Diet guidelines for type 2 diabetes.








There are countless varied opinions on the best approach to controlling and reversing type 2 diabetes with diet. They all offer convincing models and most of them seem to contradict one another to a certain extent. They all have one thing in common, the management of blood sugar and glucose levels. Diet Guidelines play a large part for type 2 diabetes.

With a healthy non diabetic person a normal glucose level after eating will stay consistently the same, about 5.5 mm or around 100mg/dl give or take a fraction. Yet with a type 2 diabetic, the sky can quite literally be the limit. Depending on hoe advanced the individuals condition is, what was eaten and at what time of day.

As with any diet, your meals should be well balanced and varied. Ultimately, your diet, as well as everyone elses (diabetic or otherwise) should be a diet to prevent and reverse type 2 diabetes in the first place but alas, one can never live in a perfect world.

Since we are on the subject of diet guidlines for type 2 diabetics, let us stick to the task at hand. More and more attention is being aimed toward the fact of one being able to control type 2 diabetes with diet alone.

Foods that raise Glucose Levels

  • All sugars, sucrose, fructose or otherwise.
  • Starchy foods, rice, pasta, potatoes, semolina.
  • All sorts of bread and cake products.
  • Pulses, legumes, nuts. These hit the sugar levels at a much slower rate due to their glycemic index.
  • Cereals, grains, oats etc
  • Fruit, with some exceptions, lemons, limes, raspberries.
    The tart tasting fruits are much lower in sugar and will
    have less effect on your blood sugar levels.

This list is in no way exhaustive and I could quite easily fill page after page with the types of foods to keep vigilance over. The items above are the worst of a bad bunch with the last two bullet points hammering your blood glucose levels far less than the other three, due to their glycemic index

Type 2 diabetes meal times.

This is an all important factor in helping to control the problem. It is unwise to eat a large meal based largely on carbohydrates, period but to go one step further and eat late at night is positively insane. For one:

  • Your body will have slowed its metabolism down, since it no longer needs to keep itself in a state of prolonged activity.
  • Not only this but your body will not burn off the carbohydrates half as effectively, sitting on the couch as it would stacking palettes at the factory. (Or filing last months invoices for that matter)

A balanced diabetic meal.

The science behind this is not as they say (Rocket Science). Yet some people make far more out of this than they really need to. If in doubt:

  • Stick to a protein breakfast rather than one based around starchy carbohydrates.
  • More protein and or salad for lunch time.
  • Green veg, salad, protein for dinner

That sounds fairly uninteresting and extemely limited but with a little reading up on different recipes, there is no end to what one can cook up.

While medical professionals are often overly skeptical, for fear of negative results. One should not believe everything they have to say. After all, there opinion is but one. Look on the internet for countless testimonials of people who dedicated themselves to their own cure.

One particular individual who looks as if he has made quite a profitable revenue from his experience is The Diabetic warrior. Reading his testimonial will help inspire you and realize this isn't some crack pot dream but rather a very real process which one can apply to aheive a healtier life.

Another example is a lady called Julia Hanf, who's life was turned upside down with this terrible disease. Starting on her wedding night! Through dilligence and a stong desire to conquer her loved one's ailment, she went on to win the battle against type 2 diabetes.