There is an old saying that “disease enters through the mouth”. It used to mean that the diet is unhygienic and pathogens enter the body through the diet to cause disease. Nowadays, with good hygiene and abundant materials, this saying has a new meaning, that is, many diseases are caused by eating! Diabetics know that they should “keep their mouths shut and their legs moving”, so how and what should they eat in the end? Here are some references for you.
A. Meals
You can eat three meals a day or more meals, “eat less and more” is definitely better than “overeating”, but should be controlled in total! Daily staple food 5-6 taels for less activity, 7-8 taels for more exercise (staples include rice, steamed buns, noodles and other starches); 1 bag of milk or soy milk (high uric acid, gout people should not).
Of the energy required by the human body in a day, 50-60% must be provided by carbohydrates, which means that Asians are mainly dependent on rice and noodles to sustain their lives. Some sugar lovers think that since eating can raise blood sugar, I will not eat! I heard that pumpkin is good for diabetes, so let’s eat pumpkin. In the morning pumpkin stew, noon braised pumpkin, evening steamed pumpkin, the result of eating a person’s face yellow muscle thin, almost become a pumpkin man, that is certainly not good. So, try to diversify your diet throughout the day, in addition to sugar very high food, anything can eat, but nothing can eat more, to try to enjoy life, but will not eat out of high blood sugar, high blood fat, high uric acid, high blood pressure.
Second, drink porridge
Many people like to drink porridge, especially Chaozhou people and northerners, Chaozhou people made porridge into the world’s cuisine, such as seafood porridge, skinny meat porridge, fish fillet porridge, pork liver porridge, eel porridge, etc., and even three meals a day can drink porridge. But for sugar lovers, like to drink congee is not good! There may be some truth in the saying: “Drinking thin rice is equal to drinking sugar water”. Because of the fast digestion and absorption of rice, blood sugar rises quickly after drinking, and by the second meal before the meal, the stomach is empty, and thus prone to hypoglycemia, which artificially causes blood sugar fluctuations, some even like a “roller coaster”. The fluctuation of blood sugar is more harmful than high blood sugar. Therefore, try not to drink porridge, especially the long-cooked “mee porridge”.
Three, eat vegetables
Daily can eat about 2 two lean meat, uric acid and cholesterol is not high people can eat some amount of seafood, but avoid raw food (such as raw fish, raw shrimp and crab, very easy to hurt the spleen Yang); 1 to 2 eggs (blood lipids, high cholesterol do not eat egg yolk); can eat more freshwater fish. 1 to 3 pounds of vegetables a day, if you feel that you are not full, you can fill up with vegetables. There are several vegetables that are very beneficial to diabetics.
1, cucumber: sugar content of only 1.6%, can provide vitamin C, carotene, fiber and minerals for diabetics. Cucumber in the malonic acid has inhibited the transformation of carbohydrates into fat, is a combination of obesity or hyperlipidemia of diabetic patients preferred a therapeutic vegetable. But the nature of the cold, the spleen and stomach cold people can not eat more, or easy bloating, diarrhea and even abdominal pain.
2, bitter melon: cold taste bitter, vitamin C content of the first melon. It contains bitter melon saponin, has a significant hypoglycemic effect, known as “plant insulin”. Stomach Yang deficiency, or spleen deficiency phlegm and dampness, or spleen and kidney deficiency should not eat more.
3, lettuce: sugar and fat content are very low, but contains insulin activator, is another ideal therapeutic vegetables for diabetics.
4, bamboo shoots: very high fiber content, can delay the digestion of food and glucose absorption in the intestine, help control post-prandial blood sugar. It is especially good for those with dry stools. Not easy to eat too much on an empty stomach, or stomach bloating, abdominal pain.
5, onions: prostaglandin A and sulfur amino acids contained in the vasodilatation, blood pressure and lipid regulation effect, the prevention of complications of diabetes is beneficial. For those who like to drink wine, you can put the right amount in red wine after soaking, which has the effect of lowering blood sugar, blood lipids and softening blood vessels.
6, silver fungus: nutrient-rich, low caloric energy, rich in plant fiber and silver fungus polysaccharide, eaten to help delay the rise of blood sugar. It is especially appropriate to eat when it is hot, do not eat more in winter.
7, try not to eat fried food. Such as McDonald’s, KFC, spicy crab and other deep-fried fragrant mouth food, there are hundreds of harm but no benefit.
Fourth, snacks
Try to avoid snacking. Unless there are signs of hypoglycemia can eat cookies, candy, plain try to eat even less or not eat melon seeds, peanuts and other nuts, because these nutty foods contain a lot of fat, the risk of cardiovascular damage to their own sugar patients, eating more of such food is undoubtedly fueled by fire, so should be abstinent.
Five, fruit
You can eat, and should eat. But we should pay attention to the timing and amount of eating. If the blood sugar is stable, generally 2 hours after meal, blood sugar is less than 10 mmol/L, preferably less than 8 mmol/L, you can eat fruit. Fruits are best eaten between two meals, especially about 1 hour before meals, so that you can enjoy the deliciousness of fruits and avoid pre-meal hypoglycemia and not make post-meal blood sugar too high, thus making blood sugar more stable.
Fruits that can be consumed include: dragon fruit, cucumber, watermelon, orange, grapefruit, lemon, peach, plum, apricot, pineapple, strawberry, cherry, etc.
Choose with caution: bananas, pomegranates, melons, oranges, apples, pears, lychees, mangoes, etc. Some people think that lychee can lower blood sugar, so they will eat recklessly and fiercely, some people’s blood sugar does not rise, or even hypoglycemia, but most people are still significantly higher blood sugar. Do not listen to others say that you can lower sugar like you found the magic bullet. The ones that can lower blood sugar are very few, and are based on the good function of pancreatic B cells.
Prohibited use: Dates and hawthorn. Especially dried fruits such as honey dates, dried apricots, dried peaches or persimmon cakes and raisins processed with highly concentrated sugar water. The addition of dates in Chinese medicine is fixed in the prescription and is not a big problem after decoction, unlike direct consumption.
If blood sugar control is not satisfactory, it is better not to consume sweet fruits, and you can choose melon and fruit vegetables instead. Cucumber and tomato are preferred.
Note the principles of eating fruit.
1, to eat less, do not eat a lot at once. For example: although watermelon contains less sugar, but once eaten 500 grams, equivalent to 100 grams of bananas, pears 170 grams, so the amount of food to control.
2, do not eat fruit on an empty stomach and after meals, can be eaten between meals, generally around 10:00 am and 4:00 pm.
3, depending on blood sugar and eat: blood sugar control is not good when try not to eat, if you can eat fruit before and after eating fruit 2 hours to test blood sugar, to understand whether you can eat fruit, eat fruit has not too much help.
4.Choose low-sugar fruits.
5.Count the calories and limit the total amount. To put the calories of fruit in the total calories, such as: eating 200 grams of fruit every day, such as pears, apples, peaches, etc., can reduce the main food 25 grams, should not eat fruit at every meal.
Six, smoking and alcohol
Smoking is an independent risk factor for diabetes. That is to say, smoking can cause diabetes. Moreover, it is also an accomplice in causing cardiovascular disease. Therefore, smokers try to quit smoking. If you can’t do it, you can gradually reduce the amount of smoking, if you can control within 5 cigarettes a day, the harm will not be great.
In the long run, patients should quit drinking completely, but few plain drinkers can do so, then try to drink as little as possible, and pay attention to.
1.Good blood sugar control, fasting blood sugar below 7.8 mmol/L.
2, no serious complications of diabetes and no combination of other serious diseases.
3, normal liver function.
4, non-obese.
For diabetic patients who meet the above conditions, to drink alcohol, it is advisable to choose dry red and dry white wines with low sugar content, and other wines with lower ethanol content such as beer can also be consumed appropriately. The amount of alcohol should be controlled as follows: 50 ml of 30-degree white wine, or 200 ml of beer, or 100 ml of wine, or 40 ml of whiskey. Alcohol should not be consumed more than twice a week.
Of course, due to the dietary habits of each person, height, fat and thin, internal organs function is not the same, diet varieties and food should be different, the above is for reference only.