Advice and Recipes to Prevent Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes is a silent disease that many people may have unknowingly. To prevent this disease have a balanced and healthy diet and choose healthy lifestyles such as physical activity, stop smoking and avoid drinking alcohol.

Planning the daily meals is essential to balance the blood sugar level. There are foods you should avoid, and they can be replaced with high nutritional value and 100 % healthy.

Some food tips to prevent diabetes

• Make five light meals a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner and make a light snack between each of these meals. It is best not to spend more than two hours without eating in order to balance the level of glucose in the blood.
• Reduce salt intake, this will help lower your blood sugar. You can replace the salt herbs and spices.
• Reduce consumption of animal fats and saturated fats. Ideally you consume meat no more than three 
• times a week.
• Foods you should avoid are those containing fructose, honey, sugar and glucose. There are a variety of products to replace these types of foods. You can opt for unsweetened cereal bars, fruit, cookies gluten, etc.
• Incorporate into your regular diet foods rich in soluble fiber such as oatmeal, vegetables and low fructose fruits. These foods will help you maintain an optimal level of blood glucose.
• Avoid alcohol and drink plenty of bottled water.

Remember that diabetes is not an obstacle for you to feed with healthy and delicious meals, you have many options very nutritious and delicious recipes you can opt for.

By way of example and gift, we let 2 delicious and nutritious recipes.

Tuna Salad - ingredients

• 1 can of tuna
• Lettuce leaves
• Two tomatoes
• 2 stalks celery
• Cayenne
• 1/2 cup low -fat mayonnaise

Method of preparation: Cut into small slices celery sticks. Peel the tomatoes and cut into small cubes. Mix tuna with mayonnaise and celery. Spice and serve this mixture on lettuce leaves.

Fresh salad - ingredients

• Olive oil
• 1 egg
• 1 medium onion
• 200 g mushrooms
• Lettuce
• 1 tomato
• 200 g of cooked ham
• 200 g of fresh cheese

Method of preparation: Cut into small cubes the ham and cheese. Wash the lettuce leaves and cut them in Juliana with tomatoes. Chop the onion and egg. Add all these ingredients together with the mushrooms into a salad bowl and add a few tablespoons of olive oil. This salad should be served at the time of consumption.