How to Heal Diabetes Naturally with Food
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You can manage, heal, and reverse pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes without medications and even manage your blood sugar levels if you have type 1 diabetes - all using the power of nourishing foods. Here’s how to escape the cycle caused by medications and injections often required when dealing with the insulin based condition, by switching up your meal plan and learning how to deal with your blood sugar levels - naturally!
If you currently have type 2 diabetes (or pre-diabetes) you know just how important your diet is when it comes to controlling your diabetic symptoms. The problem is, you are very likely part of the extremely high percentage of diabetes sufferers who are also genuinely confused by all the information and advice thrown around about exactly ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of the changes you need to make to your diet.
More than one in every 10 adults who are 20 years or older has diabetes, and over the past several decades, this chronic disorder has swept through the America and many nations in an almost epidemic-like manner, proving that conflicting info really isn’t leading us in the right direction.
Shocking right? But here’s the great news.
You CAN reverse type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes. You DO NOT NEED to just control it.
There is answer, and that answer is quite straightforward and simple.
Diabetes is often treated by pushing medications that reduce blood sugar levels and help your body use your insulin more effectively, but switching up your meal plan and simply eating foods that don’t raise blood sugar very much is absolutely essential for keeping blood sugar levels steady, and can reversing PRE-DIABETES and TYPE 2 DIABETES.
As I said you can start the processes of reversing your type 2 diabetes without medication.
This life changing discovery is something you’ve most likely never heard about, probably because big pharma does not want you to hear about it. Big industry designed a system to keep you spending money on their drugs and actually may want to keep you shackled to prescription drugs and insulin shots to keep getting the revenue from these ‘medications’.
Fixing this health crisis is definitely something that needs to be done. Just to give you the big picture: diabetes is a 242-billion-dollar industry in America, with the average diabetic spending 243 THOUSAND dollars over their lifetime once being diagnosed with diabetes.
Can you see how it all works now?… just awful, right?!
But, by losing weight (if you’re over-weight), reducing sugar, processed carbs, and some simple carbs from your diet and by your filling your plate with the right foods, you can also make a huge impact on managing your blood sugar levels if you have type 1 diabetes and work on reversing type 2 diabetes, while reducing the need for medications.
I won’t go into detail on the whole connection sugar and carb has with your diabetes in this post, since I want to focus on going beyond the crucial step of cutting carbs and reducing sugar consumption and focus on adding diabetic healing foods to a healthy diabetic diet.
But, a short summary of that would be that the overconsumption of sugars, simple carbs, and processed carbohydrate leads to insulin resistance, where your fat, liver cells and muscles, won’t respond properly (they start resisting or ignoring the signals insulin sends out to help you process all of the sugar you just ingested), causing a chain reaction and leaving excess glucose in your blood.
After a time this insulin resistance may lead to scary conditions like obesity, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, stroke and some serious female specific health issues!
If you’re interested I have put together a whole Ultimate Guide to Sugar and Carb with Diabetes + healing it Naturally. In it I explain how Sugar and Carbs can cause diabetes, and how reducing forms of it can reverse diabetes - BUT for now lets take a look at the best foods you should start eating to control diabetes!
What should diabetics eat? The best foods for diabetes.
A perfect, healing, balancing pre-diabetic/diabetic diet should include a mix of nutrient-rich, lower carb foods, moderate amount of carb fiber-rich foods, non-starchy veggies, protein packed foods and healthy fats.
Following this diet will not only help reduce blood sugar levels and possibly reverse pre-diabetic/type 2 diabetic symptoms, but will also improve overall health, may protect against other chronic conditions and even keep your waistline in check, and as we now know keeping a healthy weight is a major factor in reversing type 2 diabetes.
Luckily following a specific clean eating diabetic diet that’ll help you lose weight and manage your blood sugar levels doesn’t have to be difficult. Actually, if you incorporate just a few diabetes-friendly healing and balancing foods into your routine (along with of course cutting out sugary foods and sodas), it should help enhance insulin sensitivity and stabilize blood sugar.
Let us take a look at the best foods you should start eating to control (even heal pre- and type 2) diabetes, and what foods you should start to avoid to bring balance back to your physical body.
What Foods to Start Eating to Control Diabetes
Fill your diet with nutrient-rich protein packed whole foods. Here are some top choices for a diabetic food list:
Non-Starchy Veggies:
Salad greens like spinach, kale, and Swiss chard, cruciferous veggies like broccoli and cauliflower, carrots, tomatoes, mushrooms, cabbage, bell peppers, celery, brussels sprouts.
Meat and Poultry:
Grass-fed beef, lamb, free-range chicken, turkey, duck, goat, wild-caught salmon, sardines, mackerel, canned tuna in water, tuna, anchovies.
Healthy Fat:
Eggs, organic non-GMO tofu, coconut oil, avocado, olive oil, ghee, grass-fed butter.
Drinks:
Plenty of water, coffee with no added sweeteners or flavors and tea.
Extras:
Keep your daily carb allotment moderated, and fill it with limited quantities of these healthy foods:
• Best nuts & seeds: Almonds, pistachios, walnuts, macadamia nuts, chia seeds, hemp seeds flax seeds.
• Best fruits: Apples with the skin on, berries like blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries, oranges, bananas, pears with the skin on, peaches with the skin on, cherries, apricots with the skin on, kiwi, melon.
• Best dairy products: Nonfat, unsweetened kefir, unsweetened yogurt, feta cheese, cottage cheese, goat’s milk, skim milk.
• Grains; when it comes to grains: very small amounts brown rice, quinoa and oat can be okay.
Bonus Vitamins.
Adding powerful into your diet maybe incredibly beneficial, by increasing much needed vitamins to start the balancing process in your body:
• Chromium Picolinate. Evidence has shown that taking chromium picolinate (a chemical compound that contains chromium) by mouth, can lower fasting blood sugar, lower insulin levels, and help insulin work in people with type 2 diabetes. Other positive outcomes include reduced cholesterol and triglyceride levels.
• Cinnamon. Cinnamon has a powerful ability to lower blood sugar levels and improve sensitivity to insulin. Researchers have found that cinnamon cut cholesterol by about 18% and blood sugar levels by 24%.
• Fish Oil. The supplements increase levels of a hormone called adiponectin that's linked to insulin sensitivity, and can reduce triglyceride levels and raising HDL cholesterol levels.
• Magnesium. An essential nutrient, which can help regulate blood pressure, and regulate insulin sensitivity. Researchers have even found a link between higher magnesium intake, lower rates of insulin resistance, and diabetes.
What Foods To Start Avoiding for Diabetes
Just as important as loading your plate up with healthy whole foods is limiting foods that can spike your blood sugar levels. Here are some foods on the diabetic and pre-diabetes food list that you should avoid:
Avoid Grains Like:
Bread, pasta, cereal, popcorn, protein bars, granola.
Avoid Starchy Veggies Like:
Peas, white potatoes, yams, corn, butternut squash, sweet potatoes.
Avoid Snack Foods Like:
Baked goods like cookies and cakes, candy, crackers, sweets like chocolate, chips, popcorn, dried fruit, canned fruit in syrup, sweetened or flavored nuts, like honey-roasted or spicy.
Avoid Meat & Poultry Like:
Hot dogs, sausages and pepperoni, beef jerky, bacon.
Avoid Oils Like:
Remove hydrogenated, rancid oils from your diet, including vegetable oil, soybean oil, cottonseed oil and canola oil.
Avoid Drinks Like:
Sodas, sport and energy drinks, juice, sweetened tea, sweetened fizzy drinks, flavored or sweetened coffee, alcoholic drinks, fresh juices that are part of fad cleanses, sweetened protein shakes or smoothies.
You Can Do THIS!
While shaking up your diet can seem scary as a diabetic, it can be well worth it.
Certain foods, like high amounts of sugar and types of carbs, negatively affect your blood sugar levels, cause inflammation and trigger immune responses. You can reverse types 2 diabetes naturally by reducing these foods, and while type 1 diabetes is rarely reversed, the right dietary changes can see major improvements in blood sugar levels and can often reduce a person’s dependence on insulin and medications.
To achieve this, eat a low-processed, anti-inflammatory diet that includes protein foods, healthy fats and high-fiber low starch foods.
And… with diabetes of the rise, more than 30 million people including children (nearly 10 percent of the population) having diabetes in the U.S, following my diabetic eating plan can reduce this ridiculously high number and give millions of people back their health, including you or anyone you know with pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes.
Wellness and physical well being is a powerful thing that everyone deserves to work towards, have, and achieve. I feel so passionate about this - I wish I could help everyone see the dangers of excessive sugar, see the wonders of the right healing foods and steps and share the tools everyone needs to heal from a bad diet!
But at least you’ve made it here, and hopefully by now are ready to take steps to improve your health. Oh… and I want to help!
I’ve put together a FREE great bundle for you! If you want to balance your blood sugar and see healing results quickly, then grab my 3-Day Diabetes Healing Meal-Plan with a Diabetes-Fighting Foods Shopping List, to incorporate those healthy, diabetes-fighting foods into your diet. I’ve included my FREE Ultimate Guide to Crushing Your Sugar Cravings, which will help you start removing processed carbs and sugar form your diet easily and helping you effortlessly break your sugar reliance/addiction for good with help + support. Best of all NO food deprivation included. We’re not dieting, we’re healing.
Make sure to consult your doctor before any major diet changes!