How to arrange the number of meals for diabetic patients?

  Diabetic patients should eat a small number of meals, regular and quantitative, and can arrange 3~6 meals a day. Meal allocation is as follows: 1. Diabetic patients should eat at least 3 meals a day, and they should eat regularly and quantitatively, usually 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 or 1/5, 2/5, 2/5 in the morning, in the middle and in the evening; 2. Patients who inject insulin or are prone to hypoglycemia should also add 2 to 3 additional meals between the three main meals, and part of the food can be absorbed from the three main meals and set aside for additional meals. Such as each meal each even out 5% to 10% of the total energy throughout the day, set aside between two meals and before bedtime additional meals, so as to effectively prevent the occurrence of hypoglycemia; 3, three meals should be evenly matched with the content of the diet, food should be diversified, pay attention to the balance of various types of food with. This is conducive to slowing down the absorption of glucose and increasing the release of insulin. But eat less sugar, fat, alcohol, salt, moderate consumption of protein foods, more vegetables; 4, gestational diabetes patients in order to avoid starvation when fasting, it is best to follow a small number of meals, eat in six times a day, and must eat once at night before going to bed to avoid hypoglycemia at night or early morning.