3 Healthy Diets for Diabetes Patients and Prediabetics
There’s no one diet that fits all. This is why there’s an abundance of various diets out there that deliver different results. The question is—which one is sustainable for you? How can you shift your health?
This blog will answer the infamous question—what to eat when you’ve been diagnosed with Diabetes or Metabolic Syndrome?
Nutrition is the core pillar of how you shift your health. Yet it’s also a complex question to answer, even after the tons of research done about it already.
As you keep reading, you will learn about the science behind:
Let’s dive right into it!
The Plant-based Diet
A plant-based diet consists of foods that are only obtained from plants. It includes everything from fruits and vegetables, whole grains and legumes, to nuts, seeds, and beans.
No animal-sourced or processed foods. Going on a plant-based diet is not equivalent to going vegan.
This diet has been a part of the nutritional world and has been studied extensively in the field of nutritional sciences since the 1940s.
Why should you go on a plant-based diet?
All in all, plant-based diets are designed to get to the root cause of the disease and shift your health on a diet-and-lifestyle level.
When causality is treated with plant-based nutrition there is:
And the health benefits improve with time.
If you have been eating predominantly the Standard American Diet (SAD), the easiest transition into a healthy lifestyle with a safer diet is going plant-based.
Foods included:
Foods to avoid:
Loopholes in the Plant-based Diet
Even though there are numerous benefits to the plant-based diet, people still tend to fail in seeing results or sticking to it.
Especially for diabetics, the transformation is slow because when you have high insulin resistance, getting the blood sugar down at the start is very difficult and takes a long time.
Reasons:
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