Healthy Eating for Type 2 Diabetes

According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), all people newly diagnosed with diabetes should immediately take two steps to control their blood sugar: make lifestyle changeseating better and exercising moreto lose weight, and take the medication metformin. Experts estimate that losing weight and increasing physical activity are enough to decrease  HbA1c levels by one or two percentage points. Adding metformin can reduce them by another one-and-a-half percentage points.