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- Hi, I'm Dr. Ken Berry, Family Physician, and in this short video, let's discuss diabetic breakfast foods. Let's talk about five really good options and five really bad ones. Millions of diabetics, both type 1 and type 2, get terrible dietary advice
from the public media, from the American Diabetes Association. This advice actually lasts and worsens diabetes. And so I'm trying to get
some good information for diabetics about what they should eat for breakfast and that's what this video is about. I will give reasons to support this advice after each example.
If you know a patient with diabetes, whether it is type 1, type 2, or hidden autoimmune diabetes
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it helps me to help people. Now let's talk about these
five good and five bad options Diabetics
listen to this now, I want you to pay careful attention to this. I want you to use a glucometer or a continuous glucose tracker, a continuous glucose tracker to check what I'm saying. I don't want you to blindly believe what the American Diabetes Association says, nor do I want you
to blindly believe me. I want you to listen to your body and the way you do that
as a diabetic is by checking your blood sugar.
So 30 minutes after you eat that breakfast, 60 minutes or 90 minutes for the first time you try the breakfast I recommend versus the breakfast recommended by the American
Diabetes Association or any other body. Check your blood sugar 30 minutes later, 60 minutes later and 90
minutes after eating that meal. This will give you the answer. Because if
your blood sugar goes to the highest level, it doesn't matter what kind of nutrition is in that food, that's bad food for you as a diabetic. Now let's discuss these five foods. Number one good food is eggs. When you eat an egg or two or five, you get all the
amino acids and all the fatty acids, both of these fatty acids
and the amino acids are essential, that means you can't make them, you have to get them from your diet. Eggs are the perfect source for it. The more pastured and natural the eggs are, the higher the omega-3 content and the higher the vitamins and minerals. Eggs are as close to a perfect food or multivitamin as you can have for breakfast.
Then also you will have almost no variation in blood sugar at all. And this is something I want you to verify. The number one bad food is oatmeal. Oatmeal is made from oats, and whether it's instant oatmeal, or it's this kind of oatmeal that you have to chop up and cook on the stove for three days, and it's made from carbohydrates and from grains. All carbohydrates break down into glucose and fructose. Glucose causes your
blood sugar to spike. Fructose makes you store fat in your liver. Both of these things are terrible for diabetics. There is no beneficial vitamin
or mineral content in oats.
All you can do
to make oats palatable is add sugar, honey, or agave nectar. All of these will raise your
blood sugar level more and more. Number two
good food examples are avocados and avocados have 500 milligrams of potassium per 100 gram serving. It also has only 8 grams of carbohydrates per 100 grams of serving. And it's full of vitamins and minerals,
and a great potassium content, much better than bad food number 2, which is bananas. Bananas are gifted from heaven as the ultimate source of potassium you can get in your diet.
This is utter crap, a banana has 350 milligrams of potassium per 100 grams. It has 22 grams of carbohydrates per 100 grams. This will cause your
blood sugar to skyrocket, while the avocado does not. Good food number three
is bacon. If you want
unprocessed bacon, that's fine. If you want to eat
cheap bacon from China Matt, that's okay too. You'll get a full spectrum of essential amino acids and essential fatty acids
from bacon. If you get pastured bacon, this will give you more of the omega-3 fatty acids your
body needs, and it will have more vitamins and minerals.
Bad food number three is English muffin. Some nutritionists out there seem to think that if bread is hard to chew
or the bread is tough, that somehow makes it a
better source of carbohydrates. English muffins are made from wheat. Wheat is full of carbohydrates, which break down into glucose and fructose. One raises your blood sugar, and the other builds up toxins in your liver. There is no meaningful nutrition in English muffin, so please don't eat it. And remember, if you've already tried it, check your glucose
after 30, 60, and 90 minutes using your glucometer. The number four good food to have for
breakfast for diabetics is steak. Meat from any bovine source whether grass-fed, grass-fed, or the cheapest steak you can
buy on the China market will give you the full spectrum of essential amino acids, the full spectrum of
essential fatty acids, and tons of vitamins and minerals that even the cheapest and worst cooked steak will be.
Full of minerals and vitamins. There is no arguing about that. Bad food number four
is muesli with berries.
Muesli is basically raw oats which we call different names so you don't have to say, yeah, I 'm going to have oats again this morning and they're soaking them in liquid, usually in skim milk
to make them barely chewable. Then most people add some
berries or some nuts. Nuts are fine, but muesli and berries break down to 100% glucose and fructose. And again you know what these two elements do. Not a good breakfast, although it looks very European, very seafood, it will cause your blood sugar to spike
, please check it out. Good breakfast food number five for diabetics is full-fat Greek yogurt
with a good sprinkle of nuts. This will give you all the
amino acids you need, all the fatty acids you need plus quite a few
vitamins and minerals, not a great breakfast food but pretty darn if you like some variety as a diabetic.
The number five worst food for diabetics. Because I've kept the worst for last, it's the cereal with skim milk. Any cereal that comes in a box on this planet is a terrible diabetic food. I don't care what the label says, how big the healthy heart sticker
on the box is, it's crap. It is nothing but beans that have been processed and ground. They have added some
fake vitamins and minerals to it. And then when you pour skim milk on it, you get more sugar. So the grains in your breakfast cereal and the lactose in the milk will break down into glucose, fructose, and galactose, all of which will cause your blood sugar to spike.
The fructose and galactose will help you
store more fat in your liver, which is another bad thing. So, now I'm going to leave you with this parting idea. Maybe you should skip breakfast? More and more diabetics are discovering that, contrary to popular opinion, breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but breakfast is an optional meal. You can sip on some
black coffee, unsweetened tea, or some sparkling water, and that's enough. Any time you delay eating, your blood sugar will drop below normal and the insulin you make inside your body or the insulin you take from injections will go down because you just don't need as
much insulin. This is a very good place for diabetics to keep a diabetic with a
low level of sugar in his blood in addition to a normal
low level of insulin in his body. So if I wanted to, well, if I skipped breakfast, I would have hunger pangs. So I made a video about that. And I'm going to put it here, at the end of this video, please subscribe to this channel and click the little bell next to the subscribe button, so that every time I put a bright idea like this, you get to be one of the first to know.
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right human diet, both diabetic and non-diabetic. Alright guys, this is Dr. Berry. See you next time..
