Blood sugar, the glucose in the blood, is normally maintained at around 3.89-6.11 mmol/L. It is the fuel for the body’s tissue cells and is the driving force of life. In some cases, the body’s tissue cells cannot use glucose properly and blood sugar rises, instead becoming a killer of life, the name of this killer is diabetes.
In the 1950s and 1960s, many people had never heard of diabetes at all. Now, almost everyone knows a little bit about diabetes, why? This is because the incidence of diabetes has increased in recent years due to changes in people’s diets and lifestyles, and people’s knowledge of diabetes has increased as well. Many people know that the first important thing to do in treating diabetes is to be careful about what you eat, but specifically about how to be careful, patients and their families often have their own “high opinion”, and there is no shortage of ludicrous misconceptions among the “high opinion”, the following small narrative a few. The following are a few.
One, diabetic patients must eat half a catty of grain every day and drink more porridge.
Wang Da Ma is 72 years old and has been suffering from diabetes for 16 years. She is treated with insulin every day, but her blood sugar fluctuates between 8-23 mmol/L and is poorly controlled. What is the reason?
After careful inquiry and understanding, we learned that Wang’s mother has two dutiful daughters who are very concerned about her mother’s health, especially the eldest daughter. The eldest daughter works in an insurance company and heard from somewhere that diabetics must eat half a catty of grain every day and drink more porridge or else they will not have the strength to do so, so she believed it and took it as holy writ. After that, she set her mother the task of eating half a catty of food and drinking more porridge every day, in order to control her mother’s diabetes, so that she can have good strength and good spirit, into the responsibility of being a child. The mother originally had a good appetite, research daughter so “will” care for themselves, appetite better, eat what, what smells good. What happened?
The second daughter of Wang’s mother what view? The second daughter is also a diabetic, usually very careful to control the diet, simply do not agree with his sister’s view, that is wrong, but can not argue with his sister, can only dry heart anxious. Now that she is in the hospital, the second daughter is ready to seek the support of her doctor and ask the endocrinologist to judge who is right and who is wrong.
Is it true that diabetics must eat half a pound of grain every day? No. Then how much should be eaten? You should eat as much as you can, depending on how much you consume each day. If a car runs 100 kilometers to burn 6 liters of gasoline, add more gasoline can not be used, can only exist in the tank; general elderly people less activity, may only need to consume 2-3 grain per day is enough, eat more than not used, and unlike gasoline can be stored, the result can only lead to increased blood sugar, worsening diabetes, worse physical strength, rather than increasing physical strength.
The starch in the porridge is very open and absorbed into the intestines especially quickly, while the pancreatic beta cells of diabetics are poor and slow to respond, the result? Blood sugar will suddenly rise.
So, diabetics eat how much to consume according to how much, porridge less to drink as appropriate, so it, Wang Da Ma no longer eat half a pound of grain every day.
Second, diabetics should eat more sugar-free snacks.
One afternoon, Sun Auntie was admitted to the hospital in an emergency because of high blood sugar and stomach pain, and her children were busy and worried, not knowing where the problem was. After a detailed examination after admission, it was found that Sun’s intestines were different, which in medical terms is called intestinal obstruction. After the doctor gave the appropriate symptomatic treatment, Sun Da-amma eliminated many stools, the stomach suddenly did not hurt, the province as a relief, a lot of relief. The mother’s children also felt relieved and relaxed, and lamented: so many poisons and wastes accumulated in the intestines, the mother can not stomach pain? How can she feel comfortable?
What is the cause of Sun’s intestinal obstruction? After a deeper understanding, the cause of the disease lies in the care of his children. The sons and daughters knew that their mother had diabetes and were very concerned about it, paying special attention to the news about it. I can’t remember when, where, or where, the children heard propaganda that diabetics eat sugar-free snacks, so they gave their mother sugar-free snacks every day, every day, and rarely ate some fruits, vegetables, or whatever. No wonder Grandma Sun was constipated!
Some of the important conditions to keep the stool open are: proper exercise to promote intestinal peristalsis; proper use of fiber to increase the volume of stool, etc. The fact that Grandma Sun is already old, has poor legs, lacks exercise, and eats sugar-free snacks without any fiber every day and every day, no wonder she is constipated and has intestinal obstruction! In addition, the composition of any snack is nothing but starch, starch eaten in the intestines of the breakdown products is “sugar”, so for diabetics to control blood sugar, eating sugar-free snacks and eating sugar snacks is not essentially different and too meaningful, depending on how much you eat at a time. Blood sugar still rises when you eat more sugar-free snacks, while blood sugar may not change much if you eat a little bit of sugary snacks. There is still a difference between sugar-free snacks and sugary snacks, and that is the price.
Three, eat pumpkin to prevent diabetes
Diabetic patients can not eat fruit, can not eat …… old Li is a retired technical cadres of the army research institute, every year to participate in the unit’s health checkup, for several years, blood pressure is not high, blood lipids are normal, ECG, etc. are not seen abnormal. Today’s situation has changed a little, although most indicators are normal, but the blood sugar is a little high, close to diabetes. Old Lee does not want to wear a diabetic hat, so the opportunity to take action at home, steamed a large pumpkin to eat. Why? Old Lee has long known, “pumpkin can cure diabetes!” The company’s main goal is to provide a good solution to the problem. Old Lee ate hard to eat, thinking: this time blood sugar must be reduced to the same as normal people. After three or four days, Old Li went to the hospital with confidence to have his blood sugar tested again. The result? Higher, fasting blood sugar 16.5mmol / L, diabetes hat wearing a fixed. After that, Old Li often said with anger: “Pumpkin does not cure diabetes, pumpkin causes diabetes!”
Similar to Lao Li’s case, from time to time I hear individual diabetic patients say: diabetic patients can not eat fruit, can not eat this, can not eat that. Is this really true? Not really. The purpose of treating diabetes is to ensure the health of patients by ensuring their nutrition and energy supply. In addition, no matter what kind of food, its composition is just protein, fat, starch, dielectric, vitamins, etc., there is not much essential difference and difference. This analysis naturally leads to the following conclusion: there is nothing that diabetics cannot eat. But remember, what diabetics can’t eat is not the same as diabetics can eat whatever they want. The key is to eat as much as you need, consume as much as you can, eat a few more bites of some things, and eat strictly less of others. Some patients say: life should have both length and width, from the perspective of the pursuit of the enjoyment of life, the New Year’s holiday, occasionally moderate liberal once, blood sugar occasionally moderately high so once or twice, it is not what is completely not possible. In this regard, I also agree.
Fourth, drink to lower sugar.
Secretary Jia is 48 years old, is a leading cadres of enterprises, career scenery just right. One day, Jia Secretary slightly weak, to the hospital to draw blood tests, high blood sugar, after the doctor’s judgment, set the diagnosis: diabetes. This is a cloudy sky, Secretary Jia’s heart also gathered a few cloudy, how to do? The news spread in a limited scope, subordinates have to offer advice. Zhang told the secretary quietly: drink to lower blood sugar, I do, it really works! Secretary Jia usually socialize more, drinking more, now I heard that drinking can lower blood sugar, really hit the spot, wonderful.
Is drinking really lowering blood sugar? Yes, drinking can lower blood sugar. So can you drink to cure diabetes? No, not at all. There are two sources of blood sugar in human blood, one is from dietary absorption, and the other is from mobilization of body reserves. Alcohol can inhibit the mobilization process of reserves, so it is true that drinking alcohol without eating can lower blood sugar, but it is not possible to hope that drinking alcohol can cure diabetes. As mentioned earlier, the purpose of lowering blood sugar is to treat diabetes, and the purpose of treating diabetes is to ensure nutrition, and the alcohol in the wine out of the ethanol, there is nothing nutritious to say, naturally, and the purpose of treating diabetes, drinking to cure diabetes, can not be relied on. In addition, there are many disadvantages of drinking alcohol, which has long been known to everyone, no need to repeat.
Healthy people pursue a colorful and colorful life, and diabetics also pursue a colorful and colorful life. I wish every diabetic avoid misunderstandings, enjoy life without delaying the treatment of diabetes, and spend every day happily.