Reposted from Wheat Belly
http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2014/12/five-powerful-ways-reduce-blood-sugar/
Left to conventional advice on diet and you will, more than likely, succumb to diabetes sooner or later. Follow your doctor’s advice to cut fat and eat more “healthy whole grains” and oral diabetes medication and insulin are surely in your future. Turn elsewhere for advice, however, on how to reduce blood sugars sufficient to never become diabetic or to reverse an established diagnosis, and you can create a powerful collection of strategies that handily trump the worthless advice being passed off by the USDA, American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, or the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Among the most powerful and effective strategies to reduce blood sugar:
1) Eat no grains
Recall that amylopectin A, the complex carbohydrate of grains, is highly digestible, unlike most of the other components of the seeds of grasses, subject to digestion by the enzyme, amylase, in saliva and stomach. This explains why, ounce for ounce, grains raise blood sugar higher than table sugar. Eat no grains = remove the exceptional glycemic potential of amylopectin A.
2) Add no sugars, avoid high-fructose corn syrup
This should be pretty obvious, but note that the majority of processed foods contain sweeteners such as sucrose or high-fructose corn syrup, tailored to please the increased desire for sweetness among grain-consuming people. While fructose does not raise blood sugar acutely, it does so in delayed fashion, along with triggering other metabolic distortions such as increased triglycerides and fatty liver.
3) Vitamin D
As vitamin D restores normal responsiveness to insulin, getting vitamin D right helps reduce blood sugar naturally while providing a range of other health benefits.
4) Restore bowel flora
As cultivation of some Lactobacillus and Bifidobacteria species in bowel flora yields fatty acids that restore insulin responsiveness, this leads to reductions in blood sugar. Minus the bowel flora-disrupting effects of grains and sugars, a purposeful program of bowel flora restoration is required. (Also discussed at length in Wheat Belly Total Health.)
5) Exercise
Blood sugar is reduced during and immediately following exercise, with the effect continuing for many hours afterwards, even into the next day.
