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Diabetes Nutrition Part 1 Part 1 of a 2 part series looking at diabetes nutrition, the role in which having a healthy balanced diet can have on controlling diabetes and also key pointers in helping you achieve a healthy balanced diet. Part 1 | Part 2 In the past a relatively strict diabetic diet, particularly one of a controlled level of carbohydrates may have been suggested, but nowadays a regular healthy balanced diet is thought to be the best diet. As more is now known about diabetes and health and diet in general, it was eventually found by aiming for healthy living full-stop, rather than simply looking at controlling one aspect of diabetes (carbohydrates), would be far more beneficial all around. The benefits of this new approach are by encouraging people to take responsibility for their overall health, the symptoms of diabetes become much easier to control as a result. So in the past what may have been known as a diabetic diet has given way to what anybody would call a healthy balanced diet. There are two important points to be understood here:
As many people, typically those diagnosed of Type 2 Diabetes, tend to be overweight, rather than simply focusing on controlling carbohydrates as things used to be in the past, by controlling fat and protein intake also, more of a balance is achieved. By taking this approach, and having a balanced diet, people will tend to lose weight and be healthier in general. Therefore the whole point of working to control and limit the many negative affects diabetes has on health in general aren't invalidated as they would be as other areas of the diet and lifestyle continue to have negative impacts. This is why a change in thought towards diabetes nutrition has since been affected. In the next article we'll look at the key points of a healthy balanced diet and give some practical advice applicable to the ‘real world'. Part 1 | Part 2 |