Best Foods For Diabetes - Foods that Raise Blood Sugar

High fiber foods – Fiber helps slow down glucose absorption.  Aim for at least 30g of high fiber foods per day from vegetables, berries, nuts, and seeds.

Chromium rich foods – Foods such as raw cheese, Brewer’s yeast, broccoli and other foods are high in chromium. Chromium deficiency can lead to poor blood sugar control.

Coconut – MCFA’s found in coconut can help balance blood sugar levels and be a preferred fuel source for your body rather than sugar.  Including coconut oil, coconut milk, coconut butter in your diet is a great way to intake MCFA’s.

 

Wild-caught fish – Omega-3 fats reduce inflammation and can help counteract some of the negative effects of elevated blood glucose.

Low glycemic load foods – Foods with a low glycemic value tend to not spike blood sugar as much as high glycemic foods.

 

Foods that Raise Blood Sugar

Sugar and grains – Refined sugar rapidly spikes blood glucose and a high grain diet also negatively affects blood sugar levels.

Soda, juice, or other sweet beverages – These forms of sugar enter the bloodstream rapidly and can cause extreme elevations in blood glucose.

Refined and processed foods – Any foods that are refined, processed, and contain no fiber generally will raise blood glucose.

Cow’s milk, especially for Type 1 – There has been research showing that children with type 1 diabetes can be sensitive to the protein in cow’s milk (A1 casein).  Use fermented goat’s milk products instead.

Alcohol – Can dangerously lower blood sugar.  Beer and sweet liquors are high in carbohydrates and should be avoided.

 

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Omega-3 Fatty Acids Reduce Type 2 Diabetes Risk

Omega-3 fatty acids may help reduce risk of type 2 diabetes, says a Finnish study.

Earlier findings on how fish consumption or long-chain omega-3 fatty acids affect the risk of diabetes have been contradictory.

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"Our study has found that high concentrations of serum long-chain omega-3 fatty acids is useful in reducing type 2 diabetes," said researchers from University of Eastern Finland.

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The researchers went through the serum omega-3 fatty acid concentrations of 2,212 men between 42 and 60 years of age at the onset of the study.
During a follow-up of nearly 20 years, 422 men were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

The risk of men in the highest serum omega-3 fatty acid concentration group to develop type 2 diabetes was 33 percent lower than the risk of men in the lowest concentration group, said the study published in the journal Diabetes Care.

The study sheds new light on the association between fish consumption and the risk of type 2 diabetes.

A well-balanced diet should include at least two fish meals per week, preferably fatty fish.

Fish rich in long-chain omega-3 fatty acids include salmon, rainbow trout, bream, herring, anchovy, sardine and mackerel, it added.

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Stressed Fathers May Put Kids At High Diabetes Risk

The study suggests that a male's life experience can be passed down through more than his genetic code alone.

Fathers under psychological stress are more likely to have kids with high blood sugar compared to their unstressed counterparts, a new study in mice has found.

The study suggests that a male's life experience can be passed down through more than his genetic code alone. Researchers link this difference to an epigenetic change in the stressed dad's sperm - a change that they could prevent by blocking the father's stress hormones.

Researchers confined male mice in plastic tubes for two hours a day, for two weeks straight, to induce stress. Afterwards, the animals' glucose levels were increased, but the mice gained weight more slowly and had increased levels of stress hormones called glucocorticoids in their blood.

These mice were then mated with females that had not been confined, and their resulting offspring had higher blood glucose than normal.

"Paternal psychological stress can result in hyperglycemia in offspring in mice," said Xiaoying Li from Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in China. The root of the increased blood sugar was in a gene called Sfmbt2. When a male mouse is immobilised daily in a plastic tube, the spike of glucocorticoids causes extra methyl groups to be added to the Sfmbt2 gene in his sperm.

These epigenetic marks do not affect the underlying DNA, but they do control how Sfmbt2 and an associated microRNA (the intronic microRNA-466b-3p) are expressed. The epigenetic reprogramming from stress, through glucocorticoids, was surprising, researchers said. This epigenetic change in stressed fathers showed up in their offspring's livers. The intronic microRNA-466b-3p in Sfmbt2 is supposed to help regulate an enzyme called PEPCK, which controls sugar production in the liver.

But when mammals reproduce, Sfmbt2 is turned off in the egg from the mother - meaning that offspring inherit their only working copy from the father's sperm.



And when the only functional Sfmbt2 gene carries these epigenetic tags, the intronic microRNA-466b-3p is silenced and can not keep watch over PEPCK as it normally would. The father's offspring then develop livers with too much PEPCK, causing their blood glucose to increase.

"It is potentially possible for our study to be translated into the treatment of hyperglycemia in human beings in the future," said Li. The findings were published in the journal Cell Metabolism.

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