Diabetes diet therapy misconceptions

  In terms of dietary therapy, it is especially important for diabetic patients to control their total daily caloric intake. The four major food groups such as cereals and potatoes, vegetables and fruits, meat and eggs, and fats and oils eaten daily should be counted as total calories. In general, six taels of staple foods are appropriate each day, one tael for breakfast, three taels for lunch and two taels for dinner. Breakfast can add an egg, noon and dinner can each add one or two lean meat, fish, chicken, rabbit, duck, dog, pig, cow, lamb, donkey meat can be added, before bedtime can be added to take 250-300ml of milk. Diabetic patients should change the previous eating habits and diet structure, as well as the order of meals. To change the traditional way of eating mainly pasta, adopt the recipe of green vegetables + noodles (or rice) + meat and eggs. Have soup and vegetables first, then meat and main food at each meal. This way, you can eat well and be full, and still keep your staple foods within the required limits. Life scientists recommend eating more than ten kinds of green vegetables every day, so as to ensure the daily intake of vitamins and minerals to meet the metabolic needs of the body. Eight taels of staple food per day is appropriate for those engaged in moderate or heavy physical labor. Song Liusheng, Department of Endocrinology, Sixth People’s Hospital of Anyang City It is not advisable to rush to control the daily diet. It is OK to spend 3 to 6 months to control the diet within the required range. In addition to strictly limiting the intake of fatty meat, animal offal and egg yolk, people with diabetes combined with hypertension should also control the intake of edible oil and salt; the daily intake of vegetable oil should be <10 grams and the intake of salt should be <5 grams. Diabetic diet therapy is not equal to starvation therapy, but to allow diabetic patients to eat well, eat smart, eat enough, both to eat a variety of colors and varieties, but also to ensure the supply of calories and nutritional needs, while not calorie excess.  It is well known that smoking does no good at all. For the sake of your health and the happiness of your family, for the sake of a beautiful environment, for the sake of public health, and for the sake of a better tomorrow, please quit smoking and limit alcohol. For those who are addicted to alcohol, please strictly control the intake of alcohol. When you really want to drink or are forced to drink for social functions, white wine should be less than 45ml per meal, wine should be less than 150ml per meal, beer should not exceed 350ml per meal, and alcohol should not be drunk more than twice a week. At present, there are many different kinds of diabetic health food on the market, and the so-called sugar-free cookies, flour and milk powder are only low in sugar. No diabetic health food can replace the necessary hypoglycemic drugs. Diabetic health food can only play a supplementary therapeutic role, but often the price is high, diabetic patients should make a careful choice depending on their financial ability and condition.