Try These Fantastically Healthy Foods For Diabetics
When you think of managing blood sugar, odds are you obsess over everything you can't have.
While it's certainly important to limit no-no ingredients (like white, refined breads and pastas and fried, fatty, processed foods), it's just as crucial to pay attention to what you should eat. We suggest you start here.
These are some things you need to check
glucose
diabetes symptoms
hypoglycemia
normal blood sugar level
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Numerous nutrition and diabetes experts singled out these power foods because they're packed with the four healthy nutrients (fiber, omega-3s, calcium, and vitamin D), and they're exceptionally versatile, so you can use them in recipes, as add-ons to meals, or stand-alone snacks.
1. Beans
Beans have more to boast about than being high in fiber (plant compounds that help you feel full, steady blood sugar, and even lower cholesterol; a half cup of black beans delivers more than 7 grams). They're a not-too-shabby source of calcium, a mineral that research shows can help burn body fat. In ½ cup of white beans, you'll get almost 100 mg of calcium—about 10% of your daily intake. Beans also make an excellent protein source; unlike other proteins Americans commonly eat (such as red meat), beans are low in saturated fat—the kind that gunks up arteries and can lead to heart disease.
How to eat them: Add them to salads, soups, chili, and more. There are so many different kinds of beans, you could conceivably have them every day for a week and not eat the same kind twice.
2. Dairy
You're not going to find a better source of calcium and vitamin D — a potent diabetes-quelling combination — than in dairy foods like milk, cottage cheese, and yogurt. One study found that women who consumed more than 1,200 mg of calcium and more than 800 IU of vitamin D a day were 33% less likely to develop diabetes than those taking in less of both nutrients. You can get these nutrients from other foods, but none combine them like dairy does. Stick to fat-free or low-fat versions of your favorite dairy foods — "regular" has a lot of saturated fat.
How to eat it: Drink milk with some meals instead of soda or sugary juices, have yogurt or cottage cheese as a snack or dessert, and use milk to make oatmeal or thicken certain soups.
