Fighting Diabetes, Proactively!

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) today issued its annual Clinical Practice Recommendations to help health care providers treat people with diabetes using the most current evidence available. This year, one notable change occurs in the Medical Nutrition Therapy section dealing with weight loss.

The 2008 Recommendations include a statement recognizing the increasing evidence that weight-loss plans that restrict carbohydrate or fat calorie intake are equally effective for reducing weight in the short term (up to one year).
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Starchy foods such as white rice and bread raise the likelihood of diabetes for both black and Chinese women, but adding some whole-grain foods may reverse the risk, researchers reported on Monday.

Two studies — the first to look at this aspect of diabetes risk in non-white women — both show that eating refined carbohydrates can boost rates of diabetes.

One of the studies published in the Archives of Internal Medicine showed that women who ate the most fiber had the lowest risk of diabetes.[source]

Eating a diet rich in omega-3 fats may help keep high-risk children from developing type 1 diabetes, early research suggests.

Dietary intake of omega-3 fatty acids was associated with a lower incidence of autoantibodies in the blood that signal the immune system to attack insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.

Omega-3 fatty acids are known to have anti-inflammatory properties, and inflammation is believed to play a major role in the development of type 1 diabetes through destruction of these insulin-producing cells.[Via WebMD]

What does this mean. Eat a lot of Salmon, and fortunately, it is my favorite.

One quick Recipe.

Take half a pound of Salmon Fillets.
Squeeze lime juice over it, and sprinkle some Pepper and Salt.
Lay aluminum foil on a baking pan
Place the Salmon and cover it with the foil.

Pre Heat the over at 350 Degress Farienheit.
Bake for 25-30 minutes.

This is one hell of a yummy diet.