Diabetics’ dietary misconceptions

  (1) Many diabetic patients believe that they should have a strictly controlled diet and should eat bran, vegetables and tofu crumbs. This view is incorrect. Diabetic patients are already lack of nutrition, and then strict control of diet, the patient’s nutrition will be even more lacking, how can diabetes be cured.  (2) Other patients believe that diabetics should not avoid eating, should eat everything. This view is also incorrect. Diabetic body blood sugar is already high, and then eat more, blood sugar will be even higher, which will increase the burden on the pancreas, forming a vicious circle, more heavy diabetes.  (3) There are also diabetics who believe that they are often hungry because they do not have enough nutrition, so they should eat more. This view is also wrong. Diabetic patients are hungry because of the lack of insulin in the body, nutrition can not be used, in fact, the body does not lack of nutrition. Therefore, diabetic patients should eat reasonably, scientific diet.  (4) Some patients think that millet does not contain sugar, this view is also wrong, the sugar content of food in the back of the food composition table in detail, the sugar content of millet and rice and flour is not much different.  (5) Some patients like to eat meat, thinking that meat contains very little sugar, so they can eat more, this view is wrong, although meat contains very little sugar, but the metabolism of meat and fat also depends on the body’s secretion of insulin, eating more meat will also increase the burden on the pancreas. Many patients have unreasonable dietary habits and seldom eat meat, which is also wrong. Both patients and healthy people should eat meat appropriately, and should eat scientifically and have a balanced nutrition, not favoring a certain kind of food, but a comprehensive nutrition.  (6) Some patients think that the “sugar-free food” sold by some companies does not contain sugar and can be eaten without worries, this approach is wrong, like “sugar-free moon cakes, cookies” and other “sugar-free food “The correct approach is to treat them the same as steamed buns and other staple foods, and to eat one or two less steamed buns per day in exchange for one or two sugar-free cookies. “.  (7) Some patients believe that winter melon pumpkin is a sugar-lowering food and can treat diabetes, this view is wrong, winter melon pumpkin is not a drug, it can not play the purpose of treating diabetes, and a large number of consumption will also raise blood sugar. Therefore, the correct approach is to eat more than once every other week. And the amount must be small, not more than 3 taels at a time.  (8) Some patients think that if they have diabetes, they can’t eat fruit, this view is also wrong, diabetic patients can eat fruit, but there is a premise, that is, under the premise of good control of diabetes, you can eat fruit twice a day, the best time between the two meals at about 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., the amount of fruit should be controlled in apples, pears, peaches each time to eat 1/8, oranges each time to eat 3-5 petals , bananas each time to eat half, watermelon each time to eat half a leaf, each time to eat only one kind of fruit.