How to Prepare a Diabetic-Friendly Breakfast
Traditional breakfast foods can spell trouble for someone with diabetes. Yet skipping breakfast can be equally harmful. Follow these guidelines to incorporate breakfast into your diabetic diet in a safe and healthy way.
These diabetic-friendly breakfast guidelines will help you to manage your blood sugar and your weight. Controlling your blood sugar means fewer complications from your diabetes.
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Opt for water instead of orange juice. If you're a diabetic, you're probably already aware that the sugar in orange juice will raise your blood sugar faster than any other type of food. If you're not in need of the kind of blood sugar boost orange juice gives you, opt for a different type of beverage. There are several other fruit juices that are great in the morning. Even better, skip the juice altogether and go for a whole piece of fruit instead. You'll get more fiber to help you feel full and keep your weight and blood sugar in check.
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Use low-fat or non-fat creamer to keep the calories down as a part of your all-day strategy to trim the fat in your diet. Maintaining a low-fat diet will help to prevent future health complications related to heart disease. Any coffee drinker can tell you how important their morning cup is to their day, but coffee drinks can have a seriously high amount of sugar and fat. One cup can have half of the calories you need to take in each day.
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Switch to non-fat or low-fat milk. Milk has a combination of carbohydrates, fat and protein which makes it a well-rounded beverage, but it's important to limit the fat in your diet that comes from animal products. Milk is fortified with calcium and vitamins that are good for health, but buy the low-fat variety and watch your portion sizes.
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Eat whole wheat or double-fiber bread as opposed to white or wheat bread in order to keep your toast from spiking your blood sugar too quickly. Toast is a long-time breakfast favorite, but it can also be a source of high amounts of fat and sugar. Whole wheat and double-fiber bread will have a lot more fiber made of complex carbohydrates that take longer to break down than the simple carbohydrates in white or wheat bread.
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Use peanut butter on your toast instead of jelly and butter. This will help you to keep the amounts of sugar and fat down. This makes a good mix of high and low glycemic index foods that will keep your blood sugar levels from spiking or dipping too dramatically.
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