Recommended Drinks For a Type-2 Diabetes Diet
Think you’ve got your diet under control? You may be gulping down hundreds of unwanted calories without even knowing it.
“Believe it or not, more than 20 percent of our daily calories come from the things that we drink,” says Susan Aaronson, M.S., R.D., wellness coordinator for the M-Fit Health Promotion Division at the University of Michigan Health System.
“In fact, the World Health Organization recommends that people consume only about 10 percent of their calories from liquids. So those extra calories from liquid beverages are adding to American’s obesity epidemic, making it more difficult for people to lose weight and control their type-2 diabetes.”
Avoid Soft drinks
The doctors behind one of the nation’s most comprehensive public health studies have concluded what most dieters and type-2 diabetics already know: Chugging down sodas packs on the pounds.
The study of more than 90,000 women also suggests that increased consumption of sodas and other sugary drinks may significantly increase the chance of getting type-2 diabetes, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Soft drinks on a whole create an acidic environment in the body, but add to it the toxic chemicals within a diet soft drink, and you have a double-acidic whammy.
Avoid diet drinks
Research has shown that people have diet drinks regularly may be more likely to gain weight and develop metabolic syndrome, a condition that includes having excess belly fat, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and insulin resistance.
One theory why: Taste signals how many calories are in a particular food and helps your body judge how they should be used explains Terry Davidson, PhD, director of the Ingestive Behavior Research Center at Perdue University in I Indiana
Loading up on sweet drinks with no calories interferes with that signal, making it difficult for your body to determine how much you really need to eat.
Limit your intake of commercially produced fruit juices
Consumption of commercially produced orange, tomato, and pineapple juice should be kept to a minimum. Due to the fact that the natural enzymes of these juices have been destroyed during processing, all that remains is the acid part of the juice.
Research now shows that in addition to soft drinks, juice is now a contributing factor to the onset of type-2 diabetes.
Store bought juices have lost most of their nutrient content through modern processing methods like pasteurization, where the precious enzymes and nutrients are destroyed due to the high temperatures. This is in addition to the fact that juices start to lose their nutritional content soon after they are pressed from the fruit due to oxygenation.
Dr. David Ludwig at Children’s Hospital in Boston states that juice and sodas are essentially the same in that they have very high amounts of sugar. The point to remember is that sugar is sugar whether it is table sugar or fruit sugar.
If you suffer from adult onset diabetes fruit juices could be hazardous to your health, creating a rapid surge of blood glucose and insulin. That insulin can drive blood glucose into your cells for storage causing a rapid and dangerous drop in blood levels. A glass of fruit juice contains almost as much carbohydrate as a glass of sugar filled coca cola. The fiber in fruit and vegetables slows down this conversion. When you juice, you remove this essential fiber and the carbohydrates in the fruit and vegetable juice convert more quickly to blood glucose. Consider the carbohydrates in fruit juice in your meal planning. There are 15 grams of carbohydrates on average in three to four ounces of fruit juice.
Some will argue that it’s fruit and that alone should make it healthy. While both whole fruits and vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet, it’s a blatant mistruth to say they’re all good for you when clearly they are not.
Avoid orange juice!
Orange juice is marketed as a simple, healthy, and natural food; in fact, it’s heavily processed and contains several added chemicals.
In her 2009 book, “Squeezed: What You Don’t Know About Orange Juice,” Alissa Hamilton says the production of orange juice has become highly mechanized and involves the input of chemists and engineers.
Interviewed on February 22, 2009 by Boston Globe writer Debra First, Ms. Hamilton said, “In the process of pasteurizing, juice is heated and stripped of oxygen, a process called deaeration, so it doesn’t oxidize. Then it’s put in huge storage tanks where it can be kept for upwards of a year. It gets stripped of flavor-providing chemicals, which are volatile.” After this processing, the juice essentially tastes like water.
The juice makers then call on the expertise of flavor and fragrance companies, the same ones that create perfume, to bring back the orange taste. So-called flavor packs are created through re-engineering; “they’re technically made from orange-derived substances, essence, and oils,” says Ms. Hamilton. “Flavor companies break down the essence and oils into individual chemicals and recombine them.”
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Tip: If you want to drink juice consider having it during a meal with fiber. The fiber will slow down the absorption of sugar in the blood.
So, what drinks are recommended for a type-2 diabetes diet?
1. Fresh squeezed fruit and vegetable juices
Fresh fruit and vegetable juices are extremely beneficial in treating type-2 diabetes due to their high concentration of natural enzymes, and their ability to flush out toxins from the bloodstream.
Fresh juices are loaded with vitamins and minerals, especially the all- important plant- based Omega-3 linolenic acid, and precious live plant enzymes.
Research presented at the Experimental Biology (EB) 2009 meeting has found that people who drink 100% pure fresh-squeezed juices were leaner, had better insulin sensitivity and had lower risk for obesity and metabolic syndrome – a cluster of conditions that increases risk for stroke, heart disease and diabetes, when compared to non juice-drinkers.
Previous studies that show the downfalls of fruit juice have failed to distinguish between store bought fruit juice and freshly squeezed juice; there is a big gap between the two, and this new study proves it.
If you don`t have time to eat all those fruits or just enjoy drinking juices, then juicing your own fruits and even vegetables can be a healthful way of getting enough of these foods every day. Drinking the juice as quickly as possible after they have been juiced will ensure that you get the maximum benefit from them.
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2. Pomegranate Juice
Drinking pomegranate juice may protect type-2 diabetics from developing heart disease, according to a new Israeli study published in the August issue of the journal Atherosclerosis.
Atherosclerosis — a condition in which the walls of the arteries become thickened and hard — is associated with roughly 80 percent of all deaths of patients with type-2 diabetes. The study — conducted by researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology — examined the effects of daily consumption of pomegranate juice on the development of atherosclerosis.
Since ancient times, the pomegranate fruit has been revered for its antibacterial, anti-fungal, and antiviral properties. The juice of this precious fruit has long used as a defense against harmful internal parasites (such as those that cause diarrhea), as well as for its abundant nutritional value.Long used in folk medicine to treat inflammation, sore throat, and rheumatism in the Middle East and in India, the delicious sweet-tang of Pomegranate juice provides a substantial amount of potassium, vitamin C and niacin (a B Vitamin).
Preliminary studies of Pomegranate Juice reveal that Pomegranate can help to reduce low density lipoprotein ( bad) cholesterol and may help to lower blood pressure in individuals suffering from hypertension. Similar studies have suggested that Pomegranate may help to reduce or prevent a condition called arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arterial walls) which occurs due to an excessive build-up of arterial plaque and can lead to the development of heart attack and/or stroke.
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers say that pomegranate juice may provide important health benefits for diabetic patients. According to results published in the August 2006 issue of Atherosclerosis, subjects who drank 180 ml (6 oz.) of pomegranate juice per day for three months experienced a reduced risk for atherosclerosis, a condition that leads to arterial wall thickening and hardening. Atherosclerosis accounts for 80% of all deaths among diabetic patients.
The researchers also found that drinking pomegranate juice reduced the uptake of oxidized LDL ("bad" cholesterol) by large, versatile immune cells known as macrophages. Oxidized LDL uptake by macrophages is a main contributing factor to the development of atherosclerosis.
One surprising finding, said lead researcher Professor Michael Aviram of the Technion Faculty of Medicine, was that the sugars contained in pomegranate juice although similar in content to those found in other fruit juices did not worsen diabetes disease parameters (including blood sugar levels) in the patients, but in fact reduced the risk for atherosclerosis.
Ten type-2 diabetics and 10 healthy controls were recruited to the study, and after three months of supplementation, the researchers found that, while pomegranate juice consumption did not affect blood levels of glucose, cholesterol and triglyceride, it did significantly reduce serum lipid peroxides and TBARS levels by 56 and 28 per cent.
"In most juices, sugars are present in free and harmful forms," explained Aviram. "In pomegranate juice, however, the sugars are attached to unique antioxidants, which actually make these sugars protective against atherosclerosis."
The juice was freshly squeezed from handpicked fruit, and the juice was filtered, pasteurized and concentrated.
3. Noni juice
In Java, noni has been part of the treatment for diabetes for decades. Most of the folk uses for diabetes involve chewing the leaves or a combination of the plant and leaves. Chewing mulberry leaves releases and activates large amounts of mucilage or insoluble dietary fiber. The fiber may slow the absorption of simple sugars from the gut. The effect in most patients would be a slight reduction in the peak glucose level following a meal.
Noni juice works to fight type-2 diabetes by healing the cell wall receptors, so it is of particular help to those who suffer from type 2 diabetes caused by a disruption of the autoimmune system. Noni has been shown time and time again to help increase the body’s natural immune system, which works in conjunction with noni’s other natural healing properties to help those suffering from diabetes. Those who are inflicted with type 1 diabetes will still see a tremendous benefit to their health since the increased immunity and the other health benefits of noni juice will help mitigate the damaging aspects of type-2 diabetes.
For best results, take 1 oz of Noni juice up to three times a day, before a meal.
