Our diet consists of primarily fats, proteins and carbohydrates.
I wish somebody could correct me if I'm wrong. The pre-diabetic and diabetic problems are primarily those of eating carbohydrates, not fats or proteins.
Yeah consuming fats can be related to cholesterol problems. But not diabetic problems.
All foods other than simple sugars and starches, are broken down into a host of nutrients, including fats and protiens. Actually, fats usually end up as triglycerides in the blood.
Let's face it kids, do the research and you will find that the body works best when it is exercised and fed a wide variety of foods, with none of them taking a staring role. Even within the food groups, we must eat wide varieties. You may love tomatoes, and hate cabbage, but both offer nutrients that are needed by the body, and are unique to those veggies. Fish is great, as is rabbit (very lean protien), but too much fish can give you an overload of heavy metal, and other toxins, while if you only eat rabbit, you can poison yourself with protien (I'm not sure that poison is the right word, but you get the picture). Even too much water can rob your body of electrolytes and water-soluble vitamins and other nutrients, leaving you weak and unable to perform. Lose too much potassium and your muscles quit working properly.
Meat is a great food source. Red meat is a great food source, but in moderation. Fat is required to deliver some very important nutrients to the body, and is used by the body as an energy source if needed, again, fat is to be consumed in moderation.
Increase the variety of foods in your diet, and you can decrease the need for vitamin pills and supplements. Get some sunlight, and your own body will provide you with vitamin D.
With the variety of foods that I enjoy, I still don't mix it up enough. I eat too many fried foods, and starches. I won't get into the why's. I know better than to be eating so much of those foods.
I have one of my kids who is trying so very hard to feed her family proper meals, with the correct kinds of foods, and lots of variety. But she too, knows how to make all the foods that will slowly do you in. They taste so very good.
Proper nutrition has been made more difficult by the prices of foods that are available to us, and the inability to grow our own, or hunt for our own foods from the wilderness. I often wish I could have been alive four hundred or so years back. Btu then again, there would have been no eyeglasses to improve my vision.
Wow, do I ever get wordy at times. I think it's time to go to bed. Goodnight everyone.
Seeeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North