Diabetes is a lifestyle disease, and good or bad eating habits play a vital role in the occurrence, development and regression of the disease. Many diabetic patients have some dietary misconceptions that affect the control of their disease. These dietary misconceptions are: Misconception 1: less staple food Many patients believe that the less staple food eaten the better, and even for several years to control the staple food to eat only half a tael to a tael per meal, due to insufficient staple food intake, the total calories can not meet the body’s metabolic needs, resulting in excessive decomposition of body fat, protein, body wasting, malnutrition, and even starvation ketosis; control the amount of staple food, but the fat, snacks, meat The amount of staple foods is controlled, but the amount of fats, snacks, meat and eggs is not controlled, making the total daily calories far exceed the standard, and the fat intake is excessive, making it easy to complicate hyperlipidemia and cardiovascular disease. In fact, the focus of diabetic diet regulation is to control total calories and fat, while staple foods contain more complex carbohydrates, which are relatively slow to raise blood sugar and should be eaten in sufficient quantity. Myth 2: Rare rice is the mainstay Many patients believe that rare rice has more water in it, which makes it easy to feel full and is the ideal dietary therapy. In fact, cooked and boiled food as well as food containing more water are easily digested and absorbed, and the rate of blood sugar rise is fast, while rice or tortillas are slowly digested, and their carbohydrates release glucose slowly, and the rate of blood sugar rise is also slow. Therefore, diabetics with poor blood sugar control should change the habit of drinking thin rice. Myth 3: No sugar eat at will Some patients wrongly believe that diabetes as long as they do not eat sugary food, some sugar-free food, salty bread, salty cookies and a large number of diabetes-specific sweetener food on the market do not contain sugar, you can fill up with them when hungry and do not need to control. In fact, all kinds of bread and cookies are made of grain, the same as rice buns, eaten will also be converted into glucose in the body, leading to an increase in blood sugar, such foods can be used to improve the monotonous taste and enhance the pleasure of life, but must be calculated into the total calories. Myth 4: Snacks are not limited Some patients have better control of three meals, but due to hunger or other reasons develop the habit of eating snacks such as peanuts, melon seeds and casual foods. In fact, this also destroys the diet control. Most snacks are foods with high fat content or calories, and arbitrary consumption will lead to excess total calories. Myth 5: Eat only vegetarian food Many patients believe that animal food will cause too much protein, animal fat intake increases, meat food and fat is the enemy of diabetes, the less meat food eaten the better, or even better not to eat. In fact, animal food has more high-quality protein and contains nutrients that are more easily absorbed by the body, which is extremely beneficial to health, the key is to eat reasonably. Myth 6: Eat more soy products A proper diet of soy products (soy juice, tofu, etc.) is indeed good for your health. The fact that soy products do not contain sugar does not mean that they do not convert to sugar, only that the conversion is slow (takes about 3 hours) and will eventually convert to glucose as well, leading to an increase in blood sugar. Especially for elderly people and people with long duration of diabetes, if you don’t pay attention and consume too much vegetable protein in large quantities, it will cause too much nitrogenous waste in the body, which will aggravate the burden on the kidneys and make the kidney function further diminish. For those with combined proteinuria, it is best to abstain from eating soy products. Try to fish, poultry and other high-quality protein as much as possible. Myth 7: Drugs against diet Some patients believe that drugs can control blood sugar, as long as the original dose of drugs can be increased to offset the extra food, and therefore often can not resist eating more when they feel hungry. In fact, this not only makes the diet control null and void, but also increases the burden on the pancreatic islets and increases the possibility of hypoglycemia and toxic side effects of drugs, which is very unfavorable to the control of the disease. Myth 8: Eat coarse not fine Many patients believe that coarse grains contain more dietary fiber, have lowering sugar, lowering fat, the efficacy of the stool, beneficial to the body, so only eat coarse grains not fine grains. However, the intake of too much coarse food, will increase the gastrointestinal burden, affecting the absorption of nutrients, which in the long run will cause malnutrition. Therefore, no matter what food is eaten, should be moderate. Myth 9: Eat more pumpkin to lower sugar Modern medical research believes that pumpkin contains more pectin fiber, mixed with starchy foods, can improve the viscosity of the stomach contents, so that blood sugar does not rise too quickly after meals. However, pumpkin should not be used as the only treatment or medicine. Therefore, diabetic patients should eat pumpkin scientifically in order to benefit their health. Many diabetic patients know that animal oils contain saturated fatty acids that are bad for the body, while vegetable oils contain unsaturated fatty acids that are good for health, so they think that eating more vegetable oils has no effect on their condition. I do not know, although vegetable oil contains more unsaturated fatty acids, but no matter animal oil, vegetable oil, are fat, are high calorie food. If not controlled, it is easy to exceed the total daily calorie requirement, which is extremely detrimental to the control of diabetes.