Healthy Nutrition For The Diabetic
The healthy diabetic makes an effort to get daily exercise, take their insulin or oral pills, and eat the healthy foods that help to control their glucose level. It is not easy to make healthy food choices when we are faced with goodies and snack items. Diabetics need to watch carbohydrate and sugar intake. Talk with your doctor or dietician for guidelines for healthy eating.
Here are just a few basics to get you started in the meantime for a lifetime of healthy eating.
Select a rainbow of different colored vegetables and fruits to vary your diet to prevent boredom and to maximize the amount of nutrients that you are taking into your body. If you are diabetic choose the non-starchy vegetables like spinach, carrots, broccoli and green beans.
It is also important to choose whole grains instead of foods that have been overly processed. Substitute brown rice, whole wheat bread and wheat spaghetti for white bread, white rice and white spaghetti.
Include dried beans, and lentils in your meals. You should also have fish 2 to 3 times a week.
When eating meats make sure that you choose the lean cuts of meat and that you remove the skin from chicken and turkey.
When choosing dairy makes sure that it is non-fat dairy products such as skim milk, 1% or 2% milk, non-fat yogurt and non-fat cheese.
When you are choosing your beverages make sure that you stay away from regular soda, sugary drinks, and sugar-sweetened drinks, fruit punch and sweetened tea. Choose water and low-calorie or no calorie “diet” drinks.
When cooking choose the liquid oils instead of the solid fats that can contain high saturated and trans fats. Remember that fats contain high amounts of calories.
Be careful with portion sizes. Eating the right foods is not all there is to eating healthy. Eating proper amounts of food and not over-eating is also important when it comes to eating fewer calories and losing weight. The more you eat, the more calories you take in. Eating too much of even healthy food can still put on the weight.
Many first-time diabetics are asked to attend a nutrition class. This class is important because it teaches you to make good food choices. The class can clarify food groups for you, and explain the importance of determining portion sizes. It can help you to decide which vegetables are better for diabetics to eat and which vegetables to avoid. In the class you will learn which foods and drinks to consume and how much to consume if you are experiencing low blood glucose levels
Technorati Tags : eating healthy choose class
Possibly related posts:
