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RE: 3 Ways To Control Your Diabetes, Contributed by Community
To control your diabetes
Reduce your cravings for sweets by slowly reduce the sugar in your diet a little at a time to give your taste buds time to adjust.
Hold the bread (or rice or pasta) if you want dessert. ...
Add some healthy fat to your dessert. ...
Eat sweets with a meal, rather than as a stand-alone snack.
Absolutley agree! Excessive carbohydrate intake, particularly of artificial "simple ones, does seem to lead to insulin resistance, as the body is constantly attempting to bring down the level of sugar present in the blood. Healthy fats will help you feel full when you have less carbohydrates, protein keeps your body from going after your muscles and when you eat fewer calories than you body needs (per your activity levels), it will eat away at excess body fat that may be impacting your organ function.
A slow gradual change will be smoothest transition, but if you go cold turkey, you see a quick difference, partially due to water weight. Speaking of which, make sure you are getting a lot of water and your electrolytes (sodium, potassium, magnesium) to avoid the brain fog or achiness your body will experience during sugar withdrawls, especially with the widespread "western diet" these days.
Oh brain fog..gotta read that. Asians seem to have the highest number of diabetis so am thinking that carbs plays a role in it.
Fructose and sucrose, the sugars in carbohydrates, are being shown to cause serious inflammation, (and fructose especially) leads to your body storing fat to keep our bodies from having too high of blood sugars. Our brains and our bodies don't have use for so much and we are seeing serious health epidemics because the sugar industry paid to bury the lead for years...healthcare is still trying to catch up but the evidence against sugar grows daily.