Diet affects diabetes blood sugar level, but maybe not the way you think...

Diabetes blood sugar level is affected by diet and lifestyle. Dr. Neil Barnard founder and president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine www.pcrm.org, explains how medical focus for years has been on the carbohydrates found in sugars and how they build up in the blood, affecting diabetic blood sugar levels. The hormone insulin, when working properly should be able to handle the sugar. New insight recognizes that something is hindering the insulin from being effective producing diabetes symptoms.

“Insulin is like a doorman. It is a hormone made in the pancreas, and it waits there to escort sugar from the blood to the cells. When it’s working correctly, the sugar that comes down the bloodstream can go right into the cells of the body. Insulin opens the door of the cell, puts the sugar inside, and closes the door. The problem is our diets are often so fatty that the doorknob is covered in grease. Insulin’s hand is slipping on this greasy doorknob. It can’t open it up. The sugar builds up in the blood, unable to enter the cell. The solution is a change of diet! Let’s get that greasy food out of the diet and bring in vegetables, fruits, and healthful foods. Suddenly, that doorknob is all cleaned up. The insulin is waiting. it opens the door, the sugar goes right in, and insulin closes the door - that’s what we call insulin sensitivity.

The new approach says if we get the greasy foods out of the diet, bring in vegetables and fruits in as natural a state as possible, we restore the body’s natural insulin sensitivity, or as close to it as we can get. That’s going to do two things: It can prevent the likelihood of adult onset diabetes; if you have it, you can reduce your use of medicines, and if you are like most people, get off your drugs completely.”

It is possible to control type 2 diabetes blood sugar level.

Type 2 diabetes symptoms are largely preventable and reversible