What "junk food" can diabetics still enjoy?

Question

What snack/junk food can diabetics still enjoy? What are some examples of a healthy, satisfing lunch for a diabetic who loves eating, but needs to lose weight ? What foods are the absoulute worse for them & shouldnt be touched at all?

Answer 1

Personally, I have taught myself to not enjoy junk food and have learned to enjoy healthy food. In other words, I eat to live now... I don't live to eat anymore. I would strongly recommend that all diabetics do this as it makes living a long, healthy, and complication free life a far greater possibility.

Answer 2

Junk Food Diabetics

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

People with diabetes can eat anything they like.

We just need to manage food portions, medications, rest and exercise.

If you want ... say Fudge. The worst of all foods.All sugar with more sugar added.Enjoy a small piece with a glass of low fat milk. The fat in the milk will slow the absorption of the straight sugar. Count the carbs and adjust . say run down the beach or add some insulin.

Stay away from "diabetic " foods.Who wants food with diabetes for heavens sake ? It often tastes like junk and still has the carbs that a regular food has- with one exception - Soda. Gotta love that diet soda.
Enjoy small portions of all foods and continue exercising.

Make an appointment with a dietitian for a jump start.
Good luck.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Look at the GI Diet, you can still eat the junk, but you need to watch the portions very carefully, especially as weight loss is an issue.
Go for complex carbs like granary bread, long grain rice, wholemeal pasta and new potatoes, they will give you sustained energy release rather than a "rush". The GI Diet gives you fast food section and tells you about the healthier choices you can make.
I'm using the GI and I have lost 75lbs in 7 months and my diabetes is stable.

Answer 8

There are no absolutely unacceptable foods for diabetics. On the other hand, eating some foods requires more adjustment and compensation by diabetics than they're probably worth. And to top it off, different people have different reactions to some foods. For instance, some people's blood glucose goes way up when they drink milk, so they have trouble with it. Others don't.

The reason junk foods are junk foods is that they are (typically) manufactured to sell well, not be nutritious for diabetics or anyone. So soda pop has lots of calories in flavored water (some have phosphoric acid which the effect of pulling calcium out of bones -- not good especially for women, of course). Or sugary stuff like many candies (just sugar and some flavorings). Or for that matter, such things as potato chips which are starch (turns into sugar during digestion, fat (the oil they're fried in), and salt -- you get too much as it stands and you certainly don't need more). No vitamins, no protein, no minerals, no fiber, ... That's why it's junk food.

If you compensate (with medication or exercise) for whatever you eat, you can eat anything. It's the compensation business that's a pain and sometimes hard to do. In general though, the increased difficulty of compensating for junk food (all calories and little else) means they're generally not worth the bother.

As for losing weight, that's a very good thing for most type 2 diabetics, and indeed for just about anyone. It is now pretty clear, though the details are still sufficiently obscure that clinical treatments are yet available, that fat in and around the abdominal organs (not thighs or hips or subcutaneous fat generally) are one of the triggers for type 2 diabetes. This sort of fat produces hormones, some of which have been shown to be signals to other cells telling them to ignore insulin (eg, resistin). Lots going on there so we're not entirely clear about it all yet. But losing some of it, sometimes only 10 lbs or so, seems to help in lots of cases. Maybe even enough that you can stop taking medication...

Losing weight is often difficult. In principle, reducing calories in while keeping up activity will result in lose of weight, if not fast enough to make anyone happy. In practice, keeping track of calories in is not at all easy -- we all have to live regular lives and taking a precision scale with us is hardly practical -- and in any case things are a little more complicated. It seems that many people carrying too much weight have characteristic bacterial populations in their intestines, while those of normal weight have different populations. This is new information and just how it works isn't entirely clear, nor what to do about it.

But, watch what you eat, and exercise more -- not necessarily marathons of expensive gym workouts for hours. A brisk walk for 30-45 minutes three times a week seems to be reasonably effective for most people. The combination seems to work pretty well if you stay with it. Probably a permanent adjustment. You may have to give up watching the Hollywood gossip shows on TV and take a walk instead. Probably good for you anyway.

There are no magic foods or diets which will take the pounds off, despite the ads in this or that newspaper or magazine. In fact, some of them are pretty serious strains on your system (all protein, no carbs, or all carbs and no fats, or all grapefruits and no oranges, or ...) and are especially so for diabetics. Check with your doctor (though not all of them know much about this nutrition business, have you seen the shape some of them are in?) or a registered dietitian (in the US) to make sure you're not thinking about doing something you shouldn't.

And take your medication as instructed, no fudging. More than you're supposed to is very often dangerous (diabetic medications are not sugar pills -- little joke there) and don't skip. Some diabetics get in trouble very quickly if they go off their medication schedule.

Best wishes.

Answer 9

EATING SUGAR, CARBS, FAT
Our digestive system converts all carbs and most fats to GLUCOSE, and dumps it into the blood stream. Fat cells turn the glucose back to fat and store it, then convert it back to glucose on demand from the muscles.
It doesn't matter if it comes into our bodies as sucrose, fructos, glucose, or potatos, it will still raise blood sugar.
The key is to increase utilization of the blood sugar by the muscles and organs.
You can look to cinnamon, among other things--

I realize that conventional health care is necessary and appropriate. That having been said, there are also many things WE can do to overcome type II diabetes, and improve life as a Type I diabetic. I've been researching alternative medicine, and the amount of help that's available to diabetics is amazing.

Natural remedies are quite effective, and include:

Cinnamon
Bitter Melon
Gymnema Sylvestre
Nopal cactus
American Ginseng
Fenugreek
Chromium picolinate

Cinnamon regulates glucose, and has a polyphenol compound called MHCP that mimics insulin and activates cell receptor sites. A quarter teaspoon twice daily makes a difference. Fenugreek increases blood flow and inhibits the growth of infectious organisms. Everything on the list has a use in fighting diabetes. Learn how to use these herbs and don't fall victim to diabetes needlessly.You can find out about about them on line, or in a book I read cover to cover--

"One Son's Quest for the Cause and Cure of Diabetes", ISBN 7890766313

The author, a doctor, lost his mother to diabetes and spent the next 20 years finding a way to overcome it. My brother was dying of diabetes, and I was just starting to need insulin when we came across this definitive work which came out in February 2005. We both lead mostly normal lives now. It's a life saver, and the best money you'll ever spend on the subject if you decide to go that way.
You might want to check Abe Books, Alibri's, or Amazon.com for a good used copy cheap. I bought mine new, and I think it was about $35. I don't get any money from anybody for telling you this--just want to help, and the techniques in this book is what made the difference for me and mine. Best of luck.

Answer 10

I use the "white ain't right" idea. No white bread, crackers and such. For snacking I eat sugar free jello or jello pudding, whole wheat crackers like triscuits or a cup of Cheerios/Corn Chex. You still can't go pounding down this stuff....LOL. But it IS more forgiving.

When I first was diagnosed I thought I was going to eat cardboard for the rest of my life. But when I go shopping, I read ALL the labels so I know what I'm going to be taking in my system.

Here's some of the things I use now that substitutes what I WAS eating:

Sugar Free jelly
Low Fat Miracle Whip
Rye or Pumpernickel Bread
Whole Wheat English Muffins
White Corn Chips
Reduced fat peanut butter
Low or no salt ham
Light fruit juices
1% cottage cheese
Caffine/sugar free colas
Nestle's Pure Lite waters

Check these out. I found these kill off what cravings I had plus keep my sugars down to a decent level...and they taste pretty good!

Try these and let me know how you do