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3 Healthy Diets for Diabetes Patients and Prediabetics
 
There’s no one diet that fits all. This is why there’s an abundance of various diets out there that deliver different results. The question is—which one is sustainable for you? How can you shift your health?
This blog will answer the infamous question—what to eat when you’ve been diagnosed with Diabetes or Metabolic Syndrome?
Nutrition is the core pillar of how you shift your health. Yet it’s also a complex question to answer, even after the tons of research done about it already.
As you keep reading, you will learn about the science behind:
The Plant-based Diet
The Low-carb High-fat Diet
The Carnivore Diet 
Let’s dive right into it!
 
The Plant-based Diet
A plant-based diet consists of foods that are only obtained from plants. It includes everything from fruits and vegetables, whole grains and legumes, to nuts, seeds, and beans.
No animal-sourced or processed foods. Going on a plant-based diet is not equivalent to going vegan.
This diet has been a part of the nutritional world and has been studied extensively in the field of nutritional sciences since the 1940s. 
 
Why should you go on a plant-based diet?
More Sustainable: As Dr. Dean Ornish said, “It takes 10 times more energy to eat higher on the food chain i.e. when you're eating animal-based food as opposed to a plant-based diet, it takes ten times more resources to make that possible.” The plant-based diet is good for your body and the planet.
Scientifically Proven Safe: There’s countless evidence to support the benefits of the plant-based diet—culturally and scientifically. Research shows that countries that eat mainly plant-based have less mortality rates and a lower ratio of chronic diseases that are relatively high around the Western world with an abundance of animal-based protein.
Helps in Lowering High Cholesterol: The plant-based diet is proven to lower bad cholesterol levels from about 15% to 30% as it is relatively low-fat and removes oil from the diet.
Good for Heart Patients: This diet is confirmed to be good for the heart as eating multicolor, leafy food, and fiber can reduce the risk of stroke, and lower high cholesterol and high blood pressure.
Beneficial to people with Metabolic Syndrome: The plant-based diet has demonstrated efficiency in lowering each of the five risk factors—high cholesterol levels, high blood pressure, high fasting blood sugar, abdominal fat, and high triglyceride level—for developing metabolic syndrome. It also helps in the prevention of metabolic syndrome with the removal of oils and processed food from the diet.
All in all, plant-based diets are designed to get to the root cause of the disease and shift your health on a diet-and-lifestyle level.
When causality is treated with plant-based nutrition there is:
No mortality from the diet
No morbidity from the diet
And the health benefits improve with time.
If you have been eating predominantly the Standard American Diet (SAD), the easiest transition into a healthy lifestyle with a safer diet is going plant-based.
 
Foods included:
Fruits
Vegetables
Whole Grains
Legumes
Seeds
Nuts
 
Foods to avoid:
Oil
Meat
Fish
Fowl
Dairy
Coffee
 
Loopholes in the Plant-based Diet 
Even though there are numerous benefits to the plant-based diet, people still tend to fail in seeing results or sticking to it. 
Especially for diabetics, the transformation is slow because when you have high insulin resistance, getting the blood sugar down at the start is very difficult and takes a long time. 
Reasons:
People may not have involved a variety of plants in their diet.
People may not have stopped consuming oils totally.
They might consume too many fruits, dried fruits, and grains that increase sugar surges and don’t help with overcoming sugar addiction. 
Involving too many fruits and fewer plants can lead to severe insulin resistance.
They are gluten-sensitive. 
 
The Low-carb, High-fat Diet (LCHF)
The low-carb,