Ever wonder why our great, great grandparents were so happy and full of life?  …It was their lifestyle and diet.

Paleo, The Caveman Diet

The Paleo diet is one of the most popular diets around. The diet is highly effective and a long-term solution to a leaner and healthier body.
The Paleo diet is low on sodium and sugar but high in protein and moderate with the carb intake.

This is exactly why it is so effective in weight loss and keeping your diabetes issues in check. (There are many other ailments for which one would seek the Paleo Diet.)
There are many who have adopted a more Paleo way of eating and have seen all sorts of health problems disappear, eliminating acne and other skin problems, digestion problems, improving brain clarity and naturally, losing a lot of body fat that could help patients of diabetes.
The truth is that the Paleo Diet is simply the way that humans grew to eat over approximately 1.9 million years.
Eating in a similar fashion to our ancestors has been proven time and time again to offer amazing health benefits, including prevention of many “diseases of civilization” such as:

• Cancer
• Heart Disease
• Alzheimer
• Diabetes

This diet also presents the high protein low carb menus needed to shed extra pounds, especially in the case of the millions of people with Diabetes.
Which is a chronic condition that is mostly caused by diet and lifestyle?
One of the biggest misinterpretations about the Paleo Diet is that it’s a super low-carb diet or all meat-eating diet. This is NOT true!

There is no one single Paleo Diet, as our ancestors from all over the world ate dramatically different diets depending on the climate where they lived, their landscape, accessibility to water bodies, and the latitude in which they lived.
In some cases, a Paleo Diet may be 90% plant foods and 10% animal foods, and in other cases, a Paleo Diet may be 90% animal foods and 10% plant foods…

In the US, there are over 20 million people with diabetes, equal to 7% of the population. Do you or a loved one have diabetes and need all the help you can get managing this condition?

Diabetes and excess weight are very closely related; the risk of diabetes increases with weight gain. Your diet could potentially contribute to nutritional strategies for the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Fish is probably the most high-quality protein, it is loaded with nutrients, very low in fat and calories, and fatty fish gives you heart healthy mono and polyunsaturated fats.

Twenty-five percent of your calories should come from meats and other proteins. Meats should be as lean as possible so as not to add so much fat to your diet. Trim all visible fat from meats you are cooking and pour off any grease after pan-frying meats. The best way to eat meat is grilled, baked, or broiled with something to catch greasy drippings.

Soda and Juice

One of the worst things for diabetes is drinking sugar-containing sodas. These types of sodas contain as much as ten teaspoons of table sugar per can of soda. While you might think that switching to fruit juice is a good alternative, the truth is that juice can be almost as bad as soda

The problem with juice is that it contains all the sugar of the fruit it comes from and none of the fiber, which is contained in the pulp of the fruit that is removed in the juicing process. The juice alone dumps a large amount of sugar into the blood system over a very short period of time. If you like fruit, eat the whole fruit, complete with fiber that allows for a slower peak absorption of glucose after eating the food.

Fruits and Vegetables

Prediabetes is the best time to learn good ways to incorporate fruits and vegetables in your diet. Vegetables are technically better than fruit because they contain more complex carbohydrates than fruit. Complex carbohydrates are eventually broken down into simple carbohydrates but this burns fuel and allows for gradual absorption of glucose into the bloodstream.

Grease doesn't really affect pre-diabetes but it can add to your weight and this plays a strong role in developing diabetes.

It ís okay to eat starchy foods like potatoes, pasta, corn, and sweet potatoes as a prediabetic but don't make these foods the staples of your diet.

Limit the number of rich sauces and butter that you add to these starches as they can add to your weight and often contain a lot of salt, which isn't good for high blood pressure.

Don't forget the benefit of plant-based proteins like nuts, beans, and legumes.

Eat to lose weight

Unless you are of normal weight, the pre-diabetic state is a good time to bring your weight down to a lower level, ideally into a body mass index of 25 or less.

 Even a 5% to 7% reduction in body weight can prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes.