Insulin resistance is a decrease in sensitivity to the action of insulin in target organs of insulin action, such as the liver, muscle, and adipose tissue, which can rarely be reversed, but it can usually be improved. Dietary treatment includes total calorie control, rational meal preparation, small and frequent meals, and high fiber diet.
1. Total calorie control: It is necessary to control the total calories of each meal not to exceed the limit, to avoid the rise of blood glucose, to avoid consuming high-calorie diets, and to avoid overeating.
2. Reasonable meal preparation: It is necessary to pay attention to nutritional balance, the daily diet to food diversity, nutritional rationality, so that the main food with coarse and fine, side dishes with meat and vegetables, otherwise it is easy to cause malnutrition.
3. Eat less and eat more: in order to avoid the total calorie after meal exceeds the standard and affects the health, patients need to pay attention to eat less and eat more.
4. High-fiber diet: that is, eat more dietary fiber-rich foods, can enhance the sense of satiety, appropriate replacement of staple foods, balance the total calorie, but also play a role in assisting laxative effect, this kind of food generally include corn, sorghum, and beans and so on.
Insulin resistance tends to occur in overweight and obese patients, so it is necessary to carry out weight loss in order to alleviate insulin resistance. During the dietary process of weight reduction, the main thing is to control calories under the condition of ensuring the basic nutritional status, while exercising and controlling the weight, in order to alleviate the insulin resistance.
Patients with insulin resistance should go to the hospital for treatment under the guidance of a doctor. For more dietary knowledge, please consult a nutritionist and eat scientifically and reasonably under the doctor’s guidance.