If you have pre diabetes, the reason could very well be a poor diet. My dad got it after going on a 3 week cruise where he was pigging out at the all you can eat buffets. Luckily, he caught it in time and reversed it before it became type 2 diabetes.
If you are in your 40′s or older, stop stressing your pancreas by spiking your blood sugar all the time. Sure it’s kind of fun to drink a soda whenever you want a little boost of energy, but the consequences of sloppy and careless eating choices are not worth the benefit.
If you have a family history of diabetes, you are especially at risk. In any case, lower your overall intake of food and don’t have a lot of sugar or carbohydrates at once. Give your body a rest. It might feel bad for the first few days, but after that you’ll feel great and reduce your risk of developing this disease, or even be able to reverse it if you already have it.
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If you have pre diabetes, you should be careful of all junk food. When it’s broken down in the body, sugar is sugar, saturated fat is saturated fat, and so on. You know which foods are bad for you and cause sugar spikes. You don’t need to avoid anything like the plague, you just need to dramatically limit these junk foods. It’s especially important that you don’t eat a lot of it at once because it will really harm your system. These insulin spikes due to high blood sugar is the whole thing you are trying to avoid. Eat smaller meals and more of them. Check your fasting blood sugar often and make modifications as you check the readings. Talk to your doctor about what you are doing and work together on this.
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If you have pre diabetes, you don’t need to push the panic button and stress yourself out. What you need to do is sit down with a piece of paper and write down what you currently eat. Try to think of a sustainable plan to reduce both calories and sugar. You can do without desert and that mid afternoon cola. Make small changes to your diet and stick to them. Go back to your doctor in a few weeks and get your fasting blood sugar looked at again and you might be pleasantly surprised with how much lower it got with a few simple changes. It’s important to be consistent and try not to spike your blood sugar sky high like you’ve been doing since childhood.
So basically, you can eat anything on a pre diabetes diet, just make sure that you moderate it and make sure it better than before. Less calories, less carbs, less sugar. Make those changes and see how your body reacts. Don’t stress yourself out because that could worsen the problem. It really isn’t the end of the world, just start making smarter food choices now.
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If you have pre diabetes, you should absolutely go on a diet designed for pre diabetics. This is the most important time for reversing this problem. Pre diabetes is really just a warning sign. You still have time to get your pancreas and insulin receptors working properly again, but you need to do it now and before it’s too late. This disease in many senses isn’t a disease at all. It’s just a way for doctors to say, “hey, you will have diabetes soon if you keep living this way”. It’s a wake up call. If you change your diet from a high sugar one to a low sugar one, you could reverse the disease and be back to normal.
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Here is a simple overview about how diabetes works.
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What is pre diabetes?
Pre diabetes basically means you have too much sugar in your blood, but not enough to classify as diabetes. This number is somewhat arbitrary, and as silly as it sounds, it’s possible to have pre diabetes or diabetes in the USA but not in Canada. These countries use a different cut off point.
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I’ve heard from people that type 1 diabetes is the one you are born with where as type 2 diabetes is the one that can get when you are older. This description is inaccurate and it’s important that we truly understand the real difference.
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We need to have a general understanding of nutrition and dietary prevention strategies when it comes to preventing diabetes.
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The most important thing to keep in mind when eating is to control your blood sugar. A relatively stable blood sugar is essential in preventing or reversing diabetes.
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Exercise is essential in the prevention of diabetes. Both Cardiovascular and strength training exercise are important but for different reasons.
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Not everyone in the medical community has completely endorsed this notion, but several studies have been pointing to some interesting effects that green tea and cinnamon have on diabetes.
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People with type 2 diabetes have 2 main problems regarding insulin.
1. They don’t produce enough
2. The insulin they do produce isn’t as effective as it should be “reduced insulin sensitivity”
They often take oral medication to help counteract these problems.
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How could water possibly make you fat if it contains zero calories and requires energy to be processed?
It won’t do it on it’s own, but drinking too much water can make you fatter indirectly. We all know that drinking enough water is essential for health for several reasons. Unfortunately, that makes many people wrongly conclude that “more is better” when it comes to drinking water. Drinking water lowers our blood concentration of salt and sugar. That is often a good thing, especially when those levels are too high. Let’s not forget however, that some salt and some sugar in our blood is a good thing. We need a balance and there exists an optimal concentration of blood sugar, sodium, vitamins, and minerals. The optimum blood concentration for these things certainly is not zero. Rest of Article »
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