To put it simply, a Diabetes Diet Plan is a deliberate eating plan that will help you control your blood sugar levels. It involves eating a variety of the recommended healthy foods in moderate amounts and sticking to regular meal times. Because an excess in carbohydrate and fat intake sends your blood sugar to alarming levels, the diet should consistently make up of vegetables, fruits and whole grains.

Meal planning

The key here is consistency and making informed food choices.

• Your meal plan should consistently comprise of a variety of healthy foods (low in carbohydrates and fats). This makes sense because the more you vary your food especially carbohydrates the harder it is to keep track of your blood sugar levels.
• Follow an established eating routine. Read food labels and count your carbohydrate and fat intake. Use Food Exchange Lists.
• Plan your meals well and stick to it.

Having your doctor and dietitian involved

The shift to a healthy diet plan from your normal carefree eating habit is by no means easy. The transition does not happen over night but your doctor and dietitian can advice you on ways to keep yourself on track. For instance, a dietitian can advice you on how to keep yourself from overeating, losing the excess weight and making better food choices.

Having your peers involved

Because it is customary for people to eat meals with their peers, it would be wise to inform your family and friends of your Diet Plan. This knowledge will guide them in making future meals with you that both accommodate your Diet Plan and their own personal tastes.

Eating out doesn’t have to be a problem

The prospect of eating out is usually filled with joy and anticipation. For diabetics on a diet plan, this is often met with dread and a sense of inevitable helplessness. It doesn’t have to be this way. In fact, you can incorporate restaurant menus into your Diet Plan.

• First of all, when eating out, look over their menus carefully and if possible, ask a restaurant staff about the ingredients, carbohydrate and fat content in the foods and drinks they prepare.
• Secondly, pay attention to their serving sizes and extra side dishes. Moderation is the key.
• Thirdly, make healthier food substitutions. For example, instead of having a regular salad dressing, bypass it or have the low-fat variety.
• Last but not the least; remember to stick to the ground rules of your diet plan and your target blood sugar level.

Did you know that Diabetes is a disease that is caused by an over exhausted pancreas, which is trying to overproduce enzymes for the digestive process? It is the job of the pancreas to produce enzymes so that the food source you have consumed is properly broken down and digested. That is its first and foremost function.

Unfortunately our body only produces a certain amount of enzymes naturally, and furthermore the ability to produce enzymes decreases eight to ten percent every ten years of our life. By the time we are age fifty we will have lost fifty percent of our body’s natural ability to produce enzymes. We destroy all enzymes that are in our fruits and vegetables once they are irradiated for shipment purposes. By heating, baking, boiling, microwaving, we destroy the enzymes in all our food sources.

So that is the first job of the pancreas, the second is to produce insulin, and that is where the problem with diabetes begins. Insulin is not being properly produced or produced at all because the pancreas is overloaded and stressed out from producing enzymes that the body requires so badly. When the pancreas is stressed it over inflates to the point where it deteriorates and weakens further making it more inefficient in trying to produce enzymes and insulin. The best way to deal with diabetes is to take stress off the organs and that begins with taking a broad spectrum digestive enzyme product daily. Make sure that you have mineral activators for those enzymes within that capsule. In order to activate those enzymes it requires certain minerals, so make sure you have a quality enzyme product. Capsules by the way are the only form enzymes will be efficient, tablets on the other hand are inefficient as the enzymes are destroyed by the heat process that takes place while molding that tablet.

To take the strain of digestion off the pancreas. First we include enzymes in the diet. That will lower the amount of enzymes the pancreas has to make. Then we lower the strain of digestion even more, let’s add a juicing diet. Notice I didn’t say a ‘juice’ diet. Juice from the supermarket is not the same as whole fruits and vegetables freshly juiced. Using organic fruits and vegetables makes it even better.

An expert in enzymes is Mr. Ron Schneider who specializes in the field of Immunoenzymology and Darkfield Phase Contrast Microscopy. After many years of studying alternative and holistic medicine, he focused on research with enzymes. In 2001 Mr. Schneider was nominated for the Nobel Prize in science and medicine by the Bill Clinton Administration for the formulation of his highly effective formulation of plant enzymes, the worlds most premium enzymes available today.

The number of people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes has really skyrocketed over the past twenty years.? Add to that the number who are prediabetic and those walking around who have no idea they will be diagnosed in the years to come.? At least 50% remain undiagnosed!? Research shows one in four has a disturbance in how their body metabolizes sugar.

Whilst we are aware that genetics and obesity plays a big role in the rise of diabetes some drugs including prescripton drugs, can actually induce this condition in otherwise normal people.

Known offenders include:

• steroids
• birth control pill
• diuretics
• beta blockers

It is not unusual for impaired glucose tolerance to develop during the treatment of hypertension, and the condition does not go away when treatment is discontinued.?Other drugs can either increase blood sugar levels or decrease them.? Leading offenders that diabetics should avoid include:

Drugs that lower blood-sugars:

• Salicylates (Aspirin), and acetaminophen (paracetamol) or Panadol, can both lower your levels, especially if taken in large doses
• Phenylbutazone (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory)
• Ethanol (in alcoholic drinks) especially when taken without food
• Sulfonamide antibiotics
• Coumarin anticoagulant
• Trimethoprim (used for urinary tract infections)

Drugs that increase your blood-sugars:

• Caffeine in large quantities
• Corticosteroids such as prednisone, are used to block autoimmune conditions.? Even when applied topically it increases your levels
• Ephedrine
• Estrogen when the dose is high, modern oral contraceptives are usually not a problem
• Frusemide and thiazide diuretics often raise the glucose by causing a loss of potassium
• Lithium
• Nicotinic acid in large doses.? Used to lower cholesterol can bring out a hyperglycemic reaction
• Phenytoin or Dilantin, a drug used for seizures, blocks insulin release
• Rifampin (used in the treatment of tuberculosis)
• Sugar containing medications
• Thyroid hormone in elevated levels, raises blood glucose by reducing insulin from the pancreas

If you find a sudden change in your blood sugar levels and you have started a new medication, don’t hesitate to check with your health care provider.

Looking after yourself and your type 2 diabetes is your show, so know which drugs affect your blood sugars levels, find a diet that works for you, lose weight, and increase your physical activity.? You are the CEO of your body!