For Diabetes, a healthy diet may just be the best medicine. In fact, a diabetes diet, which is really just an overall healthy diet with good portion control, can go beyond helping you achieve Blood sugar control. Lowering your risk for serious health conditions, from Heart disease to cancer, are among the benefits.

"Eating healthy is important to managing and preventing complications of diabetes," says Angela Ginn, RN, LDN, a certified diabetes educator, program coordinator at the University of Maryland Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology at Maryland General Hospital in Baltimore, and a spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Right Diet Helps Overall Health

Eating a well-balanced diet is key to protecting your overall health and reducing your risk of other health conditions. "A healthy diet helps diminish the amount of inflammation in the body, increase good cholesterol (HDL), and decrease triglycerides and bad cholesterol (LDL)," explains Betul Hatipoglu, MD, an endocrinologist at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. "Antioxidants from a healthy diet also help our immune system fight day-to-day stressors in our system

A Diabetes Diet to Lower Cancer Risk

"Having diabetes increases the risk of all types of cancer," explains Susan Spratt, MD, an endocrinologist at Duke Medicine in Durham, N.C. Experts aren't exactly sure why this is the case, and it may not even be a direct link.

The Link Between Diabetes and Stroke

Diabetes also significantly increases your risk for heart disease and stroke — creating up to a four times greater risk than for someone without diabetes. In fact, heart disease and stroke are the cause of death for at least 65 percent of people with diabetes, according to the American Heart Association. People with diabetes are more likely to develop multiple risk factors for heart disease, from high blood pressure to High cholesterol,

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