10 Foods To Avoid If You Have Diabetes

Diabetes is a chronic, metabolic disease characterized by elevated levels of blood glucose (or blood sugar), which leads over time to serious damage to the heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys, and nerves. The most common is type 2 diabetes, usually in adults, which occurs when the body becomes resistant to insulin or doesn’t make enough insulin. 

 

Simply,Diabetes is a chronic medical condition that affects the way your body converts food into energy. One in ten in the United States has diabetes and one in three has pree-diabetes

 

1.Sugary Breakfast Cereals: 

Some of the breakfast cereal have 25% of sugar. What you have to do with you have diabetes is to have foods with low sugar and have to stick to a breakfast that has high proteins and low carbs. Breakfast cereals are loaded down with carbohydrates and sugars and they have low protein and low fiber.


 2. Barbecue Sauce : 

It’s one od the worst foods you can have if you have diabetes.

 

3.French Fries : 

White Potatoes are already a scarchy vegetable. When we fry it in oils with trans fat then load it up with salt , then it’s must a food to avoid . If you really want fries , try its healthier recipes.

 

4.Breads and Pasta: 

Eating White Breads and Pastas can be eating candies in some ways as they are loaded with sugar and have a little amount of protein.Whole grain breads and pastas can be a great alternative for it.

 

5.Energy Drinks:

consumption of energy drink can raise the risk of developing arterial hypertension and type 2 diabetes. But not all energy drink are bad.

6.Dry Fruit and Fruit Snack:

Because of the advertising , we might think those are really healthy for our body. But if you look at the label , you will notice that they have very high sugar . So it’s better to avoid those if you have diabetes.

 

7.Fried Chicken:

Its one of the worst things we can intake if we have diabetes. It tastes good but it contains a lot of sodium and most importantly the fried oil especially oils with all kinds of trans fat which can worsen diabetes.

8.Flavoured Coffee: 

Everyone loves flavoured coffees but it contains a lot of sugars, It will make you spiking your blood sugar. Just one typical cup of flavoured coffee can have 60 grams of sugar.

 

9. Potatoes:

 Its a scratchy food , a white potato has 40 grams of carbohydrate and only 4 grams of fibers . So if you want to include potatoes in your diet then you can add its healthier option , sweet potatoes.

 

10.Soda:

 It’s one of the worst drinks in general.A bottle of it may contain around 10 tea spoons of sugar.This liquid calories can really be bad for a diabetic patient. It can lead to weight gain . Even some on the sugar can be processed by liver and can turn into fat.