Lower A1C Naturally: 5 Foods To Eat, 5 To Forget | Stephanie McBurnett, RDN
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🗓️ 1 February 2024
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Summary
Lower your A1C and take control of diabetes by eating these foods!
Dietitian Stephanie McBurnett shares five choices for foods that can improve blood sugar when she joins The Exam Room Podcast. And she also reveals the science behind the five foods that anyone with diabetes should avoid!
5 Foods For Lowering A1C
1.) Black Beans
2.) Blueberries
3.) Broccoli
4.) Barley
5.) Bell Peppers
5 Foods To Forget
1.) Animal Products
2.) Coconut
3.) Oils
4.) Processed Sweets
5.) Sugar Sweetened Beverage
Plus, Stephanie answers health and nutrition questions from Exam Roomies who watched live when “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll opens the Dietitian’s Mailbag.
Chef Dustin Harder also puts out a call to all chefs working in hospitals to sign up for the Healthy Hospital Chef Challenge! The winner will receive a $6,000 prize!
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. |
| 0:04.4 | What are your five fantastic foods for lowering A1C? |
| 0:08.0 | What's number one on the list stuff? |
| 0:09.4 | So I had a lot of fun with this Chuck and it turns out that all my favorite foods start with the letter B. |
| 0:16.6 | The first one is going to be black beans or just beans in general. |
| 0:21.3 | Beans are an extremely healthy food. |
| 0:24.2 | They're full of protein, they're full of fiber, |
| 0:27.5 | all that soluble fiber which actually helps |
| 0:30.0 | build a healthy gut microbiome, which also in turn can affect your blood glucose levels and your insulin |
| 0:36.4 | sensitivity. The reason I said black beans is there's actually some studies that show that anthocyanins, |
| 0:42.0 | which black beans since they're of their dark color, |
| 0:45.0 | they're very high in anthocyanins. |
| 0:46.6 | anthocyanins have been shown to be really good |
| 0:48.6 | for regulating your blood glucose levels as well. Well. Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:01.0 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 1:04.0 | Thanks for joining us as we raise health IQs, coast to coast, and around the world in great |
| 1:08.4 | cities like Hollywood, Florida, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. |
| 1:16.0 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:20.0 | This is episode 13 of season 7 number 512 overall. |
| 1:25.0 | Is your blood sugar out of control? |
| 1:30.0 | Well, today we are going to give you five foods that might help and five others that |
| 1:36.1 | you're going to want to avoid because they can K-O your A-1C to Kingdom Come. |
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