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Looking for diabetes-friendly snack ideas? These 4 low-sugar snacks are perfect for stabilizing blood sugar, satisfying hunger, and supporting your health goals.
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so when you're picking out snack for
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yourself as a diabetic patient or for
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someone who is diabetic you will
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definitely ask yourself which snacks do
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i pick of course the goal here is to
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maintain the glucose levels at a normal
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range you want to have full control of
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your blood glucose levels another as a
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diabetic
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patient
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started so as a diabetic patient is
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always recommended that we eat six times
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in a day those are the three main meals
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with three healthy snacks in between
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those three main meals
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this is what you call the small frequent
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means and this is why for an additive
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patient you don't want to have sudden
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sugar spikes
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and that is why you encourage small
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frequent meals so that your body can
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take up the sugar from this food slowly
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hence avoiding the sudden sugar spikes
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hyperglycemia
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so the three
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most important things to consider when
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you're choosing snacks is the dietary
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fiber the protein content and wheat fat
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okay the dietary fiber
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the protein content in which
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fat so as a diabetic individual you want
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to choose snacks that are high in fiber
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you know
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the high the fiber slows down digestion
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also slows down how your body takes the
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glucose from the food that we eat
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number two you want to choose snacks
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that are high in protein rather than
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high in carbohydrates so less
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carbohydrates more protein and number
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three you want to choose snacks with
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healthy fats rather than
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saturated fast less less saturated fats
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and more of the healthy fats so which
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are these snacks in this video i'm going
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to give us four good examples of snacks
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you can take when uh when you're
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diabetic to have a full control of your
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blood glucose flavor so number one snack
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is grounds because grownups are very
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easy to prepare and to carry around you
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can have a small thing like this and
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carry groundnuts around so that you can
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have them as a snack between your meals
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and why is it important for you to
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prefer the groundwork over items like
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the biscuits the cookies the white bread
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is because grommets are high in fiber
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they contain potassium
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calcium all these good minerals they
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also contain protein they're a very good
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source of protein and to adonate they
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have healthy fats okay very easy to
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prepare and they come with all these
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good good stuff
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high in fiber high in protein potassium
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and healthy fats this is so much better
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than the biscuits the cookies and the
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white bread okay
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number two snack is eggs but how do you
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cook your eggs so as a diabetic
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individual you want to boil your eggs
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rather than
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frying them okay
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the cooking method you choose is
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important as a diabetic patient you not
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only want to choose
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which snacks but you also want to
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consider which cooking method was used
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which preparation method was used which
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pre-salvation method was used so that
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you you get the best of the results so
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boiling eggs ensure that you still get
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the proteins but with less saturated fat
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because frying introduces so much fat
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during cooking and that is not what we
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want for an additive patient so boiled
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eggs is another good snack for adiabatic
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patients because of the proteins it's
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the satiety
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and also the good control of your blood
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glucose levels but will you be eating
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eggs every day
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of course not because too much of
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anything is eventually poisonous
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the snack number three is a cup of
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porridge i'm talking about a small cup
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about 200 or 200 250 200 meals cup
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okay a cup of porridge you'll ensure you
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still you get the carbohydrates you need
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the energy you need to push you to the
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next meal satiety so that you don't
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snack on things like the chips the
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biscuits and also a cup of porridge
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gives nourishment you can enrich your
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porridge with the groundnuts the meal to
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make it better and more nourishing
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okay
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and the fourth knife is basically fruits
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do you remember in the video when you
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were talking about which fruits you
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should choose a diabetic individual and
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which fruits shouldn't you choose when
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you are diabetic so again we were
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talking about the glycemic index i have
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mentioned the glycemic index quite a
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number of times we settle for the fruits
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with the lower gi being the best and
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avocado is a very good example avocado
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gives you
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fiber it gives you healthy fats okay it
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gives you the vitamins that you need
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it's a low gi fruit which is nice but
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i'm not saying the mangoes the bananas
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with the pineapple should not be eaten
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but you need to master the skill of
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portion control you need to moderate how
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much of these fruits with the higher
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gi you're taking so that you'll be able
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to still maintain your blood glucose
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levels at a normal range
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so when you're talking about which uh
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snacks are good of course you want to
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establish which ones are not
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okay
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the sweets and the candies the sweetened
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drinks the energy drinks the package
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snacks that contain so much added sugar
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so much added fat so much added salts
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unnecessary things
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should be avoided
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this is because when you're eating all
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these fried potatoes the chips the
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sweetened drinks you're taking
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saturated fats you're taking sugars and
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of course you're risking yourself to a
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poor control of your blood glucose
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levels so this video just mentions four
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but which other snacks are you taking
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yogurt a cup of milk maybe tell me on
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the comment section below let's talk
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about it so thank you so much for
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joining me today i hope this video helps
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a little bit answers one or two of your
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questions and don't forget to subscribe
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until next time
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