Reduce the Amount of Fat in Your Daily Diet

In diabetes, too much fat traveling in the bloodstream interferes with the insulin receptors to allow glucose into the body cells. The fat can decrease the number of receptors insensitive and inefficient to allow the glucose in. Thus more insulin is required to handle the glucose from the foods we eat. The body may be able to increase its insulin production up to a certain point. But when the body is unable to make enough insulin for its needs, diabetes is the result.

Logically the best solution to the problem is to reduce the body’s need for insulin. And in very simplified terms, there are three main ways to reduce the insulin requirement:

1. Eat fewer calories each day so that less insulin will be needed
2. Eat a more natural diet, lower in fat and higher in fiber, which will increase the quantity and sensitivity of the cell receptors.
3. Get more exercise in a regular basis

Although many doctors and diabetes educators recommend that 25-30 percent of the daily calories be from fat, there is strong disagreement in this area. some world-renowned nutritionists working with diabetics recommend a very low fat diet that is high in natural food fiber. This advice is not really so new. It was around in the 1930s, and it reappeared in the 1950s when medical researchers again experimented with lo fat diets for their diabetic patients.

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