Food For Thought Recipe Book
Simple recipes, incredible results, all plant-based recipe book.
Do you want to lose weight and keep it off? Would you like to lower your blood glucose management, your blood pressure and your lipids? Would you like to eat carbohydrates without worrying that your blood glucose level is going to go high? If you answered yes, to any of these you are in the right place.
The Food for Thought Recipe Book has 40 delicious plant-based recipes that are carbohydrate counted for you. These recipes have been prepared for you and are designed to help you to start eating more plant-based foods, this will help you to improve your insulin sensitivity. Each recipe contains nutritional information, including carbohydrate counting and bar code links to MyFitnessPal so that, if you choose to, you can log these recipes in your food diary
Why Eat More Plants?
Insulin resistance is the primary cause of pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes. NICE (the National Institute for Clinical Excellence) recently produced evidence showing that people with pre-diabetes reduced their risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 23% just by eating more plant-based meals. Another study, published in the British Medical Journal in 2012, found that when people with diabetes follow a whole food plant-based diet and subsequently eat more carbohydrates, that these people had significant improvements in; emotional wellbeing, physical wellbeing, quality of life, general health, HbA1c levels, weight, total cholesterol and Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol LDL’s (Toumpankis, et al., 2018).
But what about people with type 1 diabetes?
Many of us with type 1 diabetes follow diets that have carbohydrate restrictions, and some even follow low carbohydrate diets because this helps us to achieve stable blood glucose levels. The problem with this is that diets that are low in carbohydrates are high in fat and fat makes us resistant to insulin, the American Diabetes Association published a study showing that a meal containing just 20g of fat requires 6% more insulin than the same amount of carbohydrates with 0g of fat. The insulin resistance associated with this was shown to last for 73 minutes after the meal. If you eat 60g of fat your requirement for insulin increases by a staggering 21% of additional insulin and the insulin resistance from this fatty meal lasts for 105 minutes after you finish eating! (Bell et al. 2020).
How Is That Possible? I Have Always Been Told to Reduce My Carbohydrates…
According to the study “Preparing to Prescribe Plant-Based Diets for Diabetes Prevention and Treatment.” (Trapp, C., & Levin S., 2012) the biological factors may explain why a low-fat plant-based eating pattern is effective for your glycemic control including; a reduction in total fat intake, a reduction in saturated fat intake, improvements in insulin sensitivity, the glycemic index of plant-based foods may be lower despite the increase in carbohydrate intake.
OK Enough With All The Science!
Let’s be honest the science sounds great; but dull, but you just want to enjoy your food and using the food for thought recipe book you can do just that!
Download the Recipe Book Now and Enjoy.
