A GOOD READ. A MESSAGE FROM OUR CERTIFIED DIABETES EDUCATOR*****************Charlee Kimball Deb, I have no idea what meds you are on, so it is hard to help. Here is what I teach........you need 7 cups of vegetables a day. Your body does not make all the enzymes it needs to process your food, and we get the enzymes we need from vegetables. You need good fats. These are flax seed oils, nuts such as walnuts and almonds, avocados, and Extra Virgin Olive oil. You have to make an ...effort to get the bad fats out of your diet. Bad fats are trans fats (ingredient list will have "hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated" ), all plant based/vegetable oils such as soybean, canola, safflower, sunflower, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, rapeseed, walnut, palm oil, peanut etc. These are not just the oils that you can buy to cook with, but are in just about every processed food. You have to cut out the refined grains. Just about every type of bread on the grocery shelf is "refined" and so is all that flour you buy. And finally, you have to learn the names of sugar and how food manufacturers try and fool you. "sugar free" only means it does not contain table sugar. Honey, molasses, agave, dextrose, lactose, sucrose, fructose...there are about 50 different names for sugar. And finally High Fructose Corn Syrup is horrible and so damaging to our bodies. You have to get rid of this from your diet. You will find it in regular sodas, BBQ sauce,salad dressings, peanut butter, cereals, miracle whip, fruit juice, ice cream, yogurt...all kinds of things. Then keep your carbs to about 100 grams per day. If you focus on REAL food of lots of vegetables and lean meats with some good fat, you will find that you do much, much better. Shop the parameter of the grocery store and avoid premade foods. Shop the isles only for a few select items.
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