If you have diabetes, eating a bad breakfast is a big mistake.
Mom is still right: Breakfast is the most important meal of
the day, especially when you have type 2 diabetes. Your diabetes diet needs to
give you a healthy supply of energy to jumpstart your body in the morning.
"Remember that first thing in the morning, you’ve gone
many hours without eating and your body needs fuel," says Kelly O'Connor,
RD, director of diabetes education at the endocrinology center at Mercy Medical
Center in Baltimore. "If you’re not giving it any, it will create its own
in the form of stored blood sugar that gets released into your bloodstream —
which often results in blood sugar that’s too high."
Healthy breakfast food is also a must when it comes to
diabetes control and weight management. “Remember that when your body is
fasting, you’re not giving it any energy, so it slows down to conserve what it
has left, which is counterproductive," O'Connor says. The trick is to keep
your metabolism going all day long at a steady rate. "The simple solution
to both of these issues is to eat a good breakfast," she says.
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