Never Choose Fat-Free Salad Dressings
People with diabetes may pick up “light” or fat-free salad dressings to be healthier. But these dressings do the opposite. Full-fat dressings contain healthy fats that help the body to absorb nutrients. Integrative medicine physician Irina Todorov says that olive oil and vinegar aid people with diabetes and pre-diabetes.

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Small studies assert that salad dressings can improve glucose levels. In the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers wrote that salad dressing helps blood glucose levels. If you buy low-fat salad dressing, you’ll miss out on those benefits.
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