Healthy Eating Recipe - Type 2 Diabetes

Currently doctors know that high blood glucose levels accelerate aging thus damage to the eyes, kidneys and heart, leading up to complications with kidney's, blindness and heart disease. Type 2 diabetics are especially prone to these complications with their elevated sugar levels. Prescribing insulin therapy to get a persons blood glucose levels down is the common practice. Problems occur when the extra insulin accelerates atherosclerosis, leading to heart attacks or weight gain. The weight gain then accelerates the diabetes even further.
The American Diabetes Association, nutritionist and physicians give scary advice to the diabetic patient. They speak of weight loss and lowering cholesterol levels. Diets they recommend are less than effective at accomplishing significant weight loss or sustaining an ideal weight, all in all these recommendations don't work over the long run. Diabetes care should focus on blood glucose control, monitoring blood glucose levels to determine when a change in insulin level dosages are needed and when a glucose lowering med may be warranted.
The best diet for your health and long life oddly enough is the best diet for diabetics. A diet that has lots of nutrients per calorie is recommended as well as nutritional supplements. Eat a diet consisting of natural foods like green vegetables, onions, beans of any type, eggplant, mushrooms, garlic from cloves not in a jar, tomatoes (not canned ), raw nuts preferably unsalted and seeds (sunflower, pumpkin, sesame. etc,) and small amounts of fruit that's fresh, you can eat almost as much as you want with still losing excess weight. According to most doctors their diabetes patients find the pounds melt away and symptoms of there diabetes are reduced. Many web sites offer diet alternatives with most having special sections for recipes.
Try this dressing recipe on a salad with grilled skinless chicken cut into bite size pieces. Add your favorite lettuce type, raspberries (fresh), some sunflower seeds, nuts, carrots, red beans washed and drained and top with a little grated Parmesan cheese.
1. 1 cup fat free yogurt, plain
2. Fresh raspberries' 1/2 cup or so
3. Table spoon red wine vinegar
4. 1 Teaspoon sugar substitute