DIABETIC RECIPE TIPS 

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Diabetes diet recipe is the right one; that one you need when you plan your meals. At the same time, it will help in keeping your blood sugar to normal levels. It may be not an easy task for you.

However, you may follow your recipes for diabetes, and have all your favorite foods with a little bit change.

- Tip No. 1 - Reduce the consumption of table sugar. It is a natural sugar and can be digested quickly and raise levels of sugar in the blood.  Artificial sweetener (saccharin or aspartame) can be substitutes if you love sugar; however, be careful of their side effects.

- Tip No. 2 - Replace regular cola or other drinks with soft diet drinks as they do not have the amount of sugar one common drink has.

- Tip No. 3 - Avoid jam, jelly, candy, gelatin, pies, cakes, syrups as they increase your blood glucose remarkably quickly. If you decide to go for  these kinds of foods, select the diabetic onesor can prepare some of them following the diabetic recipes.

- Tip No. 4 - When it comes to honey, contradictions come out.  It is remarkably healthy because contains valuable nutrients for your body. On the other hand, the sugar component of honey can raise your blood glucose. In the Mediterranean region, folk people use to take one teaspoon (or tablespoon for young) of honey early in the morning together with a spoonful of olive oil to get the right energy start for the day (with no high blood sugar worries).

- Tip No. 5 - The most recommended meat choices are poultry (especially chicken breast or turkey), fish, and lean mean (for red-meat lovers).

- Tip No. 6 - Be careful on cooking methods. The best ones are roasting, boiling, baking or grilling instead of pan-frying.  Furthermore, do not add fat to your dishes, use only vegetable oils (the best is olive oil).

- Tip No. 7 - Stay away from sauces or gravies, margarine (except those fortified with plant-sterol), butter, Â salad dressings, lard, bacon, sausage, high-fat dairy products (cream, certain types of cheese, ice-cream) for their high fat content.

When choosing the best diabetes diet recipe suited to your teeth, remember that is not enough.

Thus, you need to consider other healthy, diabetic choices along.

 

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