Whatever your taste, you can keep your blood sugar in check. By Lara Rondinelli, RD, LDN, CDE Last month we learned about healthier choices when eating fast food, now it's time to learn about healthy eating at different types of restaurants. Eating out can often bring stress, temptation, and high blood glucose levels for people with diabetes - so you need to learn the best approach for you when stepping into a restaurant. We already [...]
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Stay Away from These Foods to Keep Your Blood Sugar in Check Certain foods can send your blood sugar level on a roller coaster, with insulin rushing to keep up. The good news is, while there are some surprises, most of these foods fall under the same category: processed food, such as white flour and sugar. "Refined flours and sugar cause huge spikes in insulin and get absorbed quickly, which causes problems, " says Mark Hyman, author [...]
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At least keep the sugary sweets and high carb foods out of the house, but he just buys them himself to bring home or eats them at work. At least if we're shopping together and he asks if I want ______ I can say "If it's not in the house, we won't eat it." Good luck on your diet but if you're doing it to lose weight rather than just to eat healthier, don't forget you need to excercise too. (I know, it's a dirty word but I had to say [...]
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If you have type 2 diabetes,here are easy tips and tricks to help get blood sugar under control. Credit: Getty Images 1 of 13 Small goals make a big difference By Eric Metcalf When it comes to type 2 diabetes,you need diet and exercise goals that encourage you to succeednot ones that set you up to fail,says Ann Goebel-Fabbri,PhD,a psychologist and investigator at the Joslin Diabetes Center,in Boston. "I think goals have to be small and [...]
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