Diabetic Food Pyramid and Diet Plan

The food you eat has a direct impact on your blood glucose levels, body fat, and overall health. That is why it is so important for diabetics to eat according to the best diabetes diet plan possible. As a diabetic you have special diet needs, and you need to pay special attention to what you put into your body.

Food is a subject of great debate and controversy, with lots of monetary interests at stake. Unfortunately, these interests have a dramatic influence on our health and foods we eat. One such example is the food pyramid. We all know the pyramid picture that represents how much of which food groups we should be eating for optimum health.

The problem is the existing USDA food pyramid recommendations as well as most other diabetic food pyramids that exists is that they are misguided.

We’ve been eating this way for the last few decades and the results are truly disastrous. Changing those recommendations on the official level is not easy, as the various interest groups of food producers will surely lobby against it. That is why it is imperative for each individual to get educated and adopt the new food pyramid for best possible health. This applies to all of us, and especially to people who already suffer from chronic disease, such as diabetes.

The healthy food pyramid emphasizes the healthiest foods: fresh vegetables, greens and fruits.

USDA Food Pyramid and Diabetic Food Pyramid

Whole grains are an important food group, however, most grains that we eat today are not healthy! The USDA food pyramid and the recommended daily allowances still mostly ignore the difference between whole and refined plant foods. White breads, pastas, processed cereals are not ideal food choices, especially for people who already experience health problems, such as high blood sugar. Additionally, wheat causes allergies that can go undetected, so for many people eliminating wheat altogether may be a good solution. These foods should be eliminated, and replaced with whole grains, such as whole wheat, whole grain cereals, barley, oats, quinoa, brown rice, etc.

The consumption of animal protein products should be limited. Some experts recommend going even further and eliminating them altogether, but of course, going vegetarian may not be for everyone. Buying organic meats, that is hormone free and antibiotic free is important. Ideally, a vegetarian diet is best, but even reducing animal protein to 2-3 times a week is going to produce good results for your health.

The next important group that is under-valued is fruits. People are afraid that eating too much fruits will cause blood sugar problems, but this fear is totally ungrounded. Fresh fruits eaten raw – not processed – are some of the healthiest foods for humans. Even people with diabetes should not be afraid to eat fruits, provided their diet is also LOW IN FAT. Too much fat causes problems with glucose absorption into the cells.

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Diabetes is considered to be an incurable disease by most doctors.

What does that really mean to you as a patient?

This means that modern medicine provides no permanent cure for diabetes.

However, the line between what is curable and what is incurable is not as clear as the modern medicine would like us to believe.

For example, let's consider diabetes. It is commonly considered an incurable disease, meaning that patients need to learn to "live with the disease" using the prescription medications to control their blood sugar levels.

What the doctors typically will not tell their patients is that diabetes can in fact be reversed by making necessary improvements to one's diet and lifestyle - i.e. by following the science of healthy living. Of course, if you go back to your unhealthy habits, the diabetes will likely be back, as well as a host of other health problems that are lifestyle-related.

This is a message that is not very optimistic.

OK, so living with diabetes may not be so bad, but what about being completely diabetes free? Is that possible?

So, instead on constantly talking about what's curable and what's not, we should be talking more about what is preventable and reversible. We should take responsibility for our own health!

You don’t hear the media or doctors or pharmaceutical companies (!) talk about this very often.

Talking about preventing or curing diabetes is often referred to as quackery or empty promises.

That is why I’m always excited to read books and articles that provide a much more optimistic view on this subject, while being based on sound scientific research. And this is what I want to present to you – some research from an excellent book “The China Study” that I highly recommend for anyone living with diabetes (or with any other chronic ailment that is caused by our lifestyle and diet).

Recommended Reading: “The China Study”

The fact is that there is no research that links diabetes to one specific food that you eat or one specific thing that you do.

However, there is ABUNDANT evidence that demonstrates that by making some simple (although not always easy in our Western culture) changes to our lifestyle and eating habits, you will most likely prevent diabetes (and various other diseases) and even get rid of diabetes or pre-diabetes completely, if you are currently suffering from it.

The book presents plenty of data that clearly demonstrates what I’m talking about:

Like most chronic diseases, diabetes is found more frequently in some areas of our globe than in others. This fact has been well documented. It has also been demonstrated that the populations with lower rates of diabetic disease, consume a vastly different diet from what is eaten by populations with high rate of diabetes.

Almost seventy years ago, H.P Himsworth compiled all the existing research in a report comparing diets and diabetes rates in six countries. What he found was that some cultures were consuming high-fat diets, while others had diets high in carbohydrates. These fat versus carbohydrate consumption patters were the result of animal versus plant food consumption.

The compilation of data from these six counties – including the U.S., Holland, England, Scotland, Italy and Japan – clearly showed that as unrefined carbohydrate intake goes up and fat intake goes down, the number of deaths from diabetes sharply drops from 20.4 to 2.9 per 100,000 people.

The conclusion?

A high-carbohydrate (unrefined carbohydrate, not the processed carbs, like white flour), low-fat diet – a natural, unprocessed plant-based diet – may help to prevent diabetes.

Some other studies:

- The same researchers enlarged their study to eleven countries in Central and South America and Asia. The strongest association they found with diabetes was excess weight. Populations eating the most “Western” type of diet also had the highest cholesterol levels, which in turn was strongly associated with the rate of diabetes.

However, if you consider that these simple changes can prevent or even cure a condition that leads to heart disease, stroke, blindness, or amputation, a condition that might require you to take medications or inject insulin into your body every day for the rest of your life – the choice is simple.

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Buy the book:

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As you can see getting your blood glucose back to normal levels and keeping it there is not complicated. So get started right as soon as possible with these easy simple steps.

Because you are worth it!

For more studies, read The China Study.

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