Beyond Type 2 Diabetes: Lowering Blood Sugar Through Food

Medically reviewed by Kelly Wood, MD

Many factors can affect your blood sugar levels. One of them is nutrition. Health's Type 2 Diabetes Advocate Alysse Dalessandro explains how food plays a part in her diabetes management. Plus, we've rounded up some content to help you navigate what role nutrition can have in your own life as you continue on your journey of type 2 diabetes—beyond your diagnosis.

Food is nourishment and fuel for your body. What you eat and when you eat are crucial parts of managing your diabetes. Along with medications, regular water intake, stress management, and activity, nutrition is one of the many tools in your diabetes management toolbox.

In my diabetes management, nutrition plays a role by ensuring that I am regularly eating food that nourishes my body. As someone with a past of disordered eating, I started working with an eating disorder-informed nutritionist. One of the things she stressed to me was the importance of eating three regular meals with substantial snacks in between.

With my disordered eating, I used to think that skipping meals was an excuse to eat more later. My gut instinct would be to skip a meal when I saw a high blood glucose number on my continuous glucose monitor. Now I know that I still need to eat when I am hungry but maybe that means having lettuce wraps instead of a sandwich.

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