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Diabetes Diet

Managing type 2 diabetes or prediabetes can often feel overwhelming, especially when it comes to knowing what to eat.

Focusing on the right diabetes diet is a crucial step in keeping your blood sugar levels in check, supporting weight loss, reducing medication dependency, and helping you feel your best.

In fact, diet and nutrition are the primary natural treatment strategy for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes!

Here at DMP we cover a wide range of diet and nutrition topics specifically tailored for people with type 2 diabetes or prediabetes.

Whether you're looking to learn more about carbohydrates and how they affect your blood sugar, how to start your diet plan, you're curious about the best beverages to drink, or want to explore the best low carb diabetes diet guidelines and tips, we've got you covered.

Here’s a glimpse of what you may find here:

  • Understanding Carbohydrates: Carbs are a big deal when it comes to blood sugar management, but not all carbs are created equal. We’ll break down everything from simple to complex carbs, helping you make informed choices about which ones to include and which to limit in your diet. You’ll find easy-to-follow advice on how to enjoy carbs while minimizing medication and keeping blood sugar levels stable.
  • Smart Beverage Choices: It’s not just about what you eat—what you drink matters too. You can find guidance on selecting the best beverages for blood sugar control, hydration, and overall health. From water and herbal teas to which sweeteners to avoid, we’ve got the lowdown on sipping smart.
  • Curbing Hunger and Cravings: Managing hunger at night and sugar cravings can be one of the most challenging aspects of a diabetes-friendly diet. We’ll share practical tips and proven strategies to help you stay on track, feel satisfied, and avoid those tempting foods that can send your blood sugar soaring.
  • Low Carb Diet Facts: Are you wondering whether a low carb diet is right for you with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes? Learn the facts about how reducing carbohydrates can benefit blood sugar levels, promote weight loss, and help you achieve better overall health. We’ll cover everything from low carb meal ideas to understanding the impact of carbs on your body to putting a low carb diet into practice.
  • Weight Loss Diet Tips: Weight management is a key aspect of controlling blood sugar levels, and we provide info on the best diabetes weight loss diet to get results, and tips that make it easier to shed those extra pounds while keeping your blood sugar in check. Our trusted advice covers everything from portion control to meal planning to  beverages that boost metabolism, ensuring you stay on track without feeling deprived.

Evidence-Based Information You Can Trust

Our goal is to empower you with practical, science-backed diabetes diet and nutrition information that you can use in your everyday life.

Whether you're newly diagnosed or have been managing diabetes for years, this is the go-to spot for trustworthy, easy-to-understand guidance on how to make dietary choices that support your health.

You’ll discover how to make lasting changes to your diet that can help lower blood sugar levels, improve A1c, and even reduce your dependence on medications.

If you have type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, you will appreciate simple explanations that take the confusion out of managing your diet, and gain confidence in your ability to take control of your blood sugar and health.

Is Gluten Free Good for Diabetes and Blood Sugar?

Many people with type 2 diabetes and prediabetes automatically think that following a gluten-free diet is going to help their blood sugar levels. While it certainly can, unfortunately it’s not …

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Diabetes Friendly Food List

Here at Diabetes Meal Plans our diet philosophy focuses on a natural whole foods, lower carb approach. This is a scientifically proven diet and nutrition strategy that can help you gain control over …

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10 Low Carb Low Fat Snacks

If you’re following a low carb diet, you don’t have to eat low carb low fat snacks. It’s a natural consequence of reducing carbs that you would increase fat intake, along with …

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Type 2 Diabetes: How Many Carbs Per Meal

If you’ve had a type 2 diabetes diagnosis for more than about 5 minutes, you may have come across some misguided nutrition advice stating that you can eat several hundred grams of carbohydrates every …

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15 Diabetic Carbohydrate Questions Answered

Carbs, carbs, carbs. Without a doubt being a person with diabetes, you need to know as much as possible about the whole carbohydrate ordeal. And when it comes to carbs, we get tons of questions on the …

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Carbs vs Sugar for Type 2 Diabetes

Carbs vs sugar – this area of nutrition seems to be a very common confusion, especially in terms of managing diabetes. One of our readers recently said: “I’m trying to figure out …

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#1 Food For A Heart Healthy Diabetic Diet (Plus 1-Day Menu Sample)

I bet you’re curious to know what the number one food for a heart healthy diabetic diet is? The food is VEGETABLES, which is really a food group rather than one specific food. We harp on a lot …

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Diabetes Food Pyramid: Lower Blood Sugar & A1c

*21 Day Lower Blood Sugar Challenge™: Your challenge task is at the bottom of this page. Regardless of where you live around the globe, we’re all familiar with the food pyramid, right? …

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Carb Class for Type 2 Diabetes

As a person with type 2 diabetes one of the first nutrients you become aware of are carbs. There is a good reason for that and it all has to do with your blood sugar and A1c levels. We recently ran a …

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Carbs vs Sugar: What Should I Focus on with Type 2 Diabetes?

We recently got asked the question: If I have to concentrate on one thing in my diet, is it carbohydrates or sugars? Quick answer: With type 2 diabetes, carbohydrates are the nutrient that affect …

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American Diabetes Association Low Carb Diet Recommendations

Here at DMP we’ve been encouraging people to eat a low carb diet since 2015. Back then the American Diabetes Association recommendations suggested people with type 2 diabetes eat 75 grams of …

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What can I eat and what can’t I eat with type 2 diabetes?

For better blood sugar and A1c control, the best foods to eat are whole foods low in carbohydrates such as non starchy vegetables, protein sources, healthy fats, fresh and dried herbs and spices, …

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Diabetes Shopping Tips

Grocery shopping can feel like an overwhelming undertaking when you must stick to a diabetes-friendly eating plan.  You may feel your options are limited, or that managing meal after meal by …

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Low Fat Diet For Diabetes: Is It A Thing Of The Past?

For several decades health organizations worldwide have been recommending we eat a low fat diet. And a high carb, low fat diet for diabetes has been the common recommendation of diabetes organisations …

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10 Deliciously Tasty Diabetic Dinner Recipes

If you’re after deliciously diabetic dinner recipes, look no further – below you’ll find a collection of 10 tasty meals. They are not only mouthwatering good, they are easy to make …

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Type 2 Diabetes Lunch Ideas

A healthy lunch is an important part of your diabetic meal plan.  But when it comes to choosing low carb options that don’t make your blood sugar levels go up dramatically, you may be …

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Glucerna for diabetes: Nutrition facts and research

You can barely walk through a grocery store without seeing dozen of products aimed specifically at type 2 diabetics. Power bars, protein drinks, weight loss aids, and meal replacement shakes line the …

Read moreGlucerna for diabetes: Nutrition facts and research

Sample Menu for Type 2 Diabetes

*21 Day Lower Blood Sugar Challenge™: Your challenge task is at the bottom of this page. Here at Diabetes Meal Plans we encourage a low carb diet because research shows it outperforms any other diet …

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Protein Intake and Diabetes

Protein is a much needed nutrient that makes up the structure of your entire body. But when it comes to type 2 diabetes, you may be wondering if you need to alter your protein intake. The short answer …

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How To Reduce A1C

Today’s reader question: My A1c is high and I need help or suggestions to lower it. I’m feeling so frustrated, please help?! Without a doubt, knowing how to reduce A1c is incredibly …

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Myths About Baking Soda and Diabetes

When you Google “baking soda and diabetes” you may find some interesting articles about acidity and its relationship to the pancreas, liver and blood sugar control.  While baking soda is a useful …

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Does Vinegar Lower Blood Sugar?

How Can Vinegar Potentially Help You? Research shows vinegar may help: How Does Vinegar Help Lower Blood Sugar Levels? Researchers still aren’t exactly clear on how vinegar helps. What they do know is …

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Vegetables to AVOID for Better Blood Sugar Control

“Eat your vegetables!” It’s a common piece of nutrition advice we all hear. And when it comes to eating vegetables, it’s one of the only areas that all nutritionists agree on – we need to eat …

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Type 2 Diabetic Diet Basics: Best Strategy to Lower Blood Sugar With Diet

So you’ve had type 2 diabetes a while but you still can’t determine the diabetic diet basics and what’s best to eat to lower blood sugar and A1c. Or perhaps you’re newly …

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Busting The Myths About Foods High In ‘Bad’ Cholesterol!!

I did my Nutrition Masters thesis surrounding the topic of heart disease and inflammation. I really wanted to do it on a topic directly related to type 2 diabetes, but at the time this project was the …

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McDonald’s for Diabetes: What Can I Eat?

Without a doubt, the golden arches of McDonald’s are one of the most recognizable symbols in the world.  This fast food empire spans over 34,000 restaurants in 119 countries, so …

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Potassium and Diabetes: Understanding It’s Importance

Diabetes and potassium share a close relationship. Potassium is needed to assist with insulin secretion and therefore, blood sugar regulation. It’s also closely linked to heart health. …

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Low Carb Diet with Diabetes: History, Facts & Real Results

Here at Diabetes Meal Plans, we have been encouraging people to eat a low carb diet with diabetes, for years. We consider ourselves pioneers in the field, because when we started sharing this …

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Weekly Diabetes Meal Planning Service

When you have type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, meal planning can be a challenge, right? When you’re looking around online at all the delicious food pictures and recipes, you can find that many of …

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Foods To Lower Blood Sugar

The number one factor that impacts your blood sugar level is what you eat. Most people living with type 2 diabetes or prediabetes know what types of foods contribute to higher blood sugar – the …

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Calcium and Diabetes: The Unknown Facts Revealed

Did you know that insulin and calcium work side-by-side to manage your blood sugar levels all day long?  Most people aren’t aware that having either too much or too little calcium in their …

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Is A Low Fat Or Low Carb Diabetic Diet Best?

I apologize up front that this info is long winded – but I am very passionate about this subject. ;) For decades dietary guidelines and health organizations have been recommending we eat a low …

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15 Low Carb Diabetic Thanksgiving Dinner Recipes

Thanksgiving. It’s meant to be an enjoyable time but it can all get a bit daunting when you’re diabetic. There’s so much delicious food to be eaten and most of it is not diabetic …

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What Is A Complex Carbohydrate?

In a previous post, we covered simple carbohydrates. The short of it is that a simple carbohydrate is a short chain of sugar that doesn’t require digestive processing. This means it uptakes into the …

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Type 2 Diabetes and Zinc

Vitamins and minerals are essential to good health. But when you have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, you risk being deficient of nutrients. We’re here today to share detailed information about …

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T2 Diabetic Carbs Per Day Recommendations

Did you know that one of the most commonly asked questions we get is how many carbs per day is best for a diabetic to eat? And like many other people you may also be totally confused by that question? …

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Vegetarian Protein Sources for Your Diabetes Diet

Without a doubt, eating healthy protein sources is critically important to good health. And as a vegetarian following a diabetes diet, protein can be a little more confusing since it’s not as …

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What Is A Simple Carbohydrate?

When it comes to carbohydrates it can be confusing, right? You might have heard of complex carbs, that sugar is a carb, and glucose…is that the same as sugar, and what is a simple carbohydrate …

Read moreWhat Is A Simple Carbohydrate?

Can Cinnamon Lower Blood Sugar?

Cinnamon for diabetes – perhaps you’ve browsed over some info that suggests it’s beneficial for lowering blood sugar or to use for various other aspects of diabetes treatment – that’s what …

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Eating for Type 2 Diabetes TREATMENT – Different to Diabetes Prevention

You know… it’s really interesting because when you read information online that’s meant to be for type 2 diabetes treatment, it’s often based on evidence for diabetes …

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