The American Diabetes Association diet recommends that you make healthy choices each time you eat. For those of us with diabetes, this is almost a no brainer. Eating healthy is one of the most important things we can do as diabetics to keep ourselves virile and complication free.
It is crucial that you see a nutritionist when you are diagnosed and get on a diabetic meal plan as soon as possible. It is also very important to choose foods with a low GI or Glycemic Index, and a high concentration of vitamins and minerals. The GI is a measure of how long it takes a certain food to raise your blood sugar, lower is always better.
Getting enough vitamins and minerals in the western world has become harder in recent decades due to the oversaturation of terrible, useless fast food that have taken over most of our diets. Some of the minerals and vitamins that are not present enough in the typical American diet are Fiber, calcium, potassium, magnesium, and vitamins C,A, and E.
The following foods are considered “super foods” by the American Diabetes Association diet, and these foods can be safely integrated into your existing diabetic diet, or even if you are not a diabetic, these foods should be incorporated into your meal plan just for the sake of good health and longevity.
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