What Does it Mean to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes?

What Does it Mean to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes?

By Beverleigh H Piepers

So many people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes find themselves heading towards gradually increasing weight, slowly rising blood sugar levels, higher medication doses, and evidence of poor health issues becoming more obvious. To reverse type 2 diabetes means you need to reverse this trend.

If your weight has increased, it can decrease slowly. Your blood sugar levels can be lowered. Those increasing medication doses can also be removed. Cholesterol levels, heart disease, nerve pain in your feet… those pins and needles… they can all improve and/or disappear.

Do you think type 2 diabetes can go away altogether? Well, the genetic traits that helped make it possible for you to develop type 2 diabetes will not go away… but its not like type 1 diabetes where no matter what you do you will always need insulin injections irrespective of which food plan you followed.

Following a powerful food prescription, a healthy eating plan, will help you to reduce, even eliminate your medications, and send your blood sugar levels down so low that maybe no one will ever know you once had type 2 diabetes!

A healthy eating plan is, without doubt, the cornerstone of diabetes control. Food is the most effective and powerful tool for reversing type 2 diabetes… food has the ability to go after the root cause. Using food the right way can actually reverse that belly fat, insulin resistance and high blood sugar levels.

Healthy Eating with Diabetes:

Here are three main principles to remember about healthy eating and to reverse type 2 diabetes:

1. There's no such thing as a "diabetic diet". If you were handed a diet on a preprinted paper showing 1200, 1500 or 1800 calories… these so called diabetic diets need no longer exist. People with diabetes can follow healthy eating guidelines like those in the Dietary Guidelines for America… there's no need to eat any special foods.

2. Change your behaviors slowly and surely: Healthy eating habits and food choices may need some work… but try to not think of your eating plan as a "diet". Think of it as a way to help you slowly and surely change your eating habits forever.

3. Get an individualized eating plan: Its best to meet with a registered dietitian (RD) who specializes in diabetes medical nutrition. Your RD will work with you to develop a personalized eating plan. Your health, type 2 diabetes, nutrition goals, as well as your food preferences, should be included.

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