How to calculate dietary calories scientifically for diabetic diet.
Patients with diabetes not only need to control their diet, but also need to achieve a balanced nutrition. How exactly can patients know how many calories they consume each day? Is there a scientific algorithm for this?
There is a method called the “food exchange” method, where different types of food are divided into portions, each containing a similar amount of calories, about 90 kcal, and can be substituted for each other in the same type of food. Diabetics can roughly estimate the number of servings of each food group according to their body weight and daily calorie requirements.
The following is an introduction to the “exchange of servings” of different food groups and how patients can calculate how many calories they should consume each day. How to eat for different caloric needs (what kind of food? How many servings?) etc.
Equivalent staple foods include cereals, rice and noodles “exchange portions”, such as rice, millet, noodles, corn kernels, vermicelli, cookies, etc. 25 grams of these staple foods equals 90 kcal.
Potatoes 125 grams, steamed buns 35 grams, bread 37.5 grams, equal to 90 kcal, patients can replace by these data.
Equal amount of vegetable food “exchange portions”, cabbage, bok choy, as well as winter melon, cucumber, tomato, celery, zucchini, fresh mushrooms, eggplant, cauliflower, these are 500 grams can produce 90 kcal.
Pumpkin, white radish, melon, loofah, for 350 grams, which is what we call 7 taels.
Dutch beans and cowpeas are 250 grams; garlic sprouts and carrots 200 grams, and peas 100 grams.
The portion of each fruit that generates 90 kcal is different, 750 grams for watermelon, 300 grams for strawberries, 250 grams for pears, 250 grams for oranges. Oranges, pineapples, apples, and peaches are all suitable for patients, usually 200 grams.
The protein category includes fish, meat and soy products that produce 90 kcal per serving can be seen: tofu is 200 grams, 100 grams of fresh shrimp, 75 grams of fish, 6 quail eggs, 1 egg, 50 grams of chicken, 50 grams of pork, beef and lamb, 50 grams of dried tofu and 20 grams of soy.
For dairy products that can generate 90 kcal are skim milk powder 220 ml, light soy milk 200 ml, sour milk 110 ml, milk 160 ml, low skim milk powder 25 g, cheese 25 g.
For the “exchange portion” of fats and oils, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds 30 grams, sesame paste 15 grams, peanut rice 15 grams, peach kernel 12.5 grams and peanut oil, soybean oil, vegetable oil, sesame oil between 9 grams and 10 grams.
For peanut oil, soybean oil, vegetable oil, sesame oil generally 1 spoonful is 10 grams, which can produce 90 kcal.
Can diabetics eat onions?
Onion can lower blood lipids, blood pressure and blood sugar, and has a good preventive effect on dyslipidemia, fatty liver, coronary heart disease, hypertension and diabetes. Onions also contain the trace element selenium, which is known to have anti-cancer effects.
Onions can be eaten in many ways, with shredded meat, eel slices of meat stir-fry, with potatoes stir-fry, can be slightly pickled and eaten with, can also be shredded and added to the flour pancakes to eat, if not afraid of the pungent taste of onions, raw food is best. There is also one of the simplest way: onions boiled with water to eat, the amount should not be much, 50 grams a day, long years of persistence, will be beneficial.
How to make rice for diabetics.
Diabetic standard rice rice ingredients and practice steps: standard rice 100 grams, about 200 grams of water, the rice clean, put into a small pot, add water. Steam on a high fire for about 30 minutes.
Diabetic standard rice nutrients: Nutritional composition of the finished product: 324 kcal, 8 g protein, 1.5 g fat, 69.5 g carbohydrates. 100 g raw rice, after steaming weighs about 285 g, and steamed rice can be less loss of nutrients than fished rice and stewed rice can be.
Grapefruit can help lower blood sugar.
According to the British “Daily Telegraph” reported that Israeli scientists found that eating grapefruit helps to lower sugar. Naringenin is an antioxidant that gives grapefruit a distinctive bitter taste. Studies have shown that it improves the body’s sensitivity to insulin and also keeps the weight of diabetics within normal limits. When a person eats, naringin allows the liver to burn more fat instead of storing excess fat. Ultimately, naringenin can act like fenofibrate (a lipid-regulating drug) and rosiglitazone (a glucose-lowering drug). Researchers believe that naringenin offers new hope for the development of diabetes drugs.
How to eat sweets for diabetic patients.
Patient: I like to eat sweets, but I cannot let go of them because of the need to treat my condition. So, it would be interesting to know what kind of sweets can diabetics eat?
Expert: It is not that diabetic patients cannot eat any sweets at all, but it mainly depends on the calories of the food and the total calories must be limited.
Diabetic patients should strictly limit the intake of white sugar, brown sugar, honey, jam, various sweet snacks, chocolate, sugary drinks and sweet fruit juices, because most of these foods contain more glucose and sucrose, which contain high calories and will significantly raise blood sugar after absorption. For example, in the summer, some diabetic patients eat a lot of cola or ice cream due to thirst, which can lead to diabetic ketoacidosis or hypertonic coma, endangering life.
Diabetics should not eat peanuts and melon seeds at will.
Peanuts and melon seeds taste delicious, containing less sugar, many diabetic patients think that eating more harmless, often as a hunger food to quench. Although peanuts and melon seeds contain low sugar, but contains more fat, is a high-calorie food, if eaten at will, not in accordance with the diet exchange method minus the corresponding amount of staple foods or eat too much, will lead to increased blood sugar, blood lipids.
Each 100 grams of peanuts contains 589 kcal, each 100 grams of melon seeds (including sunflower seeds, watermelon seeds) contains more than 570 kcal, are higher than the same weight of rice, pork, mutton, chicken and duck meat contains calories. Unrestricted consumption of peanuts and melon seeds will increase calorie and fat intake, resulting in weight gain, elevated blood lipids, which is not conducive to blood sugar and blood pressure control.
Some people say that pumpkin seeds have a hypoglycemic effect, and there are health food products made from pumpkin on the market. Specially for diabetics. In fact, the view that pumpkin seeds have a hypoglycemic effect is wrong. Although pumpkin seeds contain less sugar and dietary fiber, but contains high fat and protein, per 100 grams of pumpkin seeds contain 46.7 grams of fat, more food is also not conducive to the control of diabetes.
For nuts peanuts, melon seeds, eat less is beneficial, eat more is harmful. General daily consumption of nuts without shell 15 20 grams is appropriate. No matter how much you eat, you should strictly calculate its calories into the amount of food throughout the day.