When she finally went to the doctor, three months after she first noticed her symptoms, Allene Harri, from Texas, was surprised to learn she has diabetes. It doesn’t run in her family and she hadn’t been aware of a particularly unhealthy or anti diabetes diet.
“I just didn’t feel right,” she recalls. “I was very tired, and I thought it was because of the stress I’d gone through when my mother died. But I was happy to hear it could be controlled with healthy diabetes diets. My doctor said that as long as I was willing to make some changes, I probably wouldn’t need to take insulin.”
Her diet - a careful balance of carbohydrates, protein and fat that’s heavy on fiber and light on saturated fat and sugar, with just enough calories to maintain her weight - perked her up as fast as it dropped her blood sugar. She was feeling better in a matter of days.
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