TYPE 2 DIABETES
🌷Safe to drink:
1. Water
2. Tomato juice
3. Unsweetened tea/ coffee.
🌷Drinks to avoid:
1. Regular soda
2. Energy drinks that contain sugar.
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Water
Water won’t raise your blood sugar levels. High blood sugar levels can cause dehydration. Drinking water eliminates excess glucose through urine. Consume daily 9/ 13 cups per day.
Water + create some variety by:
• adding slices of lemon, lime, or orange
• adding herbs- mint, basil
• crushing fresh or frozen raspberries.
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Low-fat milk
Choose unsweetened, low-fat, or skim versions of milk. Add nuts and blend-chill and drink.
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Dark Chocolate
Dark chocolate has calcium mix it with low-fat milk. This can be consumed after working out /physical activities / a gym.
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Hot Chocolate
Mix 1 cup of low-fat milk with 2 squares of dark chocolate, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, and a little cinnamon.
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Chocolate Milk
Low-fat chocolate milk .Mix milk, 3 teaspoons of cocoa powder, and 2 tablespoons of the zero-calorie sweetener.
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Protein drink
Protein Chocolate Smoothie
Cottage cheese, cocoa powder, and almond milk.
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Choc-coffee
Chocolate and coffee pairing- bitter sweet flavor --mixing 1 cup of brewed coffee with 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder, 2 tablespoons of low-fat milk, and a little of zero-calorie sugar substitute.
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Coffee
2 to 3 cups per day--caffeinated and decaffeinated coffees- unsweetened. Without adding milk, cream, or sugar to decrease the overall calorie count and not to affect blood sugar levels.
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Sweet Tea/ iced tea
Tea with crushed fruit (raspberries/ Strawberries). Strain, chill and add no-calorie sugar substitute.
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Chai Latte
Steep one or two chai tea bags in a cup of unsweetened almond milk or soy milk, and spice it up with cinnamon and black pepper for flavour.
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Tea
Drinking up to 3-4 cups a day might lower risk of type 2 diabetes. Choose green, black, or herbal tea, avoid added sugars. Create a refreshing taste with iced tea( chilled fragrant tea), with few slices of lemon/ jasmine green tea.
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Vegetable juice
Tomato juice or any vegetable juice alternative- blend of green leaf vegetables or cucumbers with a 2-3 berries for a flavourful (contains vitamins and minerals).
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Lemonade
Mix water, fresh-squeezed lemons and ice for a refreshing beverage without a single carb or calorie in sight.
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Orange Juice
Blend with ice and no added sugars/non sweeteners. The fiber keeps full.
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Cocktail
Grape-Pineapple Mint and no added sugar.
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Cranberry juice
Cran-Mango and Cran-Pineapple- only 2 grams of carbohydrates and 10 calories per serving, and provide cent percent of daily requirement for vitamin C.
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Sabza Seeds Cooler-ingredient in Faludas
Teaspoon of Sabza seeds, wash and put them in water, coconut water, or iced green tea.Shake them a little. Add ice cubes; add rock sugar/ raw honey/ or jaggery powder.
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Fruits and Veggies Smoothie
A glass of fresh coconut water, add a bowl of spinach, a piece of mango; a little bit of beetroot, blend away! Fresh smoothie ready. Mango adds some sweetness ,the spinach brings fibers, coconut water is to stay hydrated.
OR Cucumber, Mint & Watermelon Smoothie
OR berry smoothie------half a cup each of blueberries, strawberries, and banana. Blend with ice.
