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A healthy diet is a big contributor to keeping you healthy. Fruits, vegetables and lean meat are all parts of making up a healthy diet. Consuming more protein and high-fiber vegetables and fewer fruits and other sugar-filled foods will keep you feeling better for a longer period of time. Everyone likes desserts and special holiday treats, but they are best left to the holidays and not eaten as part of your regular diet.

Eating a healthy diet and a normal glucose level fit directly together as what we eat to a large extent determines how much glucose is in our blood stream. Glucose is not a bad thing and our bodies need it for fuel and to keep muscles working. The problem comes in when we over-indulge in sugary foods and over time prevent our bodies from their task of regulating blood sugar. Chronic high blood sugar is an indicator of diabetes and the complications of this disease are ones to be avoided.
The food we eat is digested and if it is made up of carbohydrates turned into glucose and that glucose is absorbed into our bloodstream. As our glucose level rises, insulin is secreted to move the glucose to cells needing it for fuel. Once those cells are full the rest of the glucose is put in storage as fat, to be burned at a later time. Well as most of us know, that later time is slow in coming and we are better at storing fat than burning it.

Eating protein and fiber-filled vegetables lowers the amount of glucose entering our blood stream and thus the amount for insulin to move out. Less is more in this case and less glucose leaves us feeling better and keeps us from storing more fat. Eat less, feel better more and work at losing those fat stores.