Which Fruits and Vegetables Containing Fiber Help Lower Blood Sugar Levels?
Fiber is one of the diabetic’s best friends. Fiber can help lower blood sugar levels, blood cholesterol levels, and weight, as well as help you feel full with fewer calories and fewer carbs. Here are five things every diabetic needs to know about fiber: 1. Fiber has zero calories and zero carbs. Food labels list fiber as part of total carbohydrate but the carbohydrates in fiber are not digestible. They do not raise blood sugars, and it’s OK to subtract grams of fiber from total grams of carbohydrate if you are counting carbs. Diabetics still need to count non-fiber carbohydrates against their totals for each meal and each day. 2. Fiber helps lower post-prandial (after-meal) blood sugar levels. Fiber fills your stomach and slows the release of digested food from your stomach into your intestine. This slows down the release of sugars into your bloodstream so that the pancreas has more time to make insulin to keep blood glucose levels low. 3. Fiber helps you feel full so you don’t want to
