what kind of foods lower you blood sugar?

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i am a diabetic and need to change my diet altogether. i had weighed 260lbs and within 2 weeks i have dropped 15lbs. they say it may disappear if i continue to drop weight. so i need to know what kinds of foods to continue to buy and prepare.

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Answer by Fridays
No food will actually lower blood sugar levels. However, exercise does, and helps overcome the insulin resistance found in type 2 diabetics.

Just eat healthy, low fat, measure your portions, and continue to exercise, all which will help you lose more weight.

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5 Responses to “what kind of foods lower you blood sugar?”

February 2nd, 2012 at 11:41 am

John W says:

All foods raise your glucose level, even proteins and fats though they raise it so slowly that we don’t count them.

However you can shift to lower glycemic index foods which release glucose more slowly. Many pre-diabetics and type 2 diabetics can reduce the glucose intake to levels they can handle with diet and exercise but lower glycemic index is a mixed blessing for those using bolus insulin, the lower numbered foods need less insulin but for longer periods of time, the only way to control the time of a bolus shot is by more injections or different insulin mixes. A pump user can program in an extended bolus for low glycemic foods. So it’s not always true to say low glycemic foods is good for a diabetic, it depends on what the diabetic needs to match their insulin.

Losing weight for a diabetic is the same as for anyone else, eat less than you burn. To lose weight, you inject less bolus shots, eat less food to match the bolus shot and increase your basal shot to keep your total daily dose the same.

February 2nd, 2012 at 11:56 am

TheOrange Evil says:

In response to Fridays, low fat will not lower blood sugar. We can agree to disagree on the health benefits of a low-fat diet, but dietary fat–on its own–does not affect blood sugar. You could drink a shot glass of pure fat cooking oil and your blood sugar would not go up. Now, if you mix fat with carbohydrate, the effect of the carbohydrate may be worse. For example, some diabetics, especially the Type 1 diabetics I know, experience worse blood sugar spikes when consuming fat with carbohydrate as opposed to just carbohydrate. Fat can also delay the impact of any food you eat on your blood sugar.

A low-carbohydrate diet often works best to control blood sugar in a Type 2. That means limiting or avoiding grains, rice, corn, potatoes, sugar, and even fruit. How low in carbohydrates should you go? There’s no set number for every diabetic. The only way to learn what food, carbohydrate count, and portion size raise your blood sugar the most is to test your blood sugar at home with a glucose meter. No matter what diet your doctor, dietitian or anyone on Yahoo Answers recommends, you can’t fly blind with diabetes. You absolutely HAVE to test to determine whether the diet is working.

I eat around 30 grams per day. My diet is mainly meat, cheese, eggs, non-starchy vegetables (broccoli, mushrooms, cauliflower, asparagus, for example), as well as some nuts and seeds. I do eat other low-carb dairy, like sour cream, cream cheese, and heavy cream in my coffee, but they do have natural sugars and so I count the carbohydrates just like I do with vegetables. They’re not totally “free” foods. I could control my blood sugar on 50-60 grams per day, but I find the weight loss stalls when I’m around that level. Also, I get even better blood sugar control on 30 grams per day. I’ve lost a little over 90 pounds as of this morning – took about a year. The ADA recommends 45-60 grams per MEAL, but I don’t really know any diabetic who’s not on insulin who can handle quite that many while achieving a good A1c.

Just a word of caution: diabetes never truly disappears, even with weight loss. Weight loss improves insulin resistance (when your cells are resistant to the insulin you make, so glucose can’t be removed from the blood as well, resulting in high blood sugar) and that makes blood sugar control easier. If you resume a normal western diet, one that is high in carbohydrates, your blood sugar will very likely be high. I argued with my doctor about this at my last appointment. She said my obesity caused the diabetes and thus the diabetes will probably go away when I lose all the weight. I said that weight loss will help my IR, but that I will always be diabetic and will never be able to stop testing and eating right. She actually raised her voice to me, claiming that she’s seen some of her patients “cured.” I responded, “If they’re cured, then they can eat an entire birthday cake without ever going into diabetic blood sugar range afterward.” She gave me a dirty look and yelled, “Why would you want to eat an entire birthday cake? Do you want to be fat again?” She completely missed the point or just didn’t want to admit it, which is that diabetes is never cured, only managed well. Many doctors just see diabetes from their perspective, which is prescribing meds. If you’re able to go off meds and become diet managed so that you never let your blood sugar go into diabetic range, they think you’re cured. You’re not. You’re the next best thing, though, which is working hard to mimic a non-diabetic’s blood sugar.

February 2nd, 2012 at 12:04 pm

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As others have said, there is no food that can do that.

However some suggestions that help “steady” your bloodsugar (in my experience) are:

Natural Peanut Butter

Whole wheat toast

eggs

stir fried vegetables (vegetables in general, but they taste really good stir fried)

tofu

beans

cinnamon

oatmeal

potatoes

green beans

tuna (tuna melts with lettuce or celery)

Corn tortillas

BROWN rice [definitely not white!]

whole wheat crackers

cheese (zero carbs)

Plain popcorn

quinoa

cucumbers (cucumber sandwiches are really good)

That’s all I can think for right now, but basically the lower the carb the better.

February 2nd, 2012 at 1:00 pm

Noccie says:

There are no foods to lower your blood sugar. A reduced calorie low carb diet will help you continue to loose weight. Exercise helps too. It is the weight loss and exercise that will actually lower your blood sugar. For the best help in creating a healthy diet, make arrangements to have a few sessions with a nutritionist.

February 2nd, 2012 at 1:18 pm

Ben Trolled says:

A low glycemic Index diet will help..
http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm

This table includes the glycemic index and glycemic load of more than 2,480 individual food items. Not all of them, however, are available in the United States. They represent a true international effort of testing around the world.

The glycemic index (GI) is a numerical system of measuring how much of a rise in circulating blood sugar a carbohydrate triggers–the higher the number, the greater the blood sugar response. So a low GI food will cause a small rise, while a high GI food will trigger a dramatic spike. A list of carbohydrates with their glycemic values is shown below. A GI is 70 or more is high, a GI of 56 to 69 inclusive is medium, and a GI of 55 or less is low.

The glycemic load (GL) is a relatively new way to assess the impact of carbohydrate consumption that takes the glycemic index into account, but gives a fuller picture than does glycemic index alone. A GI value tells you only how rapidly a particular carbohydrate turns into sugar. It doesn’t tell you how much of that carbohydrate is in a serving of a particular food. You need to know both things to understand a food’s effect on blood sugar. That is where glycemic load comes in. The carbohydrate in watermelon, for example, has a high GI. But there isn’t a lot of it, so watermelon’s glycemic load is relatively low. A GL of 20 or more is high, a GL of 11 to 19 inclusive is medium, and a GL of 10 or less is low.

Foods that have a low GL almost always have a low GI. Foods with an intermediate or high GL range from very low to very high GI.

Both GI and GL are listed here. The GI is of foods based on the glucose index–where glucose is set to equal 100. The other is the glycemic load, which is the glycemic index divided by 100 multiplied by its available carbohydrate content (i.e. carbohydrates minus fiber) in grams. (The “Serve size (g)” column is the serving size in grams for calculating the glycemic load; for simplicity of presentation I have left out an intermediate column that shows the available carbohydrates in the stated serving sizes.) Take, watermelon as an example of calculating glycemic load. Its glycemic index is pretty high, about 72. According to the calculations by the people at the University of Sydney’s Human Nutrition Unit, in a serving of 120 grams it has 6 grams of available carbohydrate per serving, so its glycemic load is pretty low, 72/100*6=4.32, rounded to 4.

There are 4 key steps to controlling glucose levels :
1) EXERCISE- Walking is fine but Nordic Walking is Great. Exercise also lowers Glucose levels , lowers Cholesterol and lowers Blood Pressure. Google it.Exercise is Non-Negotiable !!!Thats why it is Number 1 on the list.
2) Knowledge- http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/index.ph… This is a great site for info
3) Meds. Metformin to start. Never , ever take Actos or Avandia. That also goes for Onglazia and Januvia
4) Diet- A low carb diet is in order. I can’t count carbs so I use Mendosa’s Glycemic Index Diet. Great for the whole family. http://www.mendosa.com

Take care
Ben Trolled

Diet in Diabetes