Committing to living right and eating right in the hope of increasing good health and feeling better can take some defining of what eating right actually means. Some people think that eating right means just not eating too much and that can indeed be part of it, but if you struggle with keeping normal blood sugar levels and want to affect how you glucose levels rise and fall each day, then it will take more than just not eating too much. It will mean eating differently than a person is used to and will probably even mean learning to use the kitchen of more than just warming up frozen pizzas in the microwave or oven.
Those differences will manifest themselves at the grocery store and may even cut down on the amount of things purchased there each day. Whole foods eaten fresh or cooked are the way to go. Adding lean meat to those foods is a good protein source and leaving behind any processed foods of any kind, including ketchup and mayonnaise, is necessary to affect quick results. Eating this way will give your body the nutrients it needs to be healthy without overloading it with glucose as it was from eating the old way.
When food is eaten and started to be digested some of it is turned to glucose which is absorbed into the blood stream. This rise in blood sugar levels signals the pancreas to release insulin to allow the glucose to pass into cells needing it for fuel. As more glucose is absorbed more insulin is released until the levels stop rising and then fall in response to insulin doing its job. When the meals are largely full of food that turns to glucose and overloads the body with glucose after every meal, eventually the body can’t keep up and excess glucose stays in the blood circulating in the body. This elevated glucose level can harm small blood vessels and cause other chronic health problems. If left uncheck it usually develops into diabetes and that is truly to be avoided.
If normal blood sugar levels are slightly beyond reach, consider the change to whole foods and see how quickly they fall back into normal ranges.