My son's doctor told me that he needs to
start eating less sugars, because of a genetic disorder he has.
Not exact matches
Even without
starting a new healthy
eating plan, most of us know that to be healthy, we need to
eat more fruits and vegetables and
eat less sugar, bad fats, and refined and processed foods.
Eating less sugar and carbs is a good
start to balancing blood
sugar but there are other tips that can help too:
As your cells become more sensitized to insulin, the blood
sugar regulating hormone, the body
starts processing food more efficiently, thus having a
lesser risk of storing fat even when
eating more calories during the non-fasting periods.
Eating a «better for you» cookie for breakfast then the high
sugar / high fat traditional cookies is a better way to
start the day and definitely will make me feel
less guilty!
When there are quality studies that where subjects actually
eat a whole food plant based diet of roughly 70 % — 80 % carbohydrates, 10 % — 15 % fat and 10 % — 15 % protein along with consumption of at least 40 grams of fiber a day (any
less and it would be an indicator that the subjects were
eating substantial amounts of highly refined plant foods), and those studies show that diets like Atkins or Paleo or Weston - Price result in better cholesterol, blood pressure, blood
sugar (both fasting and post-prandial) then I will
start paying attention to them.
But it seems plausible that the low - fat recommendations made things worse because people
started eating less of healthy foods like meat, butter and eggs, while
eating more processed foods high in
sugar and refined carbohydrates.
Start by
eating less sugar and refined carbohydrates.
I was born «in» a bakery — family business and grew up literally
eating sugar out of the container in many kinds of forms, but I always loved being healthy and strong, so I
starting eating more «healthy» = wholegrain («healthy carb» and
less sugar).
One of the number one ways I quit binging on
sugar 11 years ago was to
start eating more vegetables,
less crap, and real protein from real food.
The funny thing is, once you
start eating Paleo you'll find that your body will naturally
start craving grains and
sugars less.
Not even getting into exercise, but since we've
started eating less fat, and more
sugar, what has happened?