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What fruits should a Diabetic individual eat? || Simple Nutrition
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Jan 28, 2025
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so which fruits have you already stopped
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eating
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ever since you became diagnosed with
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diabetes
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the question here should be how much and
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not which foods to avoid when your
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diabetes welcome back to my channel this
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so the reason why this question keeps
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coming up is because most of these
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fruits like the mangoes
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the oranges the watermelon the pineapple
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already contained loads and lots of
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sugar in them and therefore it's just
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logic for patients with diabetes to
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worry about the sugar from these fruits
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affecting their blood sugar levels
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now when you're talking about fruits we
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need to talk about the glycemic index
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and the glycemic index is just how
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quickly or how fast your body absorbs
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the sugar from the foods that you ate so
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therefore when you're talking about
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fruits you also want to encourage foods
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with the low gi like the avocado the
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apples the berries as compared to fruits
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with the higher glycemic index like the
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bananas the mangoes the oranges you
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should note here that you're not i'm not
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saying that you should not eat these
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fruits however you need to make a smart
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choices uh using techniques like portion
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control you know fruits have so many
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benefits in your body including contact
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them containing fiber which improves
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your digestion aside from that it also
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reduces how fast sugar gets into your
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blood and therefore preventing high
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blood uh sugar levels at the same time
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they contain vitamins and minerals which
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promote health by improving your
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immunity preventing occurrences of many
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other diseases and infections also they
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contain
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anti-antioxidants which are very good in
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preventing also conditions like cancer
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and so on and so forth so therefore
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fruits have so many benefits for us to
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limit adiabatic patient from taking
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these fruits however making smart
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choices are like i've said is
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considering portion control right
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and also aside from doing portion
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control you also
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need to know that when you're diabetic
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before you cut off fruits you need to
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cut off these other sugary foods over
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processed foods like the cakes the
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biscuits the sodas that contain too much
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added sugars before you get to cut
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fruits because fruits aside from them
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having sugar
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they also have fiber vitamins minerals
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antioxidants so much benefit they're
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nutrient dense as compared to these
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other sugary foods that you need to cut
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when you become diabetic
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important to note is that we are talking
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about a whole fruit and not fruit jesus
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fruit juices when taken during meals and
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even if it's not during meals
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they may lead to hyperglycemia however
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the whole fruits contain fiber and
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therefore the sugar in these foods take
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a longer time to get into your blood and
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therefore the risk of hyperglycemia is
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not as high as when you take the fruit
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juices
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so while you're doing portion control
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you need to keep in mind the fiber the
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vitamins the good things that come with
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these fruits and therefore portion
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control to do portion control you need
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to understand servings so usually for a
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diabetic patient to encourage five
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servings of fruits every day okay
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alongside balance that you see
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the guidelines that the guidelines of
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healthy eating when you're diabetic
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already encourage half of your plate
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containing vegetables all right
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vegetables and fruits and therefore five
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servings over fruits every day would
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ensure you maintain a healthy weight and
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eventually you'll be able to moderate
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your blood sugar levels
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and so one serving is one serving of a
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fruit is usually one medium size of a
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fruit one medium sized banana one medium
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sized orange one medium sized mango and
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for the larger fruits of course you'll
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need to be wise and divide them into
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smaller pieces that you can eat over
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time okay important to note is that we
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are not limiting we are not stopping you
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from eating fruits however you need to
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make smart choices i'll keep saying that
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because it's totally up to you because
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fruits come in different sizes back at
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home i cannot tell you to divide it into
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half and i don't know how big the fruit
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is but once having one serving of a
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flute is usually one medium-sized throat
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and that is what is recommended all
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right for bigger and larger for the
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watermelon pineapple could be very very
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light so you cannot eat all of it or
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half of it that would be still two
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months so to answer your question is
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that even if you're diabetic you still
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have to enjoy the benefits that come
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from fruits and vegetables uh mostly
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fruits are very good a very good source
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of vitamins and you need those vitamins
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for a healthy
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life so you are not going to avoid
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eating fruit however you are going to
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wash on your portion size and also
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choose these fruits that have a lower
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glycemic index to be able to maintain
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your blood sugar levels at a normal
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range so i hope you plant one or two
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things in this video today thank you so
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much for joining me today so much about
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diabetes you've noticed diabetes is a
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quite interesting topic and diabetes is
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so common than you think and prevention
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is better than cure as usual following a
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balance that
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doing exercise being physically active
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maintaining a healthy weight taking lots
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of water can help you a big deal in
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preventing occurrences of diabetes and
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even managing diabetes if you're already
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diabetic and preventing the weight
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complications like you did mention on my
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previous videos we do not want to get
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into diabetes complications
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my previous in my previous video we
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don't talk about we do talk about uh the
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diabetes complications how they occur
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why do when they come and one of the
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ways to prevent divertic complications
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is of course maintaining a good diet
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exercise and taking your medications as
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recommended thank you so much until next
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time bye
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