If you think there is no correlation of diet to Type 2 diabetes because no matter what you eat, your blood sugar levels seem to stay high; here is a good method to finding a definite answer:

• put yourself onto a balanced diet plan that includes key foods that help with blood sugar regulation
• then keep a log of what you eat and what your blood sugar levels are each day.

After a week, you will have enough data to begin to decipher patterns. Then go another week and determine additional patterns.

The reason why you may not have cracked the code on the foods that make your blood sugar levels high or unstable, is that you haven’t changed your diet all that much from what it has been.

The truth is that eating more vegetables at one meal a day is not going to make that much difference in your blood sugar levels unless of course you do something similar to what Dr. Oz did. He found a group of people willing to act as guinea pigs and then asked them to eat a huge amount of fresh produce each day. The amount was a staggering 5 to 10 pounds (2.27 to 4.55 kgs). The volunteers actually had to measure the food on a set of scales and then eat the measured food during the day.

The results were great for those who participated in the mini-study: they not only lost weight and lowered cholesterol levels but also lowered triglycerides and blood sugar levels, too.

Another mistake that people make frequently is that they think they should avoid red meats and all saturated fats from their diet. These saturated fats are the stable fats, the ones that don’t oxidize. An oxidized fat is a very dangerous molecule in your body. It will cause the production of free radicals which then causes rapid aging and destruction of your body’s internal organs. Plaque in your arteries is caused by oxidized fat.

A healthy diet is composed of fat, protein and carbohydrates. If someone decides to eat less protein foods… meats, fish, eggs and dairy products, then the total composition of protein in the diet decreases. Since the total percentage of protein plus carbohydrate and fat must equal 100%, decreasing protein only means one thing: the carbohydrate and/or fat percentage will increase. Once the level of carbohydrates increase, then control of your blood sugar level has started on the pathway to becoming out of control, or more out of control.

Type 2 diabetes is a disease of carbohydrate metabolism; dietary changes can be powerful in improving insulin sensitivity and diabetes control.