diabetes by 16%. Every little bit can help. To shed pounds, focus on reducing your calorie intake and moving more often to jumpstart this life-saving weight loss.
4. Reduce Your Carb Intake
Carbohydrates aren’t usually the first thing that comes to mind when you think of culprits for diabetes. However, carbohydrates break down in the body as sugar. It’s widely known that you can get sugar from fructose (fruits) glucose (sugar), or lactose (dairy). But you can also get sugar from starches (carbs), which includes bread, corn, potatoes, grains, and cereals.
All carbohydrates, whether they start out as starches or sugars, can raise your blood sugar levels and lead to insulin resistance, and ultimately diabetes. For this reason, watching your carb intake throughout the day can help you stabilize your blood sugar levels and reduce your risk for diabetes over time.
5. Eat Smaller Portions
Controlling diabetes is mostly about preventing sugar spikes so that your body can easily maintain healthy blood sugar levels. When you sit down to a meal and eat large amounts of food in one sitting, your blood sugar levels can get out of control, forcing your body to produce more insulin to bring your sugar levels back down.
If this is the case with every meal, you are putting your body at a higher risk of prediabetes and eventually diabetes, as your cells develop resistance to insulin over time. When you sit down to your