A healthy diet is absolutely essential for both preventing and reversing diabetes. Supplements alone are not enough. Simple carbohydrates, including all refined sugars and grains should be avoided. When a person already has diabetes they should even avoid natural sugars (honey, maple syrup, etc.) as well as starchy foods like potatoes and grains until their blood sugar levels stabilize. If you are addicted to sugar, read the suggestions below.
When beginning to manage diabetes with diet, eat only non- starchy (low glycemic) vegetables and protein (chicken, fish, eggs, etc.) for a few days while taking supplements to reduce insulin resistance. Carefully, monitor blood sugar levels. When they begin to stabilize, you can start adding other foods back into the diet.

Killing Those Sugar Cravings
Tips for Overcoming Sugar Addiction

Refined sugar ought to be classed as a drug, because anyone who tries to quit eating it is going to go through serious withdrawal symptoms. It’s worth it though, because killing those sugar-cravings is killing in self-defense. If you don’t kill the cravings, the cravings may eventually kill you! Follow these steps and you’ll soon kick the sugar habit.
1. Start by eating a high  breakfast that also contains good fats, like the traditional breakfast of eggs. You can also try turkey breakfast sausage or other healthy meats or protein-rich shakes made with Love and Peas protein powder. If you need to sweeten some morning coffee or tea, use stevia. It won’t spike your blood sugar and will help to reduce sugar cravings.
2. Eat regular snacks of fresh vegetables, nuts or other foods that don’t contain simple sugars during the day to keep your blood sugar balanced. You can also try taking Super Algae and licorice root to increase energy and reduce cravings.

If you don’t have diabetes, you can transition away from refined sugar by using natural sugar substitutes like raw honey, real maple syrup, freeze-dried sugar cane juice, agave nectar, stevia to make natural treats that have better nutritional density. At the same time you should switch out white flour and polished rice for various whole grains, which have more nutritional value.
If you absolutely steer clear of simple sugars and refined carbohydrates your cravings will go away in about three to seven days.

After a few weeks on this type of diet, you may feel so good that you’ll wonder why you didn’t get rid of those simple carbs a long time ago. Once blood sugar levels start to stabilize, a person can gradually start to introduce fresh, whole fruits, starchy vegetables and whole grains back into the diet, but all refined carbohydrates should be strictly avoided and even concentrated sources of natural sugar such as honey, fruit juice and maple syrup should be avoided. Eventually, it may be possible to add these foods back into the diet as occasional treats.

Diet isn’t the only lifestyle change that helps diabetics. Resistance exercise, such as weight lifting, helps overcome insulin resistance. In fact, when your muscles start burning during exercise, it is a sign they are taking up sugar without the need of insulin.


Supplements for Insulin Resistance
Diabetics tend to be low in many nutrients essential to the proper metabolism of sugar. For instance, the minerals chromium, vanadium and zinc are essential for regulating blood sugar. Many people with both diabetes and hypoglycemia have found Chromium GTF helpful for stabilizing blood sugar.
Another nutrient that helps balance blood sugar levels is alpha lipoic acid. This antioxidant helps the body correctly metabolize sugar and maintain normal blood sugar levels.
Omega-3 essential fatty acids, found in Super Omega-3 EPA and Krill Oil, help cell membranes become more sensitive to insulin. Good fats also slow the absorption of sugar and stabilize blood sugar levels.
There are many herbs that sensitize cells to insulin and stabilize diabetes. Goldenseal, for example, rapidly lowers blood sugar. In contrast, licorice root raises low blood sugar and helps in overcoming sugar cravings.

Pro-Pancreas blend, a traditional formula containing goldenseal and other herbs that help to normalize metabolism in diabetes.

Sugar Reg
This blend contains the minerals chromium and vanadium in a base of herbs that help overcome insulin resistance. One of these herbs is gymnema, a plant that has been used for thousands of years in India for treating diabetes. When chewed, gymnema blocks the sugar taste buds, making sugar taste like sand. In the intestines, gymnema blocks the absorption of sugar, reducing blood sugar levels. Sugar Reg also contains banaha, bitter melon, nopal and fenugreek, which have all been shown to help lower blood sugar levels.

Blood Sugar Formula
Since India is the birthplace of diabetes, no system of medicine has been treating diabetes longer than Ayurveda. Blood Sugar Formula is a traditional diabetic formula from Ayurvedic medicine. Like Sugar Reg, the key herb in this blend is gymnema, which inhibits sugar absorption in the small intestines. It also helps regulate sugar metabolism in the liver.

Other Formulas
HY-C is a Chinese formula that is helpfiul for pre-diabetes and the early states of diabetes. It is indicated where there is dryness and thirst with excessive urination. These are often early warning signs of high blood sugar. It helps normalize blood sugar levels and hydrate the body.