Establish Essential Habits: Eat Real Food

Goal/Objective: To establish regular consumption of whole-food non-starchy vegetables to replace highly refined processed foods and trans fats. If you are taking these Five Essential Habits in consecutive order, you will continue to monitor your blood glucose daily, drink your optimum amount of water every day, eliminate sugar from your dietary protocol, and now you must add 3-5 servings of … Continue reading Establish Essential Habits: Eat Real Food

Establish Essential Habits: Eliminate All Sugar

Keep using your glucose meter every day, focus on drinking more water, and be especially aware of any drinks that contain sugar, including fruit and vegetable juices. Hint: Check the label for carbohydrate content per serving. We are convinced that sugar—especially refined sugar, but “natural” sugars as well—must be totally eliminated from the dietary protocol … Continue reading Establish Essential Habits: Eliminate All Sugar

Establish Essential Habits: Drink Sufficient Water

“Water is the best liquid possible to cleanse the tissues.” —Ellen White Primary Goal: To discover the optimum amount of water that you should drink, adjust as needed, and then maintain that amount throughout each day. Secondary Goal: To decrease/eliminate consumption of sweetened beverages (regular or diet) and fruit/vegetable juices and replace with plain water. … Continue reading Establish Essential Habits: Drink Sufficient Water

Establish Essential Habits: Master Use of Your Glucometer

Once you have started to Learn About Diabetes, you should establish Five Essential Habits that will provide the foundation for your success. Regardless of your dietary lifestyle (vegan, vegetarian, or Adventist non-vegetarian) or diabetes dietary protocol (ADA, LCHF, WFPB, etc.), it is vital that you establish these daily habits: Master Use of Your Glucometer Drink Sufficient Water Eliminate … Continue reading Establish Essential Habits: Master Use of Your Glucometer

Getting Started: Learn About Diabetes

Today begins the first full week of January 2021, so it's a good time to review the "Getting Started" section in our Adventist Vegetarian Diabetics™ website. It's found at Next you can jump right in to Learn About Diabetes, including Diabetes Types. (Click on the hyperlinks to access the full articles.) For Learn About Diabetes, … Continue reading Getting Started: Learn About Diabetes