Showing posts with label Fruits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fruits. Show all posts

Friday, October 8, 2010

3 Amazing Fruits a Diabetic Can Eat Or Should Eat

Diabetes is not a sweet disease though it is associated to sweets and sugary foods. On the contrary, it is a disease hyperlinked with bitter ends. When it comes to how to control blood sugar, diabetics resort to various methods to control the disorder of the body. One of the best ways that diabetics ponder over to keep check on elevated blood sugar is by eating healthy diet, high in fiber and low in fats. Here is an issue in choosing a diet plan with restrictive diet foods. The restriction may compel you to cutting short of the cravings for many favorite dishes. You will be at cold war to go a long way with many of prohibited diet foods.

The good news is that you are let free to enjoy eating diet foods that can really be helping you to control blood sugar levels. If you want me to the point, I shall recommend 3 delicious and healthy fruits. You can add these to your favorite diet so that the sky rocketing blood sugar levels are geared back. Categorically, you have Apples, Grapefruits, and jambuls that you can relish the taste and enjoy the naturally inbuilt medicinal benefits to manage diabetes. Here is an endeavor to unfold the speculated benefits of these friendly diabetic fruits.

Apples: Apples as well as other citrus fruits are compounded with pectin that helps lower insulin deficiency of your body metabolism and thereby increase the body's potential to convert glucose into energy. Apples composed with vitamin B1 can be best serving to prevent diabetes risk factors like kidney damage, and heart disease.

Grapefruits: Another extra powered fruit that poses a significant role in controlling blood glucose is the great grapefruit in effect but too small in size. Red grapefruit, also known as the Hollywood Diet and erroneously as the Mayo Clinic Diet, has shown proven results in holding back the hiked levels of blood sugar in the blood stream. Red grapefruit has a prime role in regenerating your body energy when you are down trodden to fatigue due to low sugar.

Jambul: Jambul fruit, commonly known as black plum, is potent to preventing diabetes. As the jambul fruit also consists of Resin, albumen, gallic acid, and essential oil, eating jambuls can enable a diabetic to manage the symptoms of diabetes with ease. This fruit has high potential to keep control of starch from being converted into blood glucose.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Lower Carbohydrates Intake, Top 5 Low Carb Fruits and Vegetables

There are many reasons to lower carbohydrates intake in your daily diet. If you are a diabetic, to help you lose weight, to increase endurance and decrease fat storage in your body. What ever the reason, the amount of carbohydrates intake play an important role in living a healthy life.

Overeating carbohydrates can prevent a large amount of fat from being used for energy. Not taking any carbohydrates is not good either. It is important to keep the amount of carb intake in check for a proper nutrition.

Here are the top 5 Fruits and Vegetables that will help you to lower carbohydrates intake but, still are a good source for the carbs your body needs to function properly.

Note: to give you an idea of the amounts in grams, a 50 gram portion equals to 10 grapes, or 3 medium size strawberry or ? cup chopped celery or 2 extra long spears of asparagus. All the reference below is for a 50 gram portion.

Fruits:
Watermelon contains 4g
Strawberry contains 4g
Cantaloupe melon contains 4g
Avocado contains 4g
Honeydew melon contains 5g

Vegetables:
Arugula contains 1g
Cucumber (peeled) contains 1g
Broccoli Raab (cooked) contains 1g
Lettuce (iceberg) contains 2g
Celery contains 2g

It is not easy to keep track of all that you eat, weather is healthy or not. Including these fruits and vegetable as a snack or part of your daily meal, will help you live a healthier life. Having a lower carbohydrates intake in your daily diet will help you feel more energy and burn more fat. Good carbs is better than no carbs at all.