Five Surprising Meals That Type 2 Diabetics Can Eat

Don’t let the diagnosis mean despair for your diet!

Diabetes dates back 3,000 years when the people of Egypt, India, China and Greece began discovering people with excessive thirst, urination and weight loss. They even learned how to detect it in people and came up with treatments such as eating whole grains to reduce symptoms.

Type 2 diabetes was thought to be relatively rare in those days, but it currently sits as the #7 killer in the United States and contributes to heart disease, which tops the list. So it’s no wonder that there is plenty of information out there about diabetes, how to treat it, and most importantly, what to eat if you have it.

In fact, there may be too much information.

If you are first reading up on a diabetes diet, you’ll read about low sugar, low carb, glycemic index and glycemic load. The words get tossed around a bunch, but which ones should you pay most attention to? And do you really need to regularly eat dinners that are made up of skinless chicken, a cup of steamed broccoli and a handful of almonds?

First, I’m not a doctor. I can only tell you what I learned when researching what I should eat to treat my type 2 diabetes. I am good at researching, though, and what I found out about diabetes diets surprised me. The first thing…