Type 2 Diabetes Diet Guidelines: Type 2 Diabetes Diet Meal Plan
Almost everyone knows that the most important thing and effective way to control diabetes especially for type 2 diabetes is controlling your diet on daily basis. Also it is the simplest way to control diabetes. To control diet doesn’t mean that you can’t eat, otherwise you will lack for nutrition and cause other disease. What you need to do is to manage your diet with appropriate meal plan along with appropriate exercises.
Controlling for type 2 diabetes diet
Type 2 diabetes generally happens between 30 to 50 year old, and the most is around 50 year old. The reason caused to type 2 diabetes comes from multiple facts in your life, and it makes you suffering lack of secreting insulin. Actually your pancreatic islet function is still working properly in most cases, which means you don’t have to insulin injection frequently as diabetes treatment, and instead of improving your daily diet to control blood glucose volume and avoid diabetic symptoms.
Type 2 diabetes diet meal plan advice and sample
Start now with new diabetes diet plan, here we show you some advices and meal plan for your diabetes diet plan. The principle of diabetes diet plan must satisfy these rules: controlling quantity of food intake, balancing diet composition, and eating little but often. You should keep in mind to follow the rules for all kind of diet plan you will make. First of all you need to learn to count carbohydrate and calorie intake on a daily basis, this is the first step and best way to arrange your diet plan. Also, you may split traditional 3 meals a day into 6 meals a day, which are breakfast – snack – lunch – snack – dinner – snack, then cut the amount of breakfast, lunch and dinner, separate them into snacks as supplementary nutrition.
A sample diet plan here for you:
1) Breakfast (around 7am-8am)
1 egg, 2 slices whole wheat toast (no butter please) and half cup orange juice or skim milk.
2) Snack 1 (around 10am)
1-2 orange or kiwi fruit.
3) Lunch (12am)
1 cup skim milk, 2 slices whole grain toast (no butter as well please), 3 oz. turkey or chicken, some lettuce or 1 tomato.
4) Snack 2 (Afternoon tea)
1 cup sugar-free yogurt (with some tea).
5) Dinner
1 cup skim milk, 6 oz. mashed potatoes, 3 oz. chicken or beef, some broccoli and lettuce with low fat dressing.
6) Snack 3
1 small apple or orange.
In brief, controlling carbohydrate intake means to control diabetes diet. There are some data for you to follow: Women should limit to 30g-45g carbohydrate per meal, no more than 15g per snack, and adult men should limit to 45g-60g carbohydrate per meal and also no more than 15g per snack.
Some cuisine for type 2 diabetes diet plan:
Chicken Salad with Walnuts, Roasted Potatoes with Herbs, Pumpkin Muffins, Vegetable Soup, Grilled Salmon Steaks, Sprouts with Bacon, Cream of Tomato Soup, and so on.
From now on, please change your eating habit with appropriate diet menu and meal plan, and do more light exercises along with your new diet plan. This will be definitely helpful for controlling your diabetes symptoms. By the way, we also believe the word, more exercise, and more health. Remember, keep training your body is another way to cure all disease.
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