Foods to Avoid on a Diabetic Diet
- Refined sugar, found in candies, syrups and sweeteners, is definitely a food to avoid. This spikes the blood sugar for diabetics and is difficult to process because it dumps sugar quickly into the blood supply.
- According to Marcelle Pick, OB/GYN NP, while aspartame, Splenda and other artificial sweeteners have no effect on blood sugar, studies show that ingesting fake sugar increases a craving for real sugar, something to avoid for diabetics (see Resources).
- Regular sodas are filled with sugar and sugary syrups that a diabetic person has difficulty processing.
- Foods like white bread, potatoes, pasta and other simple starches break down very quickly into sugar, having the same effect as regular sugar.
- Beware of high concentration of anything ending in "-ose," because they are all various types of sugars. Milk has a lot of milk sugar, or lactose; fruits like raisins and dried cranberries have fructose and glucose, found in many high starch (or glycemic) foods, is the chemical known as sugar.
