Low Carb Diabetic Diet

Legumes are dried beans and peas, including split peas, lentils, soybeans, and a wide variety of red, white and black beans. Grains are the seeds of cereal plants — wheat, corn, oats, rice, millet, barley, rye. (No, you don’t eat them whole, though whole wheat grains, called wheat berries, are delicious). Most whole grains are milled and made into a variety of different foods — bread, pasta, crepes, and tortillas, to name a few. Eaten together, legumes and grains are the main  source of protein for vegetarians who don’t eat eggs and dairy products.

Low Carb Diabetic Diet

Every spring I eagerly await the first asparagus, and fortunately an increasing demand for it over the last few years has resulted in a lowering price, making this superb vegetable accessible to all in peak season. Asparagus goes well with chicken, veal and fish and is, of course, lovely cold in salads or sandwiches. Have you tried it?

Select: small, crisp asparagus with firm heads and petals closed. There are several varieties, which can all be cooked in the same way. It is best to eat asparagus soon after buying it.

Preparation: Small asparagus need no trimming, but if the spears are large, peel them by starting from just below the head and descending towards the base; snap off the tough part at the base of the stalk. Asparagus can be steamed, stir-fried, microwaved or boiled, and they take 2-10 minutes to cook. When boiling or steaming them, tie the spears in bundles of five to eight before cooking. Remove them from the hot water by taking hold of the string with the aid of a fork. Place on plates and cut and discard string before serving.

Suggested seasoning: Soy sauce or oyster sauce (low salt varieties), lemon with a little butter or margarine, orange rind, grated cheese, curry spices.

Low Carb Diabetic Diet

Easy Slimming Diet

Are you a diabetic who exercises but realize that you need to have protein supplement? Are you under low carb diets and would like to know more about how you can get sufficient protein?

Yes, is is definitely important to get a source of protein for yourself or your love ones.

Low carb diets are a great way to lose fat and get in shape quick. The problem is that eating low carb can be difficult. Low carb protein shakes are the way to go to get the best results!

One problem with typical low calorie diets is that you usually lose more muscle than fat. This can slow down your metabolism and make your body actually look worse than before. Using a protein shake to keep your protein intake high while minimizing carbs is how the pros keep their muscle while shedding the ugly bodyfat.

Most people will want a protein that contains as much protein as possible with as little carbs as possible. The basic idea is to find a shake with at least 20 grams of protein per serving and under 10 grams of carbs. The listing below shows all the ones available that are made by quality manufacturers.

So how do you pick out a low carb protein for you? Well, there is no right answer, and a lot depends on your personal preferences.

Recently, I discover Low Carb Protein which delivers a unique source of protein by combining a highly refined Ultrafiltered, Whey Protein Concentrate, Instantized Calcium Caseinate and Cross Flow Microfiltration and Ion-Exchange processed Whey. This unique blend offers a sustained release of “Fast & Slow” proteins, meaning that the amino acids enter the bloodstream at differents rates. This allows for higher amino acid concentrations in the blood for longer periods of time, therefore, increasing nitrogen retention. Low Carb Protein is also remarkably high in Branched Cahin Amino Acids (BCAAs), which are the most required amino acids needed to replenish muscle stores that are utilized during strenuous exercise.

This is a reliable store you can buy and get them delivered to your doorstep:

Vanilla Flavor:

Chocolate Flavor:

Strawberry Flavor:

Low-Carb Protein Strawberry 1.8lb from MRM

Everyone can learn the joys of shopping, and shopping for fresh food is a very special task. Colourful arrays of fruits and vegetables are a delight to the eye, and savouring the seasonal smells of mandarins, apricots, peaches, pears and strawberries, to mention just a few, is something we all enjoy. I can think of few ‘live’ scenes that offer more colour and entertainment than a food market. And it is within the reach of all city-dwellers. When shopping for fresh food take your children with you as often as you can and share your knowledge of food with them. They will enjoy it immensely. Our eight-year old daughter, Joey, can easily distinguish good fruit and vegetables from bad ones. As an adult, therefore, he will be confident shopping for himself and will, I am sure, pass on his enjoyment of marketing to his own children.

For a person who works outside the home, as as doing housework and caring for children, it is desirable to have help from a sharing partner if family eating patterns are not to suffer. Eating badly is detrimental to family health and happiness. Because busy lifestyles we cannot all shop as often as we should; but for the sake of freshness it is best to she: at least twice a week and share the task as much as possible. Shopping for three or four days ahead requires a certain amount of planning. To buy the freshest ingredients you should choose the best shopping days of the week, that is Tuesday for midweek, then Friday or Saturday morning for good quality ingredients for the weekend.

Low Carb Diabetic Diet

For many of us, it’s not a news flash that we weigh too much. Maybe we are secure enough in our lives that the paunch of the middle age doesn’t bother us. Or maybe we have been overweight for all of our adult years and have learned to live with it. Our weight could have yo-yoed so much over the years that we are sure there is no real solution to losing weight and keeping it off. Some women are too busy to deal with the 20 extra pounds three pregnancies have left behind. We don’t do anything about extra weight because the threat of diabetes doesn’t seem real enough.

So what about you? Are you worried enough about diabetes to try to shed those extra pounds? Have you given any thought to what ti will take to motivate you to examine and change your habits? What barriers are stopping you from taking action today, right this minute, in fact?

It is okay if improved health and diabetes prevention are not your primary motivation for losing weight. There can be many your primary motivation for losing weight. There can be many other personal benefits to getting to a lower number on the scale. What about appearance? Feeling better? Looking sexier? Fitting into a smaller size? Creating a body as buff as the 25 year old who lives next door? Feeling muscles in your arms and legs that you never knew existed? Keeping up with you kids as they in-line skate through the neighbourhood?

One way to figure out what will motivate you to make changes in your lifestyles is to think of all the benefits you will personally gain when you lose weight. No matter how silly or selfish they may seem, write down ten benefits in a journal or a notebook or on a stray piece of paper. Then force yourself to come up with ten more benefits — it’s often the second ten that are the real reasons you want to lose weight. In these you may find the real motivation for making a conscientious effort to manage your weight.

Putting all this into writing can make you see up front what you could gain if you started taking steps to manage your weight. Then once you are on the path toward a healthier lifestyle, this list will motivate you, reenergize you, and get you through the rough spots.

Low Carb Diabetic Diet

Diet therapy is essential in the control of all diabetics, be they on diet alone, oral medication or insulin.

The aims of dietary management are:

1. To help control levels of glucose in the blood, and prevent loss of glucose in the urine.

2. To achieve a satisfactory weight. If you are overweight you will need to lose weight to achieve ideal body weight suitable for your age, sex, height, and body build. This is important because obesity is a health hazard particularly for diabetics. If you are underweight you will need to increase your body weight.

3. To provide a palatable diet which si acceptable to the individual.

4. To provide sufficient calories for normal activities.

The diet will be individualized for each person. The physician’s prescription is based on:

i. Age, sex, weight, height and activity of the individual.

ii. Type of diabetes IDDM (Insulin Dependent) or NIDDM (Non-Insulin Dependent)

iii. Type of medication, amount and when administered.

iv. Nutritional requirements of the individual.

Low Carb Diabetic Diet

What silly things did you do recently in the kitchen?

Was it about putting the vegetable in the freezer compartment when you are suppose to store it at the down compartment?

Or was it about smashing your own fingers when you are suppose to smash the garlic?

I just did one early this morning. Well, it goes like this:

We were in SP and got to know that Kings Confectionery at Tesco was having the last day sale for all their items. 40% off all items, that’s really cheap! And they are all fresh from the oven!

I spotted my favorite danish, pastries,blueberry cheese tart, swiss roll and also japanese chiffon cake. Blueberry cheese tart was suppose for the girl’s next day breakfast. So happily I went back to PG with full load of RM 17 only for all of them. Could have cost me more than that at usual days! –

So the next morning came, and I woke up early to reheat the danish and pastries and blueberry cheese tart in my old fashion oven….not the microwave oven, though.

Read it write, i HEAT the BLUEBERRY CHEESE TART in the HOT OVEN. DING! Times up, and when i open the oven door, i really got a shock of my life, to see the soggy and soft cheese looking as if it is going to melt in the tart base!

Then only I realize that what on earth should I need to reheat a BLUEBERRY CHEESE TART? That’s insane.

But it happen early the morning at around 6.30am. I would have to blame it on the blurry eyes and brains.

Silly me yuh!

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Ever tempted by the advertisement how good a garlic crusher is? Me too. I was so tempted that I nearly bought it. But I am glad I didn’t because that will add up to another kitchen utensil a.k.a. white-elephant-kitchen-cabinet.

I don’t believe in crushing a lot of the garlic together and keep it in the refrigerator — simply because the natural nutrients of garlic will be lost by storing it for days. Fresh garlic should be cooked as soon.

Then finally I realized that it is just so easy to crush garlic: easy and fast, and easy washing too!

What I need are:

• knife which is about 2-3 inches wide(just pick it from your kitchen) which is the one usually used for chopping
• normal chopping board
• Pestle — yes, you name it right, a traditional pestle, but do away with the bulky mortar. Just leave your mortar aside.
• Cloves of garlic, of course.

Method 1: (Knife and chopping board only)

1. Divide garlic into individual cloves.
2. Place them on the chopping board.
3. Place your knife flat so that you can press on the garlic.
4. You dont have to hit it like the grandmother does, so simply press the flat surface of the knife
5. And ta-da, the garlic, will be crushed.
6. Peel off the garlic skin.
7. Cut the garlic, clove by clove, horizontally, on all, then vertically.
8. If the garlic are still too thick, cut horizontally once and vertically once again.
9. Then wash away the residue with running water on the knife and chopping board.

Method 2: (With help of pestle)

1. Divide garlic into individual cloves.
2. Place them on the chopping board.
3. Crushed the garlic with the pestle, make sure this is done on the kitchen surface which is hard (not wood). Crushed once will do.
4. And ta-da, the garlic, will be crushed.
5. Peel off the garlic skin.
6. Cut the garlic, clove by clove, horizontally, on all, then vertically.
7. If the garlic are still too thick, cut horizontally once and vertically once again.
8. Then wash away the residue with running water on the pestle, knife and chopping board.

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Ever wonder why your vegetables turn yellow in the refrigerator before you have time to cook it? Most of us tend to shop once a week to stock up whatever we want. Vegetables such as broccoli, is among the most prone to turn yellowish after 2-3 days.

Here is how I do it immediately after the shopping session:

1. Wash under tap water to clean off the dirt (if any) – just like normal

2. Pour 1 cap of Braggs Apple Cider Vinegar plus 200-400 ml of tap water into a plastic container –aluminum or stainless steel or ceramic are not encouraged due the acidic nature of vinegar.

3. Dip the vege into the dilution.

4. Wait for about 3-4 minutes.

5. Pour away the dilution and shake out access water from the vege — No need to dry vegetables completely.

6. You may now store these vegetables in air tight container.

If you do not have air tight container, a container such as ice cream /pop corn plastic container will be equally good.

Vegetables Recipes

Low Carb Diabetic Recipes

Although alcohol is not itself a proven cancer-causing agent, excessive drinking is related to an increased risk of developing cancers of the mouth, throat, oesophagus, prostate, rectum and liver. Individuals who drink heavily and smoke multiply their risk of developing these cancers. Alcohol is also calorie-dense and so contributes to the cancer risk associated with obesity.
An intake of one to two standard drinks a day (equivalent to 8 to 20 g of ethanol) is compatible with good health. More than an average of 40 g of alcohol a day poses a health risk for some people and an intake above 80 g daily impairs health in the long term. Nutritionists recommend combining alcohol and food consumption, as this reduces the effects of alcohol on body metabolism.

Low Carb Diabetic Diet