4Foods to Avoid with Type 2 Diabetes
People with type 2 diabetes should reduce the consumption of food that contains too much cholesterol, sugar, and harmful fat, such as trans-fat and saturated fat. These include:
– Sweets: baked goods, cookies, desserts, ice cream, or candy
– Full-fat dairy: sour cream, cheese, butter, whole milk
– High-fat meat: poultry skin, fatty cuts of lamb, beef, and pork
– Processed foods: processed meat, microwave popcorn, chips
– Sweeteners: molasses, maple syrup, honey, brown sugar, table sugar
– Sweetened drinks: sports drinks, sweet tea, soda, juice
– Trans-fats in dairy-free coffee creamers, fried foods, veggie shortening [4]
