WHAT IS INSULIN RESISTANCE?
Liver and muscle tissues of people with insulin resistance have reduced sensitivity to insulin. As a result, the body has to produce higher amounts to get normal blood sugar.
WHAT IS INSULIN?
Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas. The main stimulus of the excretion is nutrition (carbohydrates).
HOW DOES INSULIN RESISTANCE DEPEND ON NUTRITION?
Insulin resistance can be improved by following a proper diet, conscious lifestyle and regular exercise. These lifestyle factors are also the keys of diabetes prevention.
Recipes for insulin resistance
One of the most important principles of an insulin resistance diet is to choose foods that are free of added sugar. This is the explanation for why you only find such recipes in the MIRA Health app.
Meal plans for insulin resistance
In the diet of IR, it is important not only to eat adequate amount of fiber and to avoid refined carbohydrates, but also to ensure that you are getting the right quantity & quality of fat and protein when composing a diverse diet. Our diets are prepared according to these principles, with the careful work of our dietitian.
Carbohydrate calculator
In the diet of IR, it is not only important to eat adequate amount of fiber and to avoid refined carbohydrates, but also to ensure that you are getting the right quantity & quality of fat and protein when composing a diverse diet.
Ask the dietitian
Our dietitian can help you with questions, starting from the selection of ingredients to the adaptation of the tiniest cooking practices.
An application with features to help reduce INSULIN RESISTANCE
Our application includes all the features that can help you to create the proper balanced diet, that suits you the best. Simply, without difficulties.
Some of them
- Default number of serving(s) selector
- Interactive education content
- Macronutrient & fluid intake tracker
- Contact with your dietitian
Follow & design meal plans
Under this menu you will find a lot of useful features that can be put into practice and thus make it easier to design your weekly menu.
- Meal plan calendar view
- Mosaic meal plans that can be added to your calendar at the touch of a button
- Recipe selections
Get inspiration
Here you can browse plenty of IR-friendly recipes, created – by our dietitians – specifically for your diet needs (e.g. sugar-free, fiber-rich).
- Recipes according to current events
- Advanced recipe filter
- Possibilty to mark favourite recipes
- Upload own recipes
Get groceries done never been so easy
Plan ahead, select, or create your meal plan under the meal plan menu, then add the ingredients of the recipes to the shopping list.
- Add ingredients: from recipe, meal plan, from database
- Editable unit of measurenment
- Checkbox to mark the items you already have
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