Diabetes is a lifelong disease for which there is no cure. Therefore, the treatment of diabetes must be a combination of medication, diet and exercise. Among them, diet is the most basic and important treatment method. The dietary principles for diabetic patients should be: increase dietary fiber, eat more foods rich in vitamins and trace elements, ensure the content of protein, and control the intake of carbohydrates and fats.
Diabetic patients daily meals refer to the following principles for.
1, staple food category: general control of about 5-6 two per day, and try to account for corn, millet, buckwheat and other coarse grains, eat less rice, white flour and other fine grains. Patients with heavy physical labor can eat a little more, such as 6-7 taels per day; people with light physical labor eat a little less, such as 4-5 taels per day. People with more serious illnesses should then reduce the consumption.
2, side dishes: no combined kidney disease of diabetic patients to choose food containing more protein, such as soybeans, per 100 grams contains 36 grams of protein, 100 grams of lean meat contains 18 grams of protein, an egg contains 6 grams of protein. Soy products are rich in protein and are best eaten with animal proteins such as lean meat, fish, chicken, duck and milk. Protein is also converted into glucose in the body, but very slowly. If these protein-containing foods are added before bedtime, they can also prevent drug-induced hypoglycemia in the middle of the night.
Diabetic patients are suitable to eat vegetable fats, such as peanut oil, soybean oil, sesame oil, etc., and avoid animal oils, such as lard, beef oil, lamb oil, etc.
For diabetics, desserts basically can not touch, rice basically can not eat full, fruit basically can not eat more? Such a basic principle of diet in the end what else can be eaten?
In fact, diabetics are prohibited from eating sweets and many kinds of fruits because glucose and sucrose are digested and absorbed quickly, which will make blood sugar rise too fast after consumption and is not conducive to the control of blood sugar after meals; eating less food with high carbohydrate content is also a prerequisite for controlling blood sugar up to the standard. However, there are many foods that diabetics can eat, such as corn, wheat, cabbage, leeks, bean products, etc. Introduction is as follows.
Appropriate to eat grains and cereals
Such as oat noodles, buckwheat noodles, oat noodles, corn flour and other staple foods rich in vitamin b, a variety of trace elements and dietary fiber, long-term consumption can reduce blood sugar, blood lipids.
Low-sugar vegetables are recommended
Such as leeks, zucchini, winter squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, green peppers, eggplant. The cucumber and tomatoes are low in sugar and can be eaten as both vegetables and fruits.
It is advisable to eat food containing calcium
Calcium deficiency can contribute to the aggravation of the diabetic condition. Such as shrimp, kelp, ribs, sesame paste, soybeans, milk, etc. rich in calcium.
Desirable foods rich in selenium
Selenium is similar to the physiological activity of insulin in regulating glucose metabolism. Such as fish, mushrooms, sesame, garlic and mustard are rich in selenium, they can lower blood sugar and improve the symptoms of diabetes.
Foods rich in vitamin b and vitamin c are desirable
The supplementation of these two types of vitamins is beneficial to slow down the process of diabetic complications and to reduce the lesions of diabetic retina and kidney lesions. Such as fish, milk, cabbage, beans and mustard, kale, green pepper, fresh dates and other high content. In addition, pumpkin, bitter gourd, onion, eel, etc. on the patient to drink more, more food, polyuria symptoms have significantly improved the role of lowering blood sugar, regulate the function of blood sugar concentration, suitable to eat more.
Diabetic patients should not eat food.
Not suitable to eat a variety of sugar
Such as preserves, canned fruit, soft drinks, fruit juice, jam, ice cream, sweet cookies, sweet bread and sugar pastries, etc., because these foods contain very high sugar, easy to consume high blood sugar.
Do not eat foods with high cholesterol and animal fat
Such as animal brain, liver, heart, lung, waist, egg yolk, fatty meat, butter, pork, beef and mutton oil, etc. These foods tend to raise blood lipids and make it easy for atherosclerosis to occur.
Do not drink alcohol
Alcohol can make blood sugar fluctuate, and serious hypoglycemia can occur when drinking a lot of alcohol on an empty stomach, and drunkenness can often cover up the performance of hypoglycemia, which is not easy to detect and very dangerous.