Blood Sugar Solution: 10 rules for eating safely for life

These rules may come in handy during the preparation phase of the blood sugar solution, when you are preparing your kitchen, but should also be followed for life.

Only have food without labels or that don’t come in a box, package, or can. While there are some nutritious foods that do come packaged, such as artichoke hearts and sardines, it is important to be able to read the labels for hidden ingredients. Look for the ingredient list and nutrition facts, if choosing foods with labels.

• If a food has a label, it should have fewer than 5 ingredients
• If sugar is on the label, throw it out. This includes the many forms of sugar such as honey, agave, maple syrup, cane syrup, or molasses)
• Throw out any food with high fructose corn syrup on the label. It always signals low-quality or processed food
• Throw out any food with the word hydrogenated on the label - this is an indicator of trans fats, vegetable oils, converted through a chemical process into margarine or shortening.
• Throw out any highly refined cooking oils such as soy and corn oils. Avoid toxic fats and fried food
• Throw out any food with ingredients you can’t recognize or pronounce
• Throw out any foods with preservatives, additives, coloring, or dyes
• Throw out food with artificial sweeteners of any kind (aspartame, Splenda, sucralose, sugar alcohols) if it came from the earth or a farmer’s field, not a food chemists lab, it’s safe to eat