Delicious Snack Makes High Blood Sugar Disappear
If you have diabetes, your doctor probably gave you an instruction list full of “don’ts.”
Don’t eat that pizza…
Don’t try that chocolate cake…
Don’t eat anything you really love.
Talk about FRUSTRATING!
But when it comes to dietary guidelines for diabetics, I like to focus on the “do’s.”
There are plenty of DELICIOUS foods that you should be eating to control… and even REVERSE… your diabetes.
And that includes a tasty nut that’s PROVEN to make high blood sugar levels sink like a stone.
Eating healthy doesn’t have to mean giving up everything you love – and this is a perfect example.
A recent study found that eating just 2 ounces of almonds per day can lower fasting blood sugar and insulin levels in diabetics.
Insulin is like a key that unlocks cells to allow glucose to enter. When you become insulin resistant or diabetic, that key stops working.
Instead of getting into your cells (where it supplies energy to your tissues and organs), the sugar ends up floating around in your bloodstream, causing high blood sugar levels.
Then your body starts pumping out more insulin in an attempt to get the “key” to start working again, resulting in high insulin levels.
High blood sugar is extremely damaging to your body because it can cause damage to your nerves, blood vessels, and organs. That’s why typical diabetic complications include things like kidney damage (nephropathy), eye damage (retinopathy), amputations, and more.
High insulin levels aren’t much better. They can damage your heart, increase fat storage, cause plaque to form in your arteries, increase the risk of various types of cancer, and more.
So by lowering fasting blood sugar and insulin levels, almonds are actually able to target the very underlying problems that contribute to diabetes and its complications.
That’s an impressive feat for such a tiny little nut.
Two ounces is about two handfuls of the tasty nuts – enough to get your fill of almonds’ other benefits (vitamin E, manganese, protein, copper, riboflavin, calcium) – but not enough to worry about what this high-calorie treat might do to your waistline.
To a brighter day,
Dr. Richard Gerhauser, M.D.
Written By Dr. Richard Gerhauser, M.D.
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