The foods that are good for you are the same foods that are good for anyone who wants to eat well. You should eat a variety of foods in moderate amounts, while watching the fats in your diet. The difference is that diets planned for individuals with diabetes need greater consistency in the amounts and types of food eaten and in the timing of meals and snacks. It's better to drink water, unsweetened tea or Chinese tea or diet soda. Add a wedge of lemon for smell. Popular drinks such as tea with tapioca, or fruit with tapioca, or crimson noodle with tapioca should be avoided unless made with artificial bait. If you select to drink intoxicating beverages, restrict your consumption to no much than one beverage a day for women, two for men, and drink simply with a meal.
To reduce fat and cholesterol, eat no more than 6 cooked ounces of meat, poultry, and fish daily. One serving of meat should be about the size of a deck of cards on your plate. Use skinless turkey, chicken, fish, or lean red meat to reduce the amount of saturated fat in your diet. Lean, 3 ounce cuts of red meat may be used occasionally. Trim all the available fat prior to cooking the meat. Eat two servings of fish per week. Cook by baking, broiling, roasting, steaming, boiling, or microwaving quite than profound fat frying. For the principal entree, consumption little meat or get meatless meals a few times a week. Use smaller amounts of meat to cut the overall plump substance of the meal. Use no much than 5-8 teaspoons of fats or oils per day for salads, cooking, and baking.
Do we need B vitamins supplements to reduce heart disease risk? Most research suggests that consuming the RDA for folate, vitamin B6, and vitamin B12 is sufficient. Should we have our homocysteine levels tested? At this time, no major health organization recommends across-the-board testing for homocysteine. Some physicians, however, do advise testing for people with a strong family history of heart disease and those who have suffered a heart attack or other coronary event in the absence of high blood cholesterol or other risk factors.
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