Foods You Can Eat With Type 2 Diabetes
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Foods You Like
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Often, it's not what you eat but how much. It's recommended to eat raw fruits and vegetables and yogurt dips as snacks instead of sugary foods and starches.
Fruits and Vegetables
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Nutrition experts recommend eating at least nine servings a day of colorful fruits and veggies--dark green, red, orange and yellow--to add vitamins and fiber.
Whole-Grain Bread and Cereal
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Whole grains (including sourdough) add fiber, a source of "good carbs"--sugars that that don't metabolize like those in refined flours.
Protein Foods
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Fish, poultry, nuts and beans add low-fat protein--although cooking should be done with unsaturated plant and nut oils.
Calcium Providers
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Milk is a good source of calcium, but tofu, low-fat (white) cheeses, fortified soy milk, beans and vegetables such as collard greens and bok choy provide calcium without the fat.
Forbidden Sweets
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Sweets are not forbidden, just restricted--so the carbohydrate content of desserts and sweets must be included in meal planning. Artificial sweeteners feed the "need for sweet" and must be avoided.
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