The Truth About Diabetic Diets

Most people, when diagnosed as a type 2 diabetes are forced to deal with the overwhelm and frustration of a completely new diabetic diet. There are a few diabetic diets to choose from, and of course, each claims to be better than the others. The problem that the new diabetic faces is finding a diet that suits their lifestyle, but more importantly, still allows them to control their diabetes.

If you were to do a quick search for 'diabetic diets' through your favorite search engine, you would be able to see why do many diabetics find frustration, and rarely an effective diabetic diet. Some of the less responsible diets give misleading information on the proper foods that someone with type 2 diabetics should follow. Some of these diets include: eat more starch, eat 5 fruits and vegetables every single day, and of course, limit sweets to moderation. One diet suggested that you should eat cold cereal with skim milk for breakfast and a bagel with a teaspoon of jelly on it.

It is very important to analyze the diabetic diet before you start on it, and know whose suggestions you are choosing to follow, as some of the suggestions are not given by medical professionals. For example:

Cold Cereal - is filled with carbohydrates and can have an adverse negative effect on your blood sugar levels. You can verify this by having a bowl of cereal and testing your blood sugar levels after about two hours.

Skim Milk - also has carbohydrates in it and taking the fat out of the milk is not advisable. The fat would actually slow down the release of carbohydrate sugars form the milk in to the blood stream. It would therefore be better to have fat in the milk.

Bagels - are also loaded with carbohydrates and can greatly elevate ones blood sugar levels.

Jelly - is sugar, and combined with the carbohydrates from bagels can be disastrous for blood sugar levels.
Because of this, it is critical that all diabetes patients do the proper research before settling on a diet that is specifically designed to help them control their diabetes. There is an enormous concern in the medical community centered around recommendations that are made by self-proclaimed experts that are very misleading and may possibly cause further complications and damage to the diabetic patient.

Unfortunately, a vast majority of diet information that is available to the diabetic is drawn from the classic food pyramid. Patients with type 2 diabetes are continually finding themselves paying a lot of money for misleading information that could even cause them death. It is not surprising that type 2 diabetes is so rampant in the United States with most of its patients unable to control their diabetes