Live a Healthy Life - Foods for Diabetic

I love to eat sweet foods, candies, cakes, ice cream and of course chocolates., it makes me feel calm and relax whenever I feel upset and down. Its actually a weird feeling though that's exactly how I feel whenever I used to eat sweets.

But how about the people whose suffering from diabetes? Are they able to enjoy and can eat the same foods as we were eating? Below are the list of foods that a diabetes should avoid and foods to eat.

Food To Avoid
* Foods High with Sugar
Foods such sugar, artificial sweeteners, including honey were obviously needed to avoid. Though you don't need to worry that you cannot enjoy the foods you are usually eat and drink such as coffee, there is one sweetener that is allowed with them, the stevia commonly known as sweet leaf or sugar leaf.
> Chocolates including the so called- sugar free types. But if you really can't take it to eat, it is recommended to eat the Continental dark chocolate with 70% or more cocoa solids.

* Starchy Vegetables
All vegetables that is high in starch such as beans, carrots, peas, specially the parsnips and potatoes, it is better that you go easy with this foods. Also with starchy carbohydrate foods like bread and chapatti rice.

* Fruits
Not all fruits are bad for diabetic people there were only some such as banana, grapes, strawberries, and mangoes.



Foods to Eat
* Foods High in Fiber
This includes cereal, nuts, fruits, seeds and certain vegetables. Foods high in fiber is good because its reduces cholesterol and glucose level in our body. It also means more chromium, which is very helpful in the treatment of diabetes.

* Sea Foods
All types of sea foods can were safe whether it could be boiled, steamed, baked or grilled, fried is not recommended.

February 15 ,2010

88DB Philippines