Eating less and more meals can avoid the phenomenon of high blood glucose due to the increase of pancreatic burden by eating too much at one time, and also avoid the symptoms of hypoglycemia due to the long interval between meals. So what should diabetics do to eat less and more meals? In fact, it is very simple, you only need to remember two points “eat less at each meal, three meals into six meals” can be. Eat less at each meal You can ensure that the amount of daily staple food remains unchanged on the basis of the amount of staple food for three meals will be divided into half a tael to a tael for additional meals, or choose protein foods with weak glycemic effect, such as yogurt, tofu, etc.. Some experts believe that if the daily staple food exceeds 6 taels, it is advisable to adopt the method of eating less and more meals, so that the amount of staple food for each main meal does not exceed 2 taels, and the extra part is used as extra meals. In addition, for patients who inject insulin twice a day, it is easy to have hypoglycemia before lunch and at night. Especially at night, it is dangerous if hypoglycemia occurs, so it is necessary to test blood glucose before going to bed, and if blood glucose is lower than 6mmol/l, it is necessary to add a meal, so you can even out half a tael of the main meal for dinner or drink a bag of yogurt to add a meal. Three meals become six meals For light diabetic patients with stable disease, at least three meals should be guaranteed every day. The amount of staple food for three meals is 1/5 for breakfast, 2/5 for Chinese food, 2/5 for dinner or 1/3 for each of morning, midday and evening; for patients with high blood sugar fluctuation, easy to appear hypoglycemia and poor blood sugar control, they need to eat 5-6 times a day, 3 main meals and 3 extra meals, and the time of extra meals can be set as 9:00-10:00 in the morning, 15:00-16:00 in the afternoon and 21:00-22:00 in the evening.