6. Oatmeal
If you have paid any attention to healthy diet suggestions, chances are that you have seen oatmeal on the list of foods that you should be eating. While oatmeal is best known for lowering blood pressure and helping with heart disease, it also is good for lowering blood sugar. Oatmeal contains soluble fiber. Soluble fiber, when mixed with water will form a type of paste. This paste will then create a barrier when it is inside the digestive tract.
The barrier will help keep the starch molecules of a meal and the digestive enzymes found in the stomach separate. When this occurs, it takes the body longer to convert any carbohydrates that are eaten into blood sugar. While eating a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast each day is great, if you get tired of this you can simply use oat flour in several types of meals such as soups or stews.