Need help balancing your blood sugar for healthy ageing? Check out this cheat sheet for blood sugar balancing foods – ensure you enrich your meals with foods from this list and work on eliminating any excess sugar from your regular diet.
Lean, clean protein
- Chicken
- Grass-fed red meat
- Fish
- Eggs
- Whey protein powder
- Plant based, high fibre protein (legumes, beans, peas, pea protein powders)
Healthy Fats
- Omega-3 rich eggs
- Salmon and other fatty fish
- Chia Seeds
- Flaxseeds, flaxseed oil
- Avocado, avocado oil
- Olives, olive oil
- Coconut, coconut oil, coconut milk
- Grass-fed ghee
- Raw, unsalted nuts and seeds, nut butters
High-fibre foods
- Fruits & Vegetables
- Beans & Peas
- Nuts & seeds
- Whole grains (especially gluten-free rolled oats and steel cut oats, quinoa, buckwheat, amaranth, teff & millet)
Other Foods
- All Herbs and Spices
- Garlic
- Ginger
- Raw Chocolate
- Apple cider vinegar
- Green tea
It is also known that to avoid sugar spikes to eat a meal with low GI properties first prior to eating anything high GI. So if you do want the occasional treat, choose to eat it as a desert after a main meal and not on an empty stomach. This will drastically reduce the sugar spike.
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