HOW GRAZING CAN HELP YOUR DIABETES

I bet a lot of people have heard of grazing but actually have never tried. Grazing, especially for children, is extremely important. One in three children has type 2 diabetes. Doesn’t that sound extremely high, especially for a disease that is completely avoidable. People might say, well how is that true? Well, it’s simple science, eating the wrong foods and over consuming those foods causes type 2 diabetes and worsens type 1. If food can change all this, why aren't we taking advantage of this and simply just eating foods we should be eating. You might not want to take out all the bad foods at once and that actually is advised. It’s much harder on a child and most adults to cut everything out mentally. The child will rebel and the parent will have a very hard time dealing with that stress. I know, I’ve been there with my daughter. Allowing yourself or your child to graze will help reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes.

Grazing fuels the brain, reduces stress in the body, improves digestion, burns fat and stabilizes the insulin and stress hormones in the body. Just one method that does all of that. That's simply amazing. The reason is, grazing promotes insulin efficiency. What does that mean? When your Type 2 diabetic, your pancreas is constantly trying to make extra insulin to allow the proper amount to be sent to the cells, which then would allow glucagon to be released into the liver to achieve proper blood sugar levels. But with Type 2, your body is overproducing insulin to keep up and the cells aren’t allowing the insulin (glucose) to enter the cell, which then causes insulin resistance. In a whole, your cells are starving and your sugar levels are not regulated. But grazing helps allow the insulin to become regulated. When you constantly eating horrible foods, especially in large quantities, your body rejects any nutrition that it’s getting. But when you graze, you're allowing your body to have small portions of these bad foods and your body is not working as hard. Once you start to graze your body will slowly not want certain bad foods or at least in large quantities. If you allow your body to have small breaks throughout the day, your body is going to start to want better foods. This is because when you're eating smaller portions and promoting insulin efficiency, you're going to start feeling better and noticing that bad foods make you feel terrible.

Everything takes time to change. If you have had this horrible lifestyle for years, it’s going to take time to change your metabolic system. When you go on fast diets or medications, (which you may need if your diabetes is completely out of control, until you get in more of a safe mode) you're simply putting a bandage on it. Everyone is fast to listen to there medical doctors before doing the research. According to US News, 29% of medical doctors are nutritionally trained, out of that 29% who actually keeps up with the changes in nutrition. I’m not against doctors, I'm against ones that aren’t properly trained in nutrition and give advice to their patients on what to eat and how to eat it. Find the right resources or work with the doctor you have, an allow a nutritionist or Certified Health Coach to work with you and your doctor to get your health where it should be. Grazing is an easy start to your new journey. It can’t hurt to try something that is back up by scientific research.

Reference

How much do doctors learn about nutrition,(2016), US News, Retrieved from https://health.usnews.com/wellness/food/articles/2016-12-07/how-much-do-doctors-learn-about-nutrition

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