THE WORLD OF TYPE 2 DIABETES-your food plan 1(part 4)

Here are the best way to make a difference to diabetes with diet.If a 100 per cent diet change sounds like a tall order, make it more approchable.You don’t need to commit forever, just give it three weeks.During that time, do it 100 per cent and you will get a sense of what the diet will do while still keeping your options open:

1*KEEP VEGETABLE OIL TO A MINIMUM-These oils are high-calorie fats.Use lemon juice and balsamic vinegar on salads, avoid fried foods, use a spray dispenser to mist your pan with oil, use non-stick pans, steam your vegetables, use low fat soya milk in tea and coffee, and choose food labelled as containing less than 10 per cent fat.

2*REDUCE ANIMAL PRODUCTS-This reduces your intake of animal fat and cholesterol, and I recommend cutting out white meat, fish and diary as well as red meat.Even lean chicken derives 23 per cent of its calories from fat, much of  it the saturated kind that raises cholesterol.Fish varies;some contains’good omega 3 fats, between 15 per cent and 30 per cent of fish fat is saturated too.Dairy products contain saturated fat and milk sugar( lactose).Star

t eating beans, lentils, unansweetened soya milk,veggie burgers and vegetables.

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  • Emeka Peter Nwanne

    Are these foods available in Nigeria?

    • damfs99@yahoo.com

      yes they are available in Nigeria.Infact more than anywhere in the world except china,thailand.Just go to market especially vegetable market.HOWEVER you dont even need to go far as beans,vegetable(of ny kind),rice or any grains rather than refined kinds are good source of a good food plan.fruits such as pears may be hard to find but apples,banana and pawpaw are great fruiys.but avoid pineapple and water melon.I hope i have answered your question.

    • damfs99@yahoo.com

      yes they are available in Nigeria.Infact more than anywhere in the world except china,thailand.Just go to market especially vegetable market.HOWEVER you dont even need to go far as beans,vegetable(of any kind),rice or any grains rather than refined kinds are good source of a good food plan.fruits such as pears may be hard to find but apples,banana and pawpaw are great fruits.But avoid pineapple and water melon.I hope I have answered your question.