Diabetes Diet

Along with a diagnosis of diabetes often comes the requirement to drastically change one’s dietary habits. Whether it is Type 1 Diabetes or Type 2 Diabetes, ensuring you have the right diabetes diet is essential to staying healthy. As diabetes is linked to sugar levels, having diabetes meal plans that regulate one’s total sugar consumption becomes an essential component to a management plan.

Diabetes Meal Plans

• It is recommended that a diabetes diet has between 50 and 60 percent of its total daily calories from carbohydrates, 12 to 20 percent from protein and a maximum of 30 percent from fats.
• A proper gestational diabetes diet should include spacing meals out through the course of a day, with regular light meals instead of infrequent heavy meals.
• A key component to any diet is to loose weight. However, weight should be lost gradually, or no more than one to two pounds per week.
• As diabetics are at an increased risk of heart disease, meal plans should be low on saturated fats and cholesterol.
• To avoid high blood levels, you should focus on unsaturated and monounsaturated fats instead of saturated fats.
• In general, a diabetes diet should avoid meats and dairy products and instead favor vegetable and olive oils.
• Some studies have shown that high-fiber foods, like fruits, vegetables and whole-grains, help lower blood sugar levels.

The QualityHealth Difference

The key to healthy living with diabetes is to manage your blood sugar levels. As any doctor or health professional will tell you, the way to manage blood sugar is through a diet and well thought out eating habits. In other words, you are what you eat – and if you eat healthy, you’ll get closer to being healthy.

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