Green Juice To Help Prevent and Manage Diabetes

The World Health Organization recently shared a shocking statistic: 347 million people worldwide have diabetes. That’s upsetting. And this number doesn’t even take into account the percent of the population that are prediabetic or don’t realize they have diabetes. Diabetes can have serious health complications including nerve, eye and kidney damage.

As you might already know there are several types of diabetes: gestational, whereby a woman becomes diabetic during her pregnancy; Type 1, which occurs both in children and adults due to an auto-immune disease destroying cells in the pancreas; and, Type 2, which is the most common form, occurring in 90-95% of diabetic patients, including pediatric patients. Type 2 diabetes is related to insulin resistance, which means the pancreas is producing insulin but the body cells are no longer sensitive to it, so glucose levels in their blood stay high.

Good News

It’s important to understand that 93 percent of diabetes is caused by lifestyle choices – what we eat and how much we move plays a huge role in our health.  Which means that most diabetics can manage and even prevent diabetic damage through diet and exercise. People with prediabetes can stop it dead in its tracks and never develop the disease at all. If you currently live with diabetes or if you have been diagnosed as prediabetic don’t lose hope! Trust that nothing about type 2 diabetes is inevitable and that there are steps you can take to help your body heal itself and remove the causes leading to the symptoms of diabetes (especially type II).

Steps to Recovery 

• Avoid eating animal proteins (meat, fish, poultry, eggs, cheese and cow’s milk).
• Avoid refined oils and fats (found in most restaurant foods and processed foods).
• Use healthful fats and oils (cold pressed coconut oil, olive oil, sesame oil).
• Don’t eat food that has been cooked in the microwave oven. 
• Avoid processed frozen foods, canned products, and leftover foods. 
• Avoid sugar and starchy foods such as pasta and potatoes.
• Artificial sweeteners and products that contain them should be avoided at all cost!
• Avoid all manufactured beverages and fruit juices.
• Eat fruits whole, but separate from meals.
• Avoid alcohol, caffeine as well as other stimulants.
• Include fresh, 100% raw green juices into your diet on a daily basis (recipe below) 
• Move your body every day!

We get it, changing key lifestyle factors such as diet and physical activity may not be easy for everyone. But in the case of controlling blood sugar, you usually have a choice. Making the choice of drinking fresh green juice instead of soda or pop can make the difference between life and death. If you feel you cannot make that choice, or that you lack the discipline to implement those changes please consider that becoming diabetic can make your life much more limited and complicated than following some simple suggestions.