Your "healthy" diet could be diabetes waiting to happen
-Meredith Sobel, sobelwellness.com, www.bettyconfidential.com
Diabetes affects one in 12 New Yorkers. Let's face it: That's more than a million people. I'd say that is a lot. I imagine you know more than 12 people? So, chances are you know at least one diabetic. Perhaps you are diabetic, or maybe a friend or a neighbor is. Diabetes is occurring more and more in children, and kids as young as 10 years old are being given diagnoses of what was once called adult-onset diabetes. Why is this?
Does it have something to do with our diet and our lifestyle? Perhaps. Let's consider this:
Breakfast: bagel and low-fat cream cheese, coffee with skim milk and two sugar packets
Lunch: tuna sandwich on white, rye or whole wheat bread; a pickle; baked potato chips and maybe an apple
Dinner: chicken, baked potato, steamed asparagus
Snack: low-fat yogurt, such as Dannon Fruit on the Bottom, and 10 baby carrots or an apple, two to three Diet Cokes, coffee from Starbucks, maybe a skinny cappuccino or latte with sugar-free syrup
This is a great low-fat, low-calorie diet, isn't it?
It's healthy! How could you possibly get diabetes eating this
kind of diet? Well, let's deconstruct it.
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