3. Eat your fruits - never drink them. I now drink fruit juice ocassionally since my glucose is well controlled BUT previously I never even entertained the thought because it made my glucose level spiked instantly. When you eat your fruit, do so sparingly at first, making sure to consume the fibrous parts of the fruit along with the juice. Avoid raisins, a few grapes are mucch better.

4. Make significant reduction in the use of fats, oils, and grease. This is a very important diabetic diet recommendation. "Low fat, unsaturated fats, no trans fats, no animal fat" are diabetic-friendly terms and generally healthy practices. Considering that 80% of people with type 2 diabetes are already overweight, and that dietary and body fat are key factors in developing diabetes (see what causes diabetes), a low fat diet is important to gaining the kind of control you need.

5. Foods to avoid if at all possible. Only eat very lean meat (or better yet, eat no meat at all). Ahhh! Well, I did say it's my personal experience - right? But it works. It works tremendously. It means I don't worry about high cholesterol. Plus, with a moderate exercise program of one 30-minute aerobic, strengh, or flex training session three or four times per week, I can maintain a flat six-pack ab while looking towards a half-century of birthdays!

6. Diabetes diet recommendation for food preparation - Avoid frying. Use less oil, butter, or fat than a recipe calls for. Steam or microwave vegetables instead of sauteeing them in butter or oil. Use a nonstick spray or film of lecithin instead of greasing a casserole dish.

7. Go for a strole after your meal if you can. A light short (10-minute) walk will help to stimulate glucose intake by muscle cells and cause insulin effectiveness. In general, dietary modifications alone will not bring full control and non-dependence on synthetic drugs. Even if your mobility is severely challenged, you can still exercise. You can get fit without leaving your seat.

8. Modify or adjust your calorie intake according to your blood sugar level. Shortly after I started monitoring my blood glucose level I noticed that my readings were higher in the evenings than they were in the mornings. This implied that I might be making the problem worse or increasing my dependence on pills if I had my largest meal in the evenings. I them made breakfast my largest meal and just has something very light for dinner. It took great effort, especially when the rest of the family followed a different pattern. It also made more sense to me, since I would burn off those calories during the day while working instead of sleeping and storing them while I sleep.

9. Never skip breakfast. Exercise in the morning if you ever felt like not eating breakfast. This will "wake up" your apetite. Eating breakfast help to prevent the urge to snack throughout the day. Soon you will not need the snacks prescribed on your diabetes diet. I now only eat three meals each day - no snacks.

10. Give your body the extra nutrients and help it needs. It was just 10 days after taking the Milagro de la Selva tea that I noticed a significant drop in my blood glucose level. The constituents of this natural tea have insulin-like properties that have been well-researched and documented. I also used a supplement made from a brown seaweed extract containing the complex carbohydrate fucoidan. Fucoidan has been reported in over 700 scientific studies and named for its numerous healing properties.

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These diabetic diet recommendations do have significant benefit because they are part of a set of lifestyle changes that have been proven to even reverse type 2 diabetes by removing the conditions and practices that cause the onset of the disease in the first place. I am not giving diabetic diet information but merely recommending what I have learned from health educators and from my own experience. I recommend them as such, in the hope that, what works for me may also work for other type 2 diabetics.