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7 Diabetes diet myths to ignore
Eating too much sugar causes diabetes. The truth is that diabetes begins when something disrupts your body's ability to turn the food you eat into energy. This has nothing to do with all the sugar you ate in your life time.
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Once you produce insulin that works well, the sugar you eat will be used up, thus there will not be any excess sugar building up in your blood. But extra sugar does make you gain weight, which can cause diabetes.
Keep sugar intake low all the time. Drop the soft drinks and be safer.
There are too many rules in a diabetes diet
If you have diabetes, you need to plan your meals, but the general idea is simple. You will want to keep your blood sugar levels as close to normal as possible. Choose foods that work along with your activities and any medications you take.
Let a qualified dietician plan your diet for you. You need to make adjustments to what you eat. But your new way of eating may not require as man