As the saying goes, “Food is the key to life”, but for people with diabetes, diet may be even more important than “life” because good or bad diet control directly affects the development of the disease. Therefore, in the “five carriages” of diabetes prevention and treatment, diet control occupies a very important position. However, many patients have misconceptions about diabetes diet, the following are the most representative 9 misconceptions.
Myth 1: Eat less or no staple food
Some diabetic friends believe that the less staple food eaten the better, or even for several years to control the staple food to eat only half a tael to a tael per meal, which will result in two consequences: First, due to insufficient staple food intake, the total calories can not meet the needs of the body metabolism, resulting in excessive decomposition of body fat, protein, body wasting, malnutrition, and even produce hunger ketosis. Secondly, the amount of staple food is controlled, but the fats, snacks, meat and eggs are not controlled, so that the total daily calories are far over the limit, and the fat intake is too much, which is easy to complicate hyperlipidemia and cardiovascular diseases and make the diet control fail. In fact, the diabetic diet mainly controls total calories and fat, while staple foods contain more complex carbohydrates, which are relatively slow to raise blood sugar and should ensure that you eat enough.
Myth #2: If it’s not sweet, you can just eat it
Now there are many sugar-free foods on the market, diabetic friends think that no sugar can be eaten without fear, and they can use them to fill up when hungry, no need to control. In fact, all kinds of foods that claim to be sugar-free are made of grain, and like rice and steamed buns, they will be converted into glucose in the body and cause fluctuations in blood sugar when eaten. Therefore, such foods can be used to improve the monotonous taste and enhance the pleasure of life, but the total calories must be calculated and controlled scientifically.
Myth 3: It is fine to eat more than one medicine
Some patients often can’t help but eat more when they feel hungry, and they think that increasing the dose of their original medication can offset the extra food they eat. In fact, this not only makes the diet control null and void, but also increases the burden on the pancreas and increases the possibility of hypoglycemia and drug toxic side effects, which is very unfavorable to the control of the disease.
Myth 4: Control meals, snacks are not limited
Some diabetic patients have very good control of three meals, but because of low blood sugar dizziness, palpitations, weakness feeling particularly uncomfortable, so often in the three meals after the intake of excessive snacks and fruit, such as cakes, moon cakes, peach crisp, etc., some friends can not help but also eat some bananas, watermelon, which will quickly raise blood sugar fruit, in fact, these practices are quite dangerous. In order to avoid the discomfort brought by hypoglycemia, we can usually prepare more instant wolfberry, gum such as small snacks, each time the appropriate amount of food, both to relieve the symptoms of hypoglycemia and good health.
Myth 5: Quit meat and vegetables, not oil and alcohol
Many people may not understand why they usually eat a lot of vegetarian dishes, why diabetes also find it? The problem is mostly in the cooking oil we usually fry. According to the standard of nutrition, the daily intake of oil per person should be 20-25 grams, salt intake should not be higher than 6 grams, excessive consumption of oil and salt is also a major cause of diabetes. When cooking we should choose more vegetable oils, and a variety of oil cycle, do not use a long-term use of fats. If you like to drink alcohol, you should also pay attention to the fact that 100 grams of liquor is equivalent to 13% of the total daily calories required by an average adult, so if you want your blood sugar to be at a stable level, you should not only quit meat but also quit alcohol.
Misconception six: only eat coarse grains not fine grains
Coarse grains contain more dietary fiber, which has the effect of lowering sugar, fat and stool, which is very beneficial to the body, but if you eat too much coarse grains, it will increase the gastrointestinal burden, affecting the absorption of nutrients, which will cause malnutrition in the long run. Therefore, it is very important to control the total energy on the basis of a rich and diversified diet.
Myth 7: Eat one less meal in order to lower blood sugar
Some patients take it upon themselves to eat one less meal in order to control their blood sugar. Diabetic patients should pay attention to eating less and more meals in the diet structure to avoid blood sugar fluctuations caused by overeating. Especially breakfast must be eaten, otherwise hypoglycemia is likely to occur before lunch, and excessive hunger leads to excessive lunch, which in turn will make the blood sugar rise after meals. If you do not eat breakfast for a long time, a large amount of protein in the body is broken down, which can induce infections and other complications. Breakfast can eat more corn, yams, carrots and other grains and cereals.
Myth 8: You can eat whatever you want if you take insulin
Some patients change to insulin therapy because of poor control of blood sugar by oral medication, thinking that with insulin there will be “peace in the world” and they don’t need to bother with diet control. In fact, the purpose of insulin therapy is to control blood sugar steadily, and the amount of insulin used must be adjusted on the basis of a fixed diet. If the diet is not controlled, the blood sugar will be more unstable. Therefore, it is very necessary to combine insulin therapy with nutritional therapy.
Myth 9: Single diet
Many diabetic friends have an excessively single diet. I once met a patient for several years the main food is pumpkin, but blood sugar is difficult to control, which illustrates a problem, anything can not be overkill, not because of high blood lipids to eat onions every day, not because of high blood pressure to eat celery at meals. The origin of the disease is certainly due to long-term unhealthy diet and lifestyle, but in the process of treatment we can not be too extreme.
Introduce a few health food therapy to reduce sugar side
A, wolfberry rabbit stew
Ingredients: rabbit meat, Chinese wolfberry, ginger, wine, onion, salt in appropriate amounts.
Practice: rabbit meat washed and chopped, plus ginger, scallions, wine marinade. Pour the marinated rabbit meat into the casserole, add wolfberry and the appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat, stewed with salt seasoning that is, eat meat and drink soup.
Second, the gravy cooked duck
Ingredients: 30 grams of gravy, duck 1, a little salt.
Practice: kill and wash the duck, fill the duck belly with gravy, boil the water in a casserole, change the fire to cook for 2 hours until the meat is rotten, add salt to eat.
Three, ginseng and lotus seeds porridge
Ingredients: 15 grams of northern ginseng, 15 red lotus seeds, appropriate amount of millet.
Practice.
1, the northern ginseng washed, moistened, cut 2 cm long section; lotus seeds washed, soaked overnight, remove the core; millet poured clean.
2, the northern ginseng, millet, red lotus seeds, clean water together in a pot, put the pot on the fire to boil, and then cook for 50 minutes on a civilian fire can be served.
Four, miscellaneous mushrooms fried okra
Ingredients: okra, various mushrooms, salt, vegetable oil.
Directions: Remove the head and tail of okra and cut into sections. Heat oil in a pan, then add ginger and garlic paste, half charred, then pour okra and various mushrooms, turn a few times and put salt. Miscellaneous mushrooms that is a variety of mushrooms, such as enoki mushrooms, shredded shiitake mushrooms, crab mushrooms, diabetic patients should eat more mushrooms and soy products. And okra is rich in mucus, mucus in soluble dietary fiber can reduce postprandial blood sugar, while okra has a good role in nourishing kidney energy, is a must-have vegetable on the table of diabetic friends.