Eat More Vegetables - 12 Easy Sneaky Ways to Get More Vegetables on Your Plate

A healthy diet and exercise program is the key to getting your health back. While there is no cure for Type I, you can reverse Type II diabetes by losing weight and keeping your important number (weight, cholesterol, and AC1) in check. You can even end your need for medications of any kind. Before you can learn what a healthy diet is and how each component (fat, protein, and carbohydrates) can work with one another, you have to learn some information about the disease that is affecting you.
Many people who have just been diagnosed with Type II diabetes will think that they only need to avoid sugar, such as cakes, cookies, and candies, but will be able to continue eating their regular foods. They will continue to eat huge meals, racks of bacon, great globs of butter and fried foods by the ton. Their cholesterol and sugar numbers keep climbing and they are facing the potential of needing to have insulin injections. The doctor suggests more dietary changes and an increase in exercise but the person is frustrated. What else could they eliminate?
It is not about eliminating foods - it is about balance and moderation. It is not only white sugar that is the problem (although it is a large one), it is also the amount of food that is being ingested.
Every food that is eaten is broken down in a process that is called digestion. During this process, food is broken down into its smallest elements, for instance, proteins into amino acids, and then used by the body as it is needed. The body needs fuel to move around and for the functions that take place within it. The easiest fuel sources are fats and carbohydrates, which the body will obviously need. It also needs protein. In fact, all foods, regardless of what they are, can be classified as one of these three macronutrients.





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