A few days ago, a pregnant woman told me with her test results that her blood glucose was high last week, and the doctor advised her to go home to regulate her diet and then recheck her blood glucose level, and if it was still not normal, she would need to be hospitalized for regulation. In order to normalize her blood glucose, she ate very little staple food in the past few days, even though she was very hungry, and she didn’t even eat the night before the recheck, but her blood glucose was not only not normal, but also showed three plus signs of ketone bodies. The doctor suggested that she come to my nutrition clinic to develop a diet plan. Through chatting, we found that this pregnant woman had many misconceptions about diabetic diet. The most important misconception was that the main reason she had diabetes was because she ate too many staple foods, so she needed to eat less of them, and the less she ate the better. The less staple food a diabetic eats, the better. First of all, our brain cells only recognize glucose for energy supply, so eating too little staple food for energy supply may make you dizzy and weak and aggravate your condition; secondly, the pancreatic secretion of insulin needs the signal stimulation of carbohydrates, so eating too little staple food will stimulate the signal too low, and the amount of insulin secreted by the pancreatic islets will be insufficient, which is not conducive to lowering sugar; once again, staple food is not the only cause of diabetes, but high fat, low exercise, three meals The rhythm of life with irregular diet, poor sleep, and excessive tension and high stress is playing an increasingly important role in the cause of modern diabetes; finally, reasonable coarse and fine staple foods can assist in lowering sugar and accelerating metabolism. Once diagnosed with diabetes, you should develop a recipe that suits your needs based on your height, weight, condition, eating habits, and individual needs. After forty minutes of conversation, this pregnant woman was enlightened that much of her knowledge about diabetes was one-sided. With the individualized recipe plan I gave her, she went home with confidence. Today, she sent a message saying that her ketone bodies are gone and her blood sugar is normal, so the doctor said that she doesn’t need to be hospitalized for adjustment. With the liberalization of the two-child policy, this is also a peak year for having babies. If you have gestational diabetes, it is recommended that you go to a regular nutrition clinic for advice on a diet modification program that is right for you.