Can you have diabetes and still eat burgers? Many patients can’t believe it when they hear it, but people with diabetes can indeed eat burgers. An old friend of mine started keeping a dietary diary after his visit to my clinic, and one day as he was leaving the clinic he asked me, “Can I have a hamburger?” I told him that he could eat it, but he had to be careful about the amount he ate, and he had to be careful to include some vegetables. In the next two days he brought his diary for me to read, and I found that he ate hamburgers for lunch on a few days, and carefully marked the type of meat and the total weight. And these times the post-meal blood sugar was between 6 and 8 mmol/L. The main reason why the old man’s blood sugar was still well controlled after eating the hamburger was that he controlled the amount of food he consumed and the food that went with it. He chose the chicken burger and beef burger, in fact, he could also choose the fish burger, except that the chicken could be grilled, and the beef was just fried, and the production method was still less oil compared to frying. He also had white radish, onion and cucumber, seasoned with just a little vinegar and salt, and ate three grapefruit cloves. There are staple foods, meat, vegetables, fruits and fats, which is a reasonable combination for lunch. Let’s calculate the energy and the proportion of each nutrient in this meal. According to the Chinese food composition table 2004 version, a 120g burger provides an average of 371Kcal of energy, white radish, onion and cucumber provide about 44Kcal of energy, and grapefruit provides about 199Kcal of energy. 614Kcal for the whole meal. roughly speaking, 14% of the energy is provided by protein, 30% by fat, and 56% by carbohydrate function. The height and weight of the elderly man gives a total energy of about 1530 Kcal a day. Therefore, it is reasonable that the lunch provides 40% of the total energy of the day. The shortcoming is that the 3 grapefruits are about 450g, which can be reduced slightly and replaced by foods such as mashed potatoes, which can enrich the variety of food and also reduce the intake of fructose. So, as long as you control the quantity and mix, diabetic diet can also jump out of the old circle of green vegetables and turnips and rice.