Diabetic (diabetes) Diet

Blood sugar and insulin are the name of the game for diabetics. While there are very few things that are “off limits” the diabetic does need to be wary of the thing they are eating and the commensurate blood sugar levels which will require them to grab their insulin gun to begin firing off shots before it’s too late.

Science has made the diabetics life scores easier; there are not only charted diets which offer point by point things to eat and not to eat, but there’s also much easier ways to get their insulin piped into them. While many ‘new’ diabetics as well as some of the functional traditionlists still use the needle and vial to pump their insulin inside, the new wave are these machines that pump the junk right inside them, no carrying needles and looking for a vein and no mistakes. It’s really just a matter of them pressing a button before they eat. Not that I’m belittling the life of a diabetic; it’s an enlightening experience to always have to be aware of the things that a majority of us do subconsciously. Most of us just eat when we’re hungry and stop when we’re full; a diabetics diet, every meal they eat, is seriously a matter of life and death.

A diabetics diet shoule be threefold, maybe even more. What a diabetic eats should be coordinated between the patient, their doctor, their dietician, and their husband, wife, mother, or father. At least whoever their nearest family member is should be kept in the loop; it’s completely unreal to watch someone without enough insulin go into shock with a room full of relative strangers. The diabetic might as well be in another country; everyone else in the room obviously can see that there’s something wrong with them; but the standers-by can’t communicate with the victim; wouldn’t know what to do even if they knew the problem. It’s very frightening.

So once your health team is assembled, probably the easiest thing to do is begin to compile recipes, menus, and meal plans so that there’s always something healthy in the house. If the diabetic is presented the opportunity to stray, it’s probably very much like a child in a candy store; removing the temptation is 2/3 the battle.