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What is the best cookbook to lower blood sugar? ›

The Easy Diabetes Cookbook

The "Easy Diabetes Cookbook" is our top pick because it provides recipes for unique, delicious meals packed with nutrition. It's written by Mary Ellen Phipps, a Registered Dietitian, and she makes sure that each of the recipes is simple and accessible.

From the American Diabetes Association's Diabetes Forecast^® magazine, the world's best source for healthy eating, fitness and lifestyle information, comes the Family Classics Diabetes Cookbook, a collection of over 140 of the magazine's best diabetes-friendly recipes.

1. Broccoli and broccoli sprouts. Sulforaphane is a type of isothiocyanate that has blood sugar-reducing properties.

Eating protein — from meat and fish, tofu, nuts, eggs, and cheese — with carbs can slow that flow of glucose and help stabilize blood sugar. “Proteins hold back the sugars, slow them down, and then release them into the bloodstream slowly so that your blood sugar stays in a more normal range,” O'Meara says.

Eating a carbohydrate-rich breakfast followed by a substantial lunch and a small dinner — the so-called "three-meal diet" (3Mdiet) — promotes weight loss and significantly improves glucose control in type 2 diabetes, a randomized, controlled trial suggests.

Choose breakfast foods that are packed with fiber, like whole-grain bread, low-added-sugar fiber-rich cereals or oats. Incorporate more produce at breakfast. "You can add berries into yogurt or on top of oatmeal, include vegetables in your omelet or add avocado to your toast," suggests Palinski-Wade.

The Diabetes Cookbook is a free cookbook that provides delicious recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The Diabetes Cookbook is part of a collection of over 12 cookbooks published digitally by Diabetes.co.uk.

The quickest way to lower your blood sugar is to take fast-acting insulin. Exercising is another fast, effective way. However, in severe cases, you should go to the hospital. High blood sugar levels are known as hyperglycemia or high blood glucose.

Editor's summary. Drinking water is an excellent way to stay hydrated without consuming sugar. Green tea, cow's milk, and fermented milk (kefir) could also help you manage your blood sugar responses. Coffee also contains compounds that may help regulate blood sugar, but confirming this requires more research.

What is the secret to lowering blood sugar? ›

Exercise is good for your health and can help lower your blood sugar. It's recommended you do at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise each week. You can split this up into small amounts throughout the week. Aim for a full body strength training routine two times per week.