In the treatment of diabetes, “keeping your mouth shut” is an important part of blood sugar control, and staple foods are the main factor affecting blood sugar. To paraphrase Shakespeare, it is a question of whether to eat staple foods or not to eat staple foods. If you don’t eat, you will always be hungry; if you eat, you will be worried about the rise of blood sugar. So, how should diabetic patients treat the issue of eating staples?
1, staple food must be eaten
Staple food can provide the body with rich carbohydrates, which are digested and absorbed in the intestine and converted into glucose, causing blood sugar to rise.
Some patients will control blood sugar by limiting the intake of staple foods. Although the effect of this sugar reduction is immediate, it will cause patients to lose weight, weakness, decreased resistance and induce various infections in the long run.
People are prone to hypoglycemia in the state of hunger, and hypoglycemia can be followed by rebound hyperglycemia, resulting in large fluctuations in blood glucose and loss of control of the disease, as if “I can allow you to enter my world, but not to walk around in my world.
Some patients close the window of “staple foods”, but open the door of “meat, eggs and fats”, which will make the total calorie count exceed the limit, resulting in elevated blood lipids.
Therefore, diabetic patients do not eat staple foods is more than worth the loss, should be selective to eat healthy staple foods.
2.What kind of staple food is best to eat
Because coarse grains are rich in dietary fiber and vitamins, which help delay the rise of blood sugar after meals, therefore, diabetic patients eat the best staple food is coarse grains, fine grains with, you can choose whole grain grains, potatoes, beans, such as japonica rice, barley, sweet potatoes, green beans, etc..
Some high-fat, high-oil staple foods should be eaten as little as possible or not, such as doughnuts, mooncakes, sesame flowers, cakes, dumplings, rice cakes, etc.
3.How much staple food should be eaten
The total daily calorie intake of diabetic patients needs to be judged according to their fat and thin, labor intensity, high and low blood sugar, etc. The general principle is to move more and eat more, move less and eat less, and not eat without moving, and the daily staple food should not be lower than the minimum limit of 150g. Usually it should be kept at 200-300g (referring to the raw weight of food), and in special cases it can reach 400g per day.
Resting patients: 200-250g per day.
Light manual workers: 250-300g per day.
Moderate manual laborers: 300-350g per day
Heavy manual laborers: 400g or more per day.
4.How should staple food be eaten
The staple food for diabetic patients can follow a principle, namely “low cooking degree, eat dry but not thin”, because the glycemic index of thin rice is high, and the blood sugar rises obviously after meals; it should also reduce the cooking steps as much as possible, which is conducive to blood sugar control.
5.How to allocate the main meals in a day
Diabetic patients need to ensure three meals a day, and distribute staple foods to each meal more evenly, in the ratio of 1/5, 2/5 and 2/5 in the morning, midday and evening.
Patients with higher blood glucose and unstable condition advocate small and multiple meals, and even out a small portion of food from the main meal as an additional meal, 5-6 meals per day, which can prevent hyperglycemia after the meal and avoid hypoglycemia before the next meal.
References
[1] Wang Jianhua. How diabetic patients should eat staple foods [J]. Knowledge of cardiovascular disease prevention and control (Science Edition),2017(02):12-13.