What Is A Perfect Low Sugar Diet?

Monday, November 14, 2011, 11:11

If you are reading up on a low sugar diet then you are either looking to lose some quick weight or you are approaching the label of 'diabetic'? We rarely look out to eradicate 'sweetness' from our life voluntarily unless there is a very pressing problem. Diabetes or constant high blood sugar levels are a good enough reason to get wary because it can cause havoc in your life. Even if you are looking for weight loss, low sugar foods could actually prevent a lot of far reaching ill effects of obesity in your life.

If you have to go on an low sugar diet then you have to substitute the sugar elements in your diet with alternatives that have less sugar.

Tips To Plan A Low Sugar Diet:

1. Honey For Sugar: If you can replace the sugar you use to sweeten all your beverages like tea, coffee, juices, etc then you can cut on a very huge portion of your sugar intake. Just calculate this way, how many cups of coffee or tea do you drink at office? The answer would never be less than 2 and can go up to 5 or more. Even if you take 1 teaspoon of sugar it is 40 calories!

2. Fibre Rich Cereals For Rice: Most Indian have a staple food that consists either of rice or wheat based products like Indian breads (roties). Both of these are not the best low sugar foods to have because they are carbohydrates. White rice is the worst of the lot because it has a high starch content. Whatever carbohydrates you consume must have a higher fibre content. Brown rice, brown bread, rotis or bread made out of fibrous grains like bajra instead of normal polished wheat are your diet alternatives.

3. Diary Products: You can still have a glass of milk everyday but without sugar and also, prefer skimmed milk and low fat milk products like almond butter, low fat cheese, etc.

4. Avoid Root Vegetables: Potatoes, onions, beet roots and all other root vegetables have a very high sugar content. They have low water content and thus the sugar is concentrated. Strike of potatoes from your food list and consume the others in very small amounts. You need to have low sugar foods like broccoli, spinach, peas, baby corn (not sweet corn), etc.

5. Fruits Low In Sugar: Fruits are always good for your health but not all fruits are low in sugar content. If you are trying to loose weight or diabetic then your low sugar diet must not contain bananas, mangoes, pineapples as they are very fattening. You can have apples, all the berries (strawberry, gooseberry, etc), watermelon and most of the citrus fruits that are low in sugar. Have fruits with more water and fibre content; it will be filling and the sugar percentage will automatically come down.