If you have diabetes, eating a bad breakfast is a big mistake. Get tips from an expert on healthy breakfast foods for diabetes.
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 jump start 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. Ankylosing
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