Vegetarians and Diabetes

By Jake Ryan

It is easy to become overwhelmed by diabetes. You need to take change your diet to help manage the disease. One particular life change people with diabetes have been changing to is a vegetarian diet. It eliminates all animal foods and sugar.

When you have diabetes not maintaining a proper diet can cause extra blood sugar to build up and cause bad health problems. Your insulin isn't being utilized enough or the cells are not using the insulin properly. Insulin is the glucose carrier to the blood stream and then to your cells to fuel them.

Vegetarianism is a life change. You can go as strict as not eating meat at all or you can with other vegetarian diets you can eat mean on special occasions.

Whether you extremely strict or more lenient on whole a vegetarian diet are lower in calories than an average diet. Since weight, loss is a major goal of most diabetics this is a good plan. Weight loss can reduce the cells resistance to insulin, which in turn allows them to process sugar like they are supposed to.

A vegetarian diet contains little or no animal products; this in turn reduces fat and cholesterol in the diet, which reduces the occurrence of other complications from diabetes. Namely cardiovascular and kidney disease, two of the most common complications.

A vegetarian diet is really the best diet for a person with diabetes. All the benefits in health, cholesterol, weight, and reducing insulin resistance make it the perfect diet for a diabetic. - 17274

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