Diabetes is a lifestyle disease. And it is caused by a number of lifestyle food habits that can easily be avoided. Unconsciously, we lead a lifestyle which is not conducive to health and we are not even aware of it. Here’s a checklist of food habits that must be avoided to prevent diabetes:
Saturated fats
Saturated fats are bad for health and are the biggest cause of diabetes. These fats are usually found in dairy and animal products. If these items are packaged or if they are fast foods, it gets all the more worse. If your meal contains a lot of red meat or foods having semi-hydrogenated oils, you must immediately reduce the intake especially if you have crossed 30 years of age.
Haphazard eating
What exactly is diabetes? It is the inability of the body to maintain an even sugar level. Now if you are in the habit of eating haphazardly, often changing the routine, or eating at odd hours, you are doing a real damage to a uniform sugar level in your body. As a result, your sugar levels would often be fluctuating resulting in diabetes. Another health mistake that you may be making is to hog into some heavy desserts after dinner. Understand that anything consumed in late hours, that is, 9 pm is dangerous for your body.
Missing breakfast
Every nutritionist, doctor and health expert should tell you that breakfast is the most important of all meals during the day. If you leave for office hungry and carry an empty stomach for half the day, you increase your chances of acidity. This in the long run leads to diabetes. You must nourish your body with a considerable amount of breakfast every morning to give it enough energy.
Eating high GI foods
Glycemic index shows how fast a certain kind of food eaten by us is transformed into energy i.e in the form of glucose. Now the foods that become glucose faster are called High GI Foods. And these are the danger foods that you must avoid. And what are these foods? Foods like candy, pasta, rice or ready-to-eat food items like noodles, pastries and so on. Since these can be quickly digested, they create a glycemic overload by inducing excessive sugar in the blood stream. Hence these foods must be consumed less or if possible avoided altogether.
Not drinking enough water
Dehydration is equally dangerous for your body. We need enough water so that our kidneys function well and release toxins that make our metabolism lethargic. This means that are body is more prone to retaining and storing glucose. To avoid this, we must drink at least eight glasses of water each day.
Overcooked foods
A daal that has been warmed again and again during the day is a dangerous food. And if you consume such foods regularly, you are more at a risk of getting diabetes. That is because over-fried and over-cooked food contains trans-fats.
The above are at best some bad food habits that can be avoided. Also involve a lot of salads in your daily diets and replace beverages like tea or coffee with green tea and fresh juices.
Meri Fitness 