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Not easy in Nigeria and for Type 2 diabetes only.

To eat.

1) Swallow ( Low GI carbs) - Oats , Green Plantain, millet, Guinea corn. check if you can get chia seeds and add a little blended. Millet and Guinea corn can be blended to make ogi baba, Okpa (Bambara beans)

2) Vegetables and salad - This should be your most go to meal as no carbs. You can have your salad with egg. Salad with chicken. Salad with fish.

3) Beans the different kinds eg, black eyed, oloyin, Okpa etc. Legumes in general just check the glycemic index of your local one. Below 50 is recommended. Beans can be cooked as porridge with green plantain. It can also be made into moi moi and akara once in a while.

4) Drinks and fruits - Pawpaw (including about a teaspoonful of the seed to deworm) Sour sop, cucumber, make your own hibiscus drink sweetened with dates or pineapple(mainly the skin). Warm or cool water with a slice of lemon or Ijagbonyi(African natural lemon)

5) Snack on nuts (cashew, groundnut, kola nut, bitter kola, tiger nut, African walnut (asala) and other local nuts ) and edible seeds (sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds etc)

6) Herbs (try to get seeds and plant the ones you can) and Iru instead of maggi and little iodised or sea salt. Coriander, parsley, rosemary, garlic, ginger, turmeric etc

7) Go to high fibre vegetables is all of the usual African leafy vegetables ie ( ugu, waterleaf, bitter leaf, moringa, Ewedu, Okro, tête, shoko, afang etc) then others like carrots, beetroot, garden egg , ube, igba , avocado etc.

Meat protein - Fish, Chicken, Turkey, other birds, eggs, seafood, liver, little cattle, goat, ram and bush meat.

9) Peppersoup with spices that you ground yourself and add little white yam(only), Green plaintain and/or sweet potatoes and lots of cabbage and carrots vegetables etc to fill you up.

10) Teas - guava leaf, moringa leaf, soursop leaf, hibiscus( zobo) can be served hot as tea.

11) Stews with vegetables.


AVOID if you can white rice, yam, Irish potatoes, semo, garri, wheat, processed meat (sausages) and soft sweet drinks, bread, spaghetti and indomie, seed oils, corn, cakes, ice cream.

When it comes particularly to carbohydrates which turn to sugar, portion sizes and mixing with fibre is critical

If you can’t avoid then

1)Rice wash 3 times, mix with beans, eat with vegetables or okro and just have one serving spoon. Also don’t let the water dry but put it in a strainer to get rid of the water at the end. Also also substitute with Ofada rice.

2) Yam. 1 slice of boiled or roasted (with the skin on ) white yam and eat with vegetables.

3) Irish Potatoes yellow better than white and about 3 medium pieces with vegetables or eggs. Also sweet potato is much better.

4) Semo, garri and wheat best to substitute with swallow above ie oat, millet and green plantain otherwise add beetroot or turmeric juice while turning.

5) Sausages substitute with fish or eggs

6) soft drinks and malt substitute with homemade hibiscus drink (zobo) and water. The ones bought are made with saccharine which is deadly for people with diabetes

7) Bread - make your own with lentils or beans look for recipes online. Alternatively not more than 2 slices.
Spaghetti and noodles very small sizes and mix with carrots, cabbage, eggs, salad onion, garlic, peas to fill up.

9) Most of the oil in the market called vegetable oil are seed oils and should be avoided. Most things can be cooked without oil if not use little butter(not margarine) or lard from soft animal fat or olive oil and coconut oil. Better to use little palm oil than seed oils.

10) Cakes save this for my cheat days and make it myself substituting blended dates for sugar or have a small piece from the one bought for my teenager

11) Ice cream cheat day make it myself so no sugar.

At the beginning it is difficult but once you set up and you have regular electricity then it gets better. The mixed herbs I blend fresh and freeze in ice blocks containers and the mixed vegetables I cut and wash and also freeze in portions. If you don’t have the option of regular light then check for the ones you can dry and blend into powder.

We all have cheat days maybe once a week you just eat a small portion of something you like I do.

Canned food is a no no including tomatoes, sardines and milk.

Also rest and walks. Intermittent fasting (Allowing more than 12 hours between your night and your morning meal) and limiting your food to 2 times a day will also help. I eat at about 10am to 12pm and again between 4pm to 6pm. I started 2 meals about 7 years ago and have only had Diabetes in the last 2.5 years.

Start to discipline yourself in your late 30s and early 40s around carbohydrates and sugar as prevention of type 2 diabetes is better than cure.

I also decided to be using ogun ijedi once a month to clear out any undigested food.

I will continue to research and update.

Good guide to those who can adapt to this.

Before those life styles change sinks, my dear ," no be moi moi",it takes the grace of God to tame our tongues.

Nice info there. May God grant us all good health. Amen

Fast regularly.

I go on 24 to 48 hours fasting every other day and then proceed to eat whatever I like. This keeps my blood sugar in check.

Congratulations 👏🎉 to you

Disease from the Pit of Hell.

EyeCumInPiss:
Disease from the Pit of Hell.

Work on your mentality,2026 is almost here.

How do you Bleep with Diabetes Type 2?

If done correctly, intermittent fasting, eating fewer carbs, and controlling portions can work together to actually reverse type 2 diabetes.

It's not those foods you mentioned above, it's God that can do it. How long have you been diabetic if I may ask? You did not mentioned exercise.

gabbytabby:
Not easy in Nigeria and for Type 2 diabetes only.

Thanks for this big information. One can also be using abeere and akogun, drink with pap first thing in the morning. My daddy cure his own with this herbs and others. Mind you last week after two years of remission it came back again. When he checked his blood sugar after eating in the morning last week he had 170. When I asked him what he ate , he said throughout the week he ate ripe and fry plantains. I knew something must have caused it. He wasn't using any drugs for the past two years. Most times during the two years he had 110-120 after eating or 70-80 before eating. He is 83 years old. Diabetes didn't like fry things or sugary things, the combination of these two is deadly.

Okay

No late night eating


Eat in moderate portions

Eat vegetables like ugwu, water leaf, spinach etc

It shall be well

Check sugar level regularly and dont skip medications and doctors appointment

HeatSeeker:
Fast regularly.

I go on 24 to 48 hours fasting every other day and then proceed to eat whatever I like. This keeps my blood sugar in check.

Hmmmm.. Are you diabetic?

jetson06:
How do you Bleep with Diabetes Type 2?

Na talk be this one?

May God help all Diabetic patients!
Diabetes no be child's play.

Anything that affects what we eat and the way we eat mehn is usually not easy.

Nothing kills man faster than what he eats.

If you want to live long do these

Instead of beer take spirit
Instead of cigarettes take bitter cola
Instead of bread take nuts
Instead of noodles take rice
Instead of soda take water
Instead of raw sex use finger
Instead of biscuits take eggs
Instead of herbs take water

It is very difficult to follow all you listed here in Nigeria. Nonetheless, health is wealth. One must do whatever he/she needs to do for a better health.

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What about akara? It is fried too.

tubolancer:
Thanks for this big information. One can also be using abeere and akogun, drink with pap first thing in the morning. My daddy cure his own with this herbs and others. Mind you last week after two years of remission it came back again. When he checked his blood sugar after eating in the morning last week he had 170. When I asked him what he ate , he said throughout the week he ate ripe and fry plantains. I knew something must have caused it. He wasn't using any drugs for the past two years. Most times during the two years he had 110-120 after eating or 70-80 before eating. He is 83 years old. Diabetes didn't like fry things or sugary things, the combination of these two is deadly.

Almost the same don't do things like Hidradenitis Suppurativa.

gabbytabby:
Not easy in Nigeria and for Type 2 diabetes only.

Great thanks




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God bless you richly for your kindness. You are awesome

I own a carehome that helps manage elderly people with diabetes and other chronic sickness and disease so I can relate to what the op is saying.

Past 40 your body will make you regret eating the wrong things often because you are less physically active so one has to make a lifetime change around food.

I also read that most diseases are due to your body being overwhelmed by parasites and pollutants so always deworm (I make a smoothie from pawpaw seeds, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, sour sop flesh and plant based milk) and make sure to wash or soak a lot of your food with salt (or vinegar or baking soda) before cooking them.

tubolancer:
Thanks for this big information. One can also be using abeere and akogun, drink with pap first thing in the morning. My daddy cure his own with this herbs and others. Mind you last week after two years of remission it came back again. When he checked his blood sugar after eating in the morning last week he had 170. When I asked him what he ate , he said throughout the week he ate ripe and fry plantains. I knew something must have caused it. He wasn't using any drugs for the past two years. Most times during the two years he had 110-120 after eating or 70-80 before eating. He is 83 years old. Diabetes didn't like fry things or sugary things, the combination of these two is deadly.

These are lots of processes and procedures to keep up with in the long run.It's still worth a try for anyone with the disease.Children as old as 7 are now being diagnosed of diabetes and that's horrible.You did well but laid a little or no emphasis on exercise.Cardio and weight lifting exercises are the most potent tool available for a better health.Taking part in Running events that are organized by some states is another way to boost your metabolic health

To confirm you have successfully managed your so called type 2 diabetes with this diet alone,show us your Sugar test result before and after,not all these long epistle.
It's even far more expensive to use the diet regimen you outlined above than using readily available,affordable drugs you can get from any pharmacy store in Nigeria.
Besides that,all these herbs and concoctions that are taken in Nigeria have been proven to be one of the causes of the imcreased number of cases of people being diagnosed with kidney failure and other illnesses people attribute to spiritual attack,not knowing it's some of these concoctions,herbs of all sorts without proper dosing and refining to eliminate their toxic components,causing the livers and kidneys to overwork leading to people coming down with serious health challenges that most times get unresolved because at the time of reaching a proper Hospital and doing a proper diagnosis(not all the malaria and typhoid diagnosis virtually every patient in Nigeria seems to be diagnosed with),it's too late or the proper laboratory tests cannot be carried out.
If you are diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes,take your drugs,regulate your diet till it's under control.
Anyone telling you to stick to diet alone with a sugar level of say 200 and above,is not only just delaying the evil day but making things pretty worse.
If you doubt stick to the above with very high sugar level and see if you won't find yourself saying,"had I known I would have gone to get drugs from Uche pharmacy".
Nigeria and Nigerians are also pretty lucky that prescription drugs for cases like diabetes and hypertension are things just about anyone can get over the counter in any pharmacy shop that have them.

Jagabanbogu:
Nothing kills man faster than what he eats.

If you want to live long do these

Instead of beer take spirit
Instead of cigarettes take bitter cola
Instead of bread take nuts
Instead of noodles take rice
Instead of soda take water
Instead of raw sex use finger
Instead of biscuits take eggs
Instead of herbs take water

Diabetes, HBP and their likes are more hereditary than what we eat. Know this and know peace

Carbohydrates is a killer especially when you live sedentary life