| Changing to the diet of a vegetarian will not in all | | | | Talk to your physician or dietitian before switching to |
| likelihood cure your diabetes, but it can offer some | | | | a vegetarian gestational diabetes diet. They can help |
| benefits over a non-vegetarian diet, such as being | | | | you to create a plan that will provide for all the |
| better able to control your weight, reducing your | | | | nutrients you need, and maintain calories at a level to |
| chance of developing diabetes-related complications, | | | | keep your non-pregnancy weight at a healthy level. |
| and perhaps maybe even making your body respond | | | | For diabetics, especially if they are pregnant as well, |
| better to insulin. All of this depends on the type of | | | | choosing a healthy diet that you can stick to is very |
| vegetarian diet you select, and the individual food | | | | important. Diet is a natural way to help control |
| choices you make when you follow the diet. | | | | diabetes, and if you combine a healthy diet with |
| There isn't one "vegetarian diet". The vegan diet is | | | | exercise and medications, you can keep your blood |
| the most strict of these diets, as vegans eat no | | | | glucose at a stable level. If you are able to adhere to |
| foods from animals or animal meat. So, vegans would | | | | a well-balanced diet, with low fat, high carbs and high |
| not eat eggs or dairy products, but vegetarians in | | | | fiber, this will be very helpful to you and to your |
| the traditional sense may eat them. | | | | unborn child. |
| If you adhere to a vegan diet, it will generally be low | | | | Eating a vegetarian diet will keep out high-calorie |
| in saturated fat and cholesterol-free. Vegetarian diets | | | | foods and the saturated fat in animal products. You |
| that allow for generous amounts of legumes, whole | | | | will instead be eating foods with necessary vitamins |
| grains, fruits and vegetables are high in fiber, and | | | | and minerals that help to control your blood glucose |
| lower in calories, as a rule, than non-vegetarian diets. | | | | levels more effectively. These diet choices include |
| All of these factors are beneficial to people who | | | | vegetables, fruits, legumes and whole grains. |
| have diabetes. A vegetarian diet can also lower your | | | | If you can stay with a gestational diabetes diet plan, |
| risk of complications of diabetes like kidney disease | | | | whether vegetarian or not, it can help you insure that |
| and cardiovascular disease. But this still depends in | | | | you stay healthy, and that your unborn child stays |
| large part on the food choices you make. | | | | healthy, too. |