I was raised on a slightly modified diabetic eating plan. My father was a type 1 diabetic so my mother always prepared our meals based on fathers diabetic needs. Now, as an adult, I find that there really is no healthier way of eating. Our meals were prepared from home grown vegetables, berries, orchard fruits and our main meat source was home grown animals, chickens, pigs and very rarely beef.
Science now proves that a diet low in carbs was a very healthy lifestyle. Sugar was restricted but we were never aware of this. We never felt deprived in any way. When you’re not exposed to excessive amounts of carbohydrates you also don’t crave them. A very little amount of sugar seemed to go a long way back then.
Compared then to now, the large choice of products on our grocery shelves don’t even allow us these easy to prepare healthy choices. I really do not understand why we, the public, don’t demand low carbohydrate products. Our lifestyles have changed, we are all too busy to prepare meals the way our mothers did. It should not automatically follow that every easily purchased product has to be packed with sugar.
Try finding a cookie that is not loaded with sugar. Now try finding the time to make your own healthy low carb cookies. Both tasks seem equally difficult. My wish is to be able to purchase products in any grocery store that adhere to low carb diet plans. This automatically makes them a healthy eating approach that fosters easy weight loss and keeps us from becoming another individual to join the tens of millions of people who are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes yearly.
