Important Tips
- Exercise just after a meal for 20 minutes to lower blood sugar levels. Take a walk around the block or pick up some weights, do some squats at your desk.
- Get a bottle of Organic Raw Apple Cider Vinegar and drink before food or in between meals to balance blood glucose levels.
- Remember to eat Fiber first in a meal before the carbohydrate, protein or fat. This will help to balance blood sugar and slow down the toxic effects of carbs/sugar on the body tissues.
Apple Cider Vinegar is a super ally when it comes to balancing your blood sugar levels. You can reduce glucose spikes up to 30% by taking 1 tbs before a meal. ACV is helpful in digesting food as well as it builds Hydrochloric Acid levels in your stomach. This helps break down protein easier so you can absorb nutrients.
ACV helps to curb sugar cravings.
What is great about apple cider vinegar is while it lowers the glucose levels it does not increase insulin. Insulin increasing will lead to more inflammation and ACV helps lessen it.
PRO TIP: Use a stainless steel straw or glass straw so as to not hurt the enamel on your teeth.
Get a reputable Apple Cider Vinegar that does not dilute the vinegar with tap water. I used to love Braggs but unfortunately they dilute theirs now and cut corners with questionable water. I like this one.
Another blood sugar stabilizing hack is to simply eat the fiber rich food first in a meal. For example if you had eggs and a piece of bread and steamed spinach you would begin by eating the spinach.
Or take 1 tbs of ground flax seed an add it to water before eating your meal.
Fiber helps to slow down the release of sugar in your body since it is bulky in essence and does not easily absorb. It will help to lower blood sugar levels especially if you eat it first before the carbohydrate.
Fiber also effects our amylase or carbohydrate burning enzyme to help flatten glucose spikes.
Adding Cinnamon to your recipes will help stabilize your blood sugar levels.
Cinnamon helps move sugar into the cell walls, in increase insulin sensitivity. In essence it creates an insulin type effect on the body in an all natural way.
HealthLine Reports adding cinnamon lowers fasting insulin levels.
TIPS: Sprinkle it on your hot cocoa, over a tea, on top of your chia fiber rich porridge and add to keto bread recipes.
Gymnema is a plant that grows predominantly in South America. It is known as the "Sugar Blocker".  Take Gymnema before you eat a meal to help stabilize blood sugar levels.
It also can curb your interest in eating sugary foods which can be very problematic with Diabetics or those with insulin challenges and pre diabetes.
It has also been attributed to helping with weight loss.
By skipping a meal, intermittent fasting allows the body to burn fats and burn them off more efficiently.
Fasting stimulates the production of ketones by your liver, which burns through sugar and leads to a drop in sugar in the blood.
This is similar to what happens with diabetic people who fast, except that the effects of diabetes are reversed for insulin-dependent people without diabetes who do intermittent fasting as well.
People who follow an intermittent fasting diet will feel less hungry and stay on this type of diet until they have lost some weight. Intermittent fasting will help you in a way you did not think it would.
Fasting will make you feel less hungry and less likely to reach for foods with carbs or sugar. Intermittent fasting has become a favorite diet among weight-loss experts. Research has shown that it may be one of the healthiest diets around. It helps us reverse the aging process as well. We will produce less free radicals and our bodies have enough time to digest, repair and restore.
A key to maintaining and stabilizing healthy blood sugar levels is cleaning up your diet. You want to leave behind your health challenge without compromising the taste of great food. At the same time you want nutritious recipes that will up level your health.
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