Tips to keep blood sugar under control naturally

A lot of people find it difficult to control blood sugar mainly because of insufficient knowledge of diet and its impact on the body and sometimes because of confusion.

Diabetes is a silent condition; it has no symptoms as it is detected accidentally in routine tests. It is necessary to control blood sugar in the initial prediabetic stage or when the diagnosis is made to avoid progressing to complications of Eye damage, Nerve damage, Heart disease.

Look no further as these basic and fundamental points are enough to manage your blood sugar-

1. Plate Method

Plan all your meals in this fashion and controlling blood sugar becomes much easier.

Fill half your plate with cooked non starchy vegetable such as broccoli, spinach, cabbage, carrot etc and quarter with carbohydrate i.e. Bread/rice/fruits and the other quarter with lean protein such as eggs, fish, chicken etc.

2. Walk Daily

Walking as a form of exercise is very under rated, although it has a wide range of metabolic and cardiovascular benefit.

Here is a simple chart to follow and let your daily walking begin.

3. Eat Home Cooked Meals

Try to avoid and limit packaged or processed food in any form.

(anything that comes as ready to eat) is very bad for your health and overall well-being as it contains a lot of preservatives and excess amounts of sugars, unhealthy fats, salt, artificial colours and flavour.

At home you can easily control the amount and types of ingredients used and its affordable too.

If you need guidance regarding meal plans and need a personalised diet chart, consider a consultation.

4. Avoid Sweetened Beverages and Fruit Juices

Yes, even the healthy and innocent looking fruit juice is also the problem along with sweetened beverages.

Because fruits naturally contain high amounts of sugar and will spike your blood sugar suddenly if consumed without the pulp i.e. fibre.

Therefore, it is always recommended to eat whole fruits rather than juices.

This regimen is not a substitute to your regular diabetes medication if you have been prescribed by your practitioner.

Before making any drastic changes to your diet and lifestyle it is very important to consider your general health and wellbeing.

At Kyoor Homoeopathy we believe in natural healing through holistic approach considering both mind and body.

For more information consider a consultation.

Dr Rutika Kale

BHMS, Certified Diabetes Educator