A diabetic food list is a list of foods that are healthy but calculating the amounts of carbohydrates, protein, fats, and calories a person needs each day. The daily calorie count for a diabetic should be around 1650 with a low number of carbohydrates. There are many foods that you might be used to eating on a daily basis that didn’t make it to your diabetic food list. These foods include, but are not limited to alcohol, refined and simple carbohydrates, foods that are high in sodium, and high fatty foods.
Alcohol didn’t make it to your food list because alcohol is actually high in sugar content. If you like to cook with wines and alcohol, you will now have to use substitutes instead of the alcohol. Great substitutes for wine include fruit juices and natural herbs. In addition, they can provide for flavoring that tastes even better than alcohol. No more drinking at all when you have diabetes. If you drink to pass the time away, then stop. Find something else to do or check yourself into a facility so you can get help. The alcohol can send you into a coma.
Refined and simple carbohydrates are foods like sucrose, fructose or glucose. Foods in this group are white bread and rice, table sugar, sweets and candy, corn syrups, honey, maple syrup. All of the sugars need to be avoided.
High fat foods are no longer an option also. Okay, so you love McDonalds French fries and you love the onion rings from Sonic, not anymore. You absolutely cannot have high fatty fried foods. You should avoid oil by using substitutes like olive oil and juices. No more piles of butter on your vegetables… it is time to steam them, maintain the natural flavor, and add flavoring that is not salt or butter.
Which brings us to the final restriction is the cutting down on salt. Some people have to have their salt. It is dangerous and can lead to coronary problems. If you cannot give it up, a tip for your health is to eat a ton of bananas. Bananas help your body absorb the sodium immediately and get it out of the system.
There are several foods that didn’t make it to your diabetic food list and all for good reason.
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