5: 2 Diet for Diabetics: Control Your Diabetes for Life

Book excerpt: You can adopt 5:2 approaches to lose weight and help you fight Diabetes, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease. Either have 2 meals daily out of 5 from this book or you can select any 2 days in a week to eat recipes from this book. A slow steady healthy weight loss using nutritional change and exercise is associated with beneficial effects on the heart, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels. In addition, weight loss can reduce "insulin resistance" and make muscles and fat tissues more sensitive to circulating insulin levels in the blood. But before you start a diabetes weight loss plan, it's important to work closely with your doctor or diabetes educator - because while you’re dieting, your blood sugar, insulin, and medications need special attention.