

t is often thought that diabetics need a special
diet and that they have to cut out certain food
items altogether, or replace them with special "
Diabetic" items purchased from health food stores.
This is not the case and is nothing more than a
clever marketing ploy. In reality, diabetics can
eat exactly the same food as everybody else.

Because diabetes is a metabolic disorder and
requires the sufferer to control of glucose
levels in the blood, diabetics do need to pay
careful attention to their diet and must ensure
that their diet is correctly balanced.

So, what sort of foods should diabetics be
selecting when it comes to creating a balanced
diet? Well, here are 7 suggestions:

1. Include a wide range of fruit and vegetables
and avoid sticking to just your two or three
favorites. One good test to apply to fruit and
vegetables is the color test, which simply means
that you should try to eat fruit and vegetables
that span the colors of the rainbow. So, include
a wide range such as bananas, oranges, apples,
red cabbage, carrots and beans. Also, include
vegetables which are either low in starch or
starch-free, such as broccoli and spinach.

2. Wherever possible try to eat whole grain
rather than processed food and choose things like
whole wheat spaghetti and brown rather than white
rice.

3. Add fish to your diet at least two times a
week. Fish is an excellent source of protein and
also contains a number of essential oils. Try to
avoid frying fish, especially in batter, and boil,
steam, bake or grill fish instead.

4. Choose lean cuts of meat and bake, grill,
roast, braise or stew meat in preference to
frying it. When buying meat choose cuts that
include the word "loin" such as pork loin or
sirloin. When cooking wildfowl and poultry remove
the skin before serving and steer clear of
particularly fatty meats such as duck.

5. Choose non-fat dairy products such as skimmed
milk as well as non-fat cheese and yoghurt. Many
people find that these products, although they
are a very healthy option, simply any real taste.
If you find that this is the case then try to
meet the problem half way by choosing low-fat
rather than non-fat products and compensate for
this by using them sparingly in your diet.

6. Avoid high calorie sweetened drinks and
carbonated drinks and try to drink more water and
natural fruit juices. Also be careful not to
drink too much coffee or tea and add only as much
sugar as in needed for taste. You'll be surprised
by just how easy it is to cut out sugar
altogether if you put your mind to it and you'll
end up enjoying tea and coffee just as much as
you did before.

7. Finally, cut back on desserts and, while it's
alright to eat cake and ice-cream occasionally
try to include these in your diet only once or
twice a week rather than every day. Also, try to
wean yourself away from full cream ice-cream and
cakes to lower fat alternatives.

If by this stage you're thinking that this looks
like a normal healthy eating routine then you're
quite right. There is no such thing as a "
diabetic diet" and all that you need to do to
control diabetes in terms of diet is to adopt a
simple and sensible habit of eating a good
balance of healthy foods.
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