Welcome back to good days, Dateline,
maybe 2022 is the year you want to get a little healthier,
kick your sugar habit. Do you need some help?
Of course you do.
We're going to do that for you tonight chatting with Diana.
Look, L.Z.
and Biz Valetta.
Hello, ladies.
Hey, thanks for having us. Hi.
Yeah.
We are so excited to talk to you guys
and get some help as we move into this new year.
It's the hardest
time of the year,
but I think it's also like the most hopeful time of the year
to actually think that
maybe if we make some changes, we can stick to them.
Definitely.
All right, Diana,
why don't you talk a little bit about yourself
and why sugar is so important to talk about right now?
Yeah.
So most people don't
realize how much added sugar they're eating on a daily basis.
In fact, on average, Americans are now consuming
about 17 teaspoons of added sugar a day,
sugar in a year.
And nowadays, it's just
it's found in so many products that we consume from the bread
we eat to our peanut butter to our salad dressings and
condiments and sauces, you name it.
There's a good chance there's some added sugar in it.
And when we
overconsume these added sugars, which it's so easy to do,
it can cause some negative health effects
that can lead to unwanted weight gain
that could lead to inflammation, blood sugar spikes,
and it can even lead
to the development of pre and type two diabetes.
And when we talk about sugar too, like my initial thought,
of course, is cookies and candies and ice cream.
But you didn't mention any of the add.
We're talking about the hidden sugar,
exactly the hidden
sugars that people aren't really aware of yet.
It's so easy to consume and over consume them.
So what do you think the easiest way
we can swap out the sugar?
So one thing I tell a lot of my patients
is find the source of added sugar in your diet.
So look where they're looking and see if you can make
some swaps with some sugar substitutes.
Sugar substitutes are a great way to still
have that sweetness that we crave and desire
without having it wreak havoc on your blood sugars
and contributing to excess calories in your diet.
OK, so also we have a busy understanding
there you run, of course, the food blog My Busy Kitchen.
So you want to share your story and why you and Diana are right
there hanging out together?
Yeah.
So I've been diabetic for 24 years
and I really thought I had it all figured out,
but I had a stall on my weight
loss and figured
I'd need to get help, so I went to a registered dietitian.
The first thing she said to me
was Keep your grams of sugar to 20 grams a day
and I will tell you my first reaction was like,
I'm probably already doing that, but I'll go home and try it.
And it wasn't until I went home
that I opened up my refrigerator,
got my creamer out and wept tears when my hazelnut
creamer had five grams of sugar for just one table.
Yeah.
So if that's one quarter of my day,
then I was like, How am I going to make a change?
Well, that's why we are so excited
to be partnering with Splenda for their 21 day swaps.
And what that is is they're just asking us to swap out
sugar for Splenda for three weeks, OK?
21 days forms a habit
and I will tell you, I jumped into that first week
to feet first and started with stirring in my coffee
making Greek yogurt taste, but butter even making
a big teriyaki chicken at the end of the day.
And that first week
It was kind of like an eye opener to me
because I had only paid
attention to the amount of carbs
I was eating to take the right amount of insulin.
So for the food I was eating.
I didn't really care what the other numbers were,
as long as I knew that one was good
because I always concentrate on my A1. See?
But turns out all the numbers matter.
So by just reducing the added sugar to my daily consumption,
not only am I eating
less carbohydrates today, but I'm also taking less insulin.
And for me, as a type one diabetic,
I'm hopeful that that will help me
lead a very long life with type one diabetes.
That's such a great story, and the nice thing to do is,
you know, we're not talking to you, ladies,
and you're like, Well, ditch the sugar.
You're you're telling us what we can do instead,
which is the only way it's going to work.
Yeah.
And here's
the thing is that Splenda dot
drop down menu and there's hundreds of recipes to try.
I'm a home cook.
I am not a chef by any stretch of the imagination,
so if I can make these recipes, you can chew.
And as a diabetic, I appreciate the fact that they have
a diabetes friendly label on recipes. OK?
I know that they've already done the guesswork
and they meet the American Diabetes Association guidelines,
so it's a no brainer.
I can just make the recipe
and I will tell you no one in my family notices
maybe small changes and they taste great.
So if you've not tried sugar subsidy.
Shoots for a while. Just give him another try.
But go to the website and try some of the recipes.
Victoria purvey, it looks good.
So thank you ladies.
So much for spending some time with us tonight.
Thank you so much for having us,
and I just wanted to leave the leave your listeners with this.
eight in ten Americans
don't know they have prediabetes,
so it is so important to know your risk level for diabetes.
So I urge you to go check out Splenda dot com slash risk tap
risk test so you can learn more about your risk
level and more information about diabetes.
Awesome lady, someone had.
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