Tea Diabetes Diet It’s easy but you need to know how to control carbs. How do you know what foods to eat? Maybe you like rice, pasta, grits, or other carbohydrate foods that need insulin to process these foods.

How much of the foods with carbohydrates or carbohydrates (CHO) can I eat? Well, that depends on whether you need to lose weight, gain weight, or maintain your weight.

I think the most prudent way to eat food you really enjoy, while not putting too much pressure on your pancreas to spit out insulin, is to eat in moderation. Diet for type 2 diabetes or Diabetes 2 the diet is basically the diet I’m referring to.

What I mean by sparingly is using the visual plate technique. This is a way of calculating your intake, as well as how many carbohydrates or carbohydrate foods you include with your meal.

So what does the visual plate technique mean? For a type 2 diabetes diet it means you look at your plate with your food on it. If all you see is rice, grits, or sweet foods as the bulk of your plate, then you are sorely mistaken. The diet for diabetes 2 contains a green leafy vegetable or salad, protein foods (eggs, meat, fish, cheese) and a smaller portion of carbohydrate vegetables or rice, pasta or any other carbohydrate.

Since I work as a visiting nurse, I try to explain to patients that it is not necessary to go to extremes. Diets for Diabetes no matter what culture and foods you like and that tastes great. It is important to watch your carbohydrate vegetables (peas, carrots, corn, snap peas, potatoes) and CHO foods (rice, pasta, and other carbohydrate foods) a little with each meal. The diabetes diet means more control over the CHOs you eat.

If you make up your mind and want peas and carrots, then eat a very small amount of rice or pasta. If you eat green leafy vegetables, you can eat more rice or pasta.

With the type 2 diabetes diet, protein foods do not raise blood sugar, so you can add more fish, eggs, meat, etc. to your meals. As long as your cholesterol isn’t too high (eggs and meats) and you’re not a kidney patient, there should be no reason why you can’t eat foods with extra protein. High protein foods in the diet for diabetes is that the protein contains its own natural fat which actually helps curb your appetite.

Whenever you eat a meal or snack, it should always include a small amount of protein that has its natural fat. Protein provides its own natural fat and tends to keep your blood sugar stable so it doesn’t spike and then crash immediately. That can happen if you have a piece of fruit and you don’t have protein. Also, eating just one piece of fruit can make you hungry. That’s where protein helps curb your appetite.

I also tell my patients not to drink any juice unless their blood sugar is low. It is better to eat the fruit than to drink the juice.

As always, you should check with your doctor before changing your current diet.