6 Ways to Reduce Insulin Resistance for Better Blood Sugar, According to Dietitians
eatingwell ^ | 11/30/2024 | Barbie Cervoni, M.S., RD, CDN, CDE
Posted on 12/05/2024 11:50:26 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Insulin resistance may not be on your radar, but it should be. This often-overlooked condition is a precursor to a host of metabolic conditions, especially prediabetes and diabetes.1 ,2
The good news is there are ways to protect against and even reverse insulin resistance. That’s important because cells rely on insulin all day, every day, to effectively use glucose for fuel. Plus, it can reduce your long-term risk of many chronic illnesses.
How can you protect against insulin resistance? Read on to learn all about insulin resistance, how it impacts your blood sugar levels, and the best ways to naturally prevent it.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: better; blood; dietitians; insulin; reduce; resistance; sugar
1. Eat More Plants
2. Reduce Saturated Fat
3. Move Your Body Daily
4. Prioritize Sleep
5. Be Mindful of Stress
6. Consider Weight Loss
To: ChicagoConservative27
Consider weight loss? How about doing it.
To: ChicagoConservative27
Going low carb and sometimes Carnivore, worked for me. It’s not easy because I love carbs, but you have to do what you have to do.
3 posted on 12/05/2024 11:56:09 AM PST by HerrBlucher
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Yeah, I doubt if just considering weight loss does anything.
To: ChicagoConservative27
What kind of confusing obfuscation is this?
Goofy as hell
1. Eat More Plants
-maybe to a degree, if you also don’t buy that 96oz ‘big gulp’ at 711!!!!
2. Reduce Saturated Fat
-completely unrelated!
3. Move Your Body Daily
- good advice but would only be a tertiary benefit to insulin resistance, if it improves metabolism holistically. Otherwise, this is nothing else other than good advice but not pertinent.
4. Prioritize Sleep
- good advice. Not directly pertinent. Rest/recuperation have positive health effect but are not directly pertinent.
5. Be Mindful of Stress
- Stress hormones on a chronic level have obvious health implications. Not directly pertinent to insulin resistence though.
6. Consider Weight Loss
- Probably the best advice in the list, but the long term recovery from insulin resistance will likely be a side effect to effective weight lost which would not likely happen unless indulgent consumption of processed foods were consistently avoided
5 posted on 12/05/2024 12:01:53 PM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
I’ve considered it for years................🙄
6 posted on 12/05/2024 12:04:16 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: ChicagoConservative27
No reduce SUGAR....or simple CARBS? typical dietician
7 posted on 12/05/2024 12:05:14 PM PST by goodnesswins (Don’t be REALITY PHOBIC!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Those are all really good except the last one. I’ve been considering weight loss for several decades and it hasn’t changed my insulin resistance one bit.
8 posted on 12/05/2024 12:06:10 PM PST by webheart
To: ChicagoConservative27
Regular fasting. It’s in the Bible.
9 posted on 12/05/2024 12:07:17 PM PST by John 3_19-21 (The storm is coming.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Merely “considering” weight loss won’t do much. :-)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Yep, quick and significant weight loss.
To: z3n
Being “mindful” of stress isn’t particularly avoidable if you’ve got it. That’s often the problem...
To: ChicagoConservative27
Eat More Plants / Reduce Saturated Fat
Both are totally bogus. Insulin resistance is rooted in too many carbs too often. Plants have carbs. Beef does not. Nor can saturated fat cause significant glucose (and therefor insulin) spikes.
I’m not saying insulin is totally unaffected by beef or saturated fat, but it is far less harmful than simple carbs. Starches. Which many plants have in abundance.
“Eating well” is a TERRIBLE source of information on diets!
13 posted on 12/05/2024 12:11:49 PM PST by Mr Rogers
To: z3n
14 posted on 12/05/2024 12:12:29 PM PST by Mr Rogers
To: ChicagoConservative27
FASTING is a big one. I did a 5-6 day water fast and my insulin was much more sensitive for months.
Later I lost 40 lbs, so now I’m doing very well.
15 posted on 12/05/2024 12:12:56 PM PST by struggle
To: one guy in new jersey
Yep, quick and significant weight loss.
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You might want to re-word that with your definition of “quick”.
16 posted on 12/05/2024 12:20:24 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
To: struggle
To: ChicagoConservative27
bump for reference. Sounds like simple and great advice for all kinds of health conditions.
18 posted on 12/05/2024 12:23:43 PM PST by Robert357
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