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 mainly include
Myth 1: Eat less staple foods
Some patients think that the less staple food is eaten, the better, due to insufficient intake, the total calories can not meet the needs of the body metabolism, resulting in excessive decomposition of body fat, protein, body wasting, malnutrition, and even starvation ketosis; some patients although control the amount of staple food, but the fats, meat and eggs food is not controlled, so that the total daily calories far exceed the standard, and excessive fat intake, easy to complicate hyperlipidemia and Cardiovascular disease. In fact, the focus of diabetic diet regulation is to control total calories and fat, and staple foods contain more complex carbohydrates, which are relatively slow to raise blood glucose and should be guaranteed enough.
Myth 2: Rare rice is the mainstay
Many patients think that drinking thin rice is easy to feel full and is the ideal diet therapy. In fact, food that is cooked, boiled and contains more water is easily digested and absorbed, and blood sugar rises quickly. Therefore, diabetic patients with poor blood sugar control should change the habit of drinking thin rice.
Myth 3: Eat freely without sugar
Some patients mistakenly believe that some salty bread, salty cookies and “special food for diabetes” in the market do not contain sugar, so they can be used to fill up when they are hungry and do not need to control. In fact, all kinds of bread and cookies are made of grain, which will be converted into glucose and lead to an increase in blood sugar.
Myth 4: Snacks are not limited
Some patients have ideal control of three meals, but develop the habit of snacking (such as peanuts, melon seeds and casual foods) due to hunger or other reasons. In fact, this destroys the diet control, most snacks contain high calorie content of fat, arbitrary consumption will lead to total calorie overload.
Myth 5: Eat only vegetarian food
Many patients believe that meat food and fat is the enemy of diabetes, the less meat food eaten the better, or even not eat. In fact, meat food contains more high-quality protein, containing nutrients that are more easily absorbed by the human body, which is extremely beneficial to health, the key is to eat reasonably.
Misconception six: eat more soybean products
Appropriate consumption of soy products (soy juice, tofu, etc.) is indeed beneficial to health. Soy products do not contain sugar, not that they do not convert to sugar, but they do so more slowly and eventually to glucose, leading to an increase in blood sugar. For elderly people and people with long duration of diabetes, excessive consumption of vegetable protein can cause excessive nitrogenous waste in the body, increasing the burden on the kidneys and further decreasing kidney function. If you have proteinuria, it is best to forbid soy products and try to focus on fish and poultry and other high-quality protein.
Myth 7: Drugs against diet
Some patients believe that drugs can control blood sugar, as long as the original dose of medication can be increased to offset the extra food, and therefore often can not help but eat 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 drug toxic side effects, which is very unfavorable to the control of the disease.
Myth 8: Eat coarse but not fine
Many patients believe that coarse grains contain more dietary fiber, which has the effect of lowering sugar, lowering fat, and passing stools, and is beneficial to the body, so they only eat coarse grains and not fine grains. It is worth noting that 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.
Myth 10: Vegetable oil is fine to eat more
Many diabetic patients believe 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 believe that eating more vegetable oils has no effect on their condition. I do not know, no matter animal oil, vegetable oil, are high calorie food. If they are not controlled, they will easily exceed the total calories, which is extremely detrimental to the control of the disease.