By eating foods that lower your blood sugar you can reverse diabetes. To achieve this you need to reduce the content of carbohydrate in your diet, this is not as hard as it sounds, you simply need to make sure your diet is mainly based on low GI foods. You are probably eating most of these foods now, and if you aren’t, you will only need to adjust your diet slightly to suit your individual needs. Some of these foods that have low GI are:

Meat Fish Chicken Vegetables Eggs Salads

How fast a type of food reacts to the rise in your blood sugar is measured by GI. If your blood sugar levels are too high you will need to reduce the amount carbohydrate in your diet, this will allow you to reverse diabetes. Reading the food labels is vital as some products claim they are low in GI when in fact they are not.

Here are some common foods that are low in GI:

* Brown Rice * Peas * Red Lentils * Spaghetti * Kidney Beans * Barley * Chickpeas * Quinoa * Peach * Apples * Banana * Sweet Potato * Strawberries * Carrot

Plant foods contain carbohydrate and they include fruits, vegetables, legumes, and cereal grains. Carbohydrate is your main source of energy, so once it breaks down in your stomach, it releases glucose into your bloodstream. By maintaining three regular meals each day you will be able to manage your blood glucose and ensuring that you contain enough carbohydrates that gives you energy that suits your own individual needs. This is vital to your health as it will prevent your blood glucose levels rising and falling dramatically.

Just by adding unprocessed plant foods into your diet you can achieve the optimal health benefits and be able to lower your blood sugar adequately. There are some foods that you should avoid and they are, fried foods, fats, processed foods and sweets. By adjusting your amount of fruits and vegetables in their raw state to 60% or better you will experience overall general good health as well as helping to lower your blood sugar.

The best diet we can give our bodies contains ingredients that are all natural, plant-based foods that contain little or no animal products as well as foods that are unrefined, by adding this into your daily diet you will be able to lower your blood sugar and also achieve the ultimate goal, which is reversing your diabetes.

Sue Kennedy is the author of Defeat Diabetes Now. Her site is jam packed with information that can help you with your diabetes. Sue can help you to control and manage your diabetes and achieve optimum health starting today.

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