The Paleo style diet has been all the craze over the past couple of years, but have you ever wondered if this type of diet could help you better manage your diabetes?

Before I share some hot facts on the topic, let’s take a look at what this diet is all about.

What is a Paleo Diet?

A Paleo style diet is one that focuses on getting back to our roots, eating what our ancestors once ate. It’s all about enjoying food that our body can recognize and properly digest and breakdown.

This excludes things like refined sugar, gluten, soy, dairy, and processed foods.

Instead, you enjoy things like fruits, veggies, meats, fish, nuts, and seeds.

How Does a Paleo Diet Help Manage Diabetes?

So how does this diet help support diabetes management? At first glance, it looks like this diet would be an excellent start for eliminating excess sugar from your diet, processed foods, and refined carbohydrates. That’s a huge step in the right direction as these are all food to avoid when you have diabetes or just want to live a healthy lifestyle.

The Paleo diet emphasized whole and real foods which is exactly what your body need. Studies have shown that the Paleo diet is an excellent way to assist in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes as well as metabolic problems.

What’s the Research Saying?

Don’t just take my word for it, here’s some research to back it up!

A study was conducted that compared the Paleo diet to a “low fat diabetes-diet.” The results were impressive. They found that those with Type 2 diabetes who followed the Paleo diet had better improvements in waist circumference, blood pressure, blood sugar as well as triglyceride levels than those who followed the “low-fat diabetes diet.”

How About Lifestyle?

The Paleo diet is more than just focusing on what you eat: it’s also about the lifestyle you live. This diet emphasizes the importance of moving the body by getting enough exercise, getting at least 7-8 hours of sleep per night, taking care of your digestive health, and of course managing stress levels.

These are all super important parts of managing diabetes.

If you are looking to start a new diet, and one that can be sustainable and help you better manage your diabetes, the Paleo diet may be one to look into!

The results are promising, and the lifestyle component of the diet is an impressive way of taking your health into your own hands.

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