1800 Diabetic Diet Information

This diet is low in carbohydrates, which are the main sources of glucose. Eliminate some of the bad refined carbs and replace them with good natural carbs.

The 1800 calorie diabetic diet is based on limiting your daily food consumption to one thousand, eight hundred calories. These calories will come from meats, vegetables, fruits and some grains but not too many.

This is a low carbohydrate diet that restricts intake of refined carbs like white flour and sugar.

Refined carbohydrates are the main source of glucose in your blood. This “blood sugar” is what gives your body energy. Too much of these carbohydrates can equal too much blood sugar. That makes perfect sense doesn't it?

Following the 1800 diabetic diet and restricting refined carb intake and increasing exercise will both lower your body’s glucose production and increase your body’s burning of stored glucose energy.

The idea is to stop adding so much glucose to the blood sugar and to get to work burning up energy with walking, biking, hiking, playing golf, tennis, Jazzercise, dancing, jogging, pedaling one of those recumbent exercise bikes in your living room... anything to raise your heartbeat.

Many people with diabetes sometimes drink gallons of sugary sodas, eat a lot of sugary carbs and white flour... and get little if any regular exercise. Talk to your doctor about cutting back on processed food carbohydrates and increasing your exercise activity while following a healthy diabetic diet.

Food exchanges make it easier to follow diabetic diets. Most fruits, for example, have similar amounts of carbs and calories to each other. You can substitute a banana for an apple or a half cup of orange juice for a serving of cantaloupe.

Vegetables are natural low carb foods and are slow to break down in your system. One cup raw or one half cup of cooked vegetables has only about 5 grams of carbohydrates.

Vegetables are rich in vitamins. A carrot has over 10,000 units of beta carotene which your body converts to vitamin A as needed.

Empty carb foods, such as a donut, are higher in carbs, the refined carbs break down fast and cause a spike in blood sugar, and they offer little if any vitamin or nutritional value. So you are soon hungry again. In fact you may feel starved and undernourished as you gain weight. Amazingly unfair, but true.

Try to get your carbs from foods that are low on the glycemic index. What is the glycemic index (GI)? It is a ranking of carbohydrate foods based upon how they effect your blood sugar. Not all carbs are created equal. Some carbs raise your blood sugar levels more than others.

Some of the foods you may want to eat less of on diabetic diets are those made of high glycemic index carbohydrates. These include white bread, bagels, potatoes, corn, white rice, canned fruit in sweet syrup, donuts, cakes, cookies, pasta, rice cakes, etc.

Low glycemic index foods include vegetables, oranges, apples, berries, peaches, grapes, milk, yogurt, pinto beans, whole grain breads, high-fiber cereals, whole grain bran muffins, even a little chocolate once in a while.

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