Low Sodium Diabetic Diet

Upon being diagnosed with diabetes, one of the main concerns is probably how you’ll control your carbs intake. However, there is another nutrient that every type 2 diabetes patient should take into consideration: sodium. What is the relationship between diabetes and sodium? Sodium is an important electrolyte that helps regulate fluid balance in the body and ensure proper nerve and muscle function. However, data from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) shows that 89% of adults are getting too much salt. When the body is unable to get rid of the excess salt,…

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2200 Calorie Diabetic Diet

Healthy eating is vital for the management of diabetes and can make a difference in controlling blood sugar levels and preventing the long-term effects of the condition. A 2,200-calorie diabetic diet refers to eating a maximum of 2,200 calories per day. This diet is commonly used by diabetes patients to lose weight, control blood glucose, or lower the risk of developing complications such as heart problems. Blood sugar refers to the amount of simple sugar (glucose) in the blood. Glucose mainly comes from carbohydrates and it mainly provides energy in the body. Most diabetic diets…

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Diabetic Diet Facts

The food you choose to eat, can be powerfully important for your overall health and well being.Your diet can make an enormous difference to cholesterol, blood pressure and blood glucose levels.  The diabetic meal plan is designed to help control blood sugar levels, the less fluctuation, especially rapid release of glucose in the blood is an important aspect of blood sugar control in patients with diabetes mellitus. It was once thought that the diabetes diet was focused mainly around just cutting out sugar from your diet. However more recently it seems the recommendations for a…

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Carbohydrate Diabetic Diet

Importance of a Low Carbohydrate Diabetic Diet Being diabetic can be a tough thing to do and once you hear those dreaded words telling you that you are diabetic, it seems as if your world starts crashing down. A Carbohydrate Diabetic Diet really in all reality, isn’t a bad practice for any of us. Most of us these days seem to eat way too many carbohydrates which can add on those extra pounds and cause us many more medical problems versus the standard and traditional just not eating well. Carbohydrates are hard to breakdown which…

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1200 calorie diabetic plan

What is a good 1200 calorie diabetic plan? For diabetics a good diet means everything to them. If they eat wrong types of food their blood sugar explodes. If they eat too little food they can suffer hypoglycemia. So the right diabetic diet is everything. Diabetes is a condition where the body produces too little of a chemical called insulin. (The pancreas organ is responsible) They chemical called insulin is responsible for changing the blood sugar in your blood into fuel that the body can use. When too little of the insulin is in the…

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