Your life is a constant exercise in sports, adherence to dietary rules, by all means controlling blood sugar and seeing a doctor for treatment correction. Diet is the most important in the treatment of diabetes. It often happens that only a simple diet helps a person to overcome this disease even without medication, and all is thankful to what you know, for example, that you absolutely can not use in diabetes.
Observing the diet, you normalize metabolic processes in the body and thus lower blood sugar. The benefits of diet for this disease knew even the ancient Egyptians. How does the diet work and what is its advantage, before other ways of fighting the disease. Diabetes mellitus is a violation of carbohydrate metabolism in the body. Restoration of carbohydrate metabolism is possible by diet.
Uniform intake of carbohydrates into the body is achieved with the help of proper nutrition. For diabetics of the 1st type, a diet is simply a vital necessity. Failure in nutrition can lead to serious complications of the disease. To maintain a diet, it is advisable to keep a diary of nutrition. It records the foods you ate for the day, their calories and quantity. Such a diary helps you to maintain a diet and in it the success of your treatment.
The diet for diabetes is individual for each patient and is composed by an endocrinologist who observes it. When compiling a diet, take into account the patient's age, sex, physical activity, and weight. The energy value of the products is also necessarily calculated.
The main thing in nutrition with diabetes is a restriction in the use of carbohydrates. Patient categorically can not eat sugar, chocolate, sweets, confectionery, jam and ice cream. However, in the menu with diabetes, milk products and milk dishes must be present. In addition, we must remember that food intake should be at least 5-6 times a day and the products should contain vitamins, and the calorie content of dishes is low.
In order that patients could correctly calculate the amount of carbohydrates in their diet and it was clear that one can not eat, the doctors introduced the concept of a grain unit. This is especially important for those who receive insulin, because the amount of carbohydrates should be equal to the amount of insulin administered to the patient. It must be remembered that lunch and dinner are three to five grain units, no more than two bread units per snack.
One grain unit is:
- thirty grams of bread,
-one tablespoon of flour,
- two tablespoons of boiled porridge,
-one glass of milk,
-one tablespoon of sugar,
- one potato,
- one beet,
- three grapes,
- half a grapefruit, a banana, a cob of corn,
- one apple, pear, peach, orange, persimmon, one piece of melon or watermelon,
- three or four mandarins, apricots or plums,
- a cup of raspberries, strawberries. Blueberries, currants, lingonberries, blackberries,
- one third of a glass of grape juice,
- half a cup of apple juice,
- one glass of kvass or beer.
Meat and fish do not contain carbohydrates, and therefore they do not need to be counted. At a diabetes it is categorically impossible to include in food products in which it is a lot of carbohydrates. It is necessary to seriously limit the use of roast, spicy, salty and smoked. It is necessary to completely exclude from food products that simultaneously contain a lot of fats and carbohydrates (cakes, cakes and other sweets).
Patients with type 2 diabetes usually suffer from obesity and therefore the first task for diet therapy is to reduce the weight of the patient. In some cases, doctors prescribe certain types of medications that, together with diet and exercise, contribute to weight loss. If the patient with type 2 diabetes does not suffer from obesity, then the diet is built in accordance with the norms for this disease (taking into account - sex, age and physical load).
One of the important principles of diabetics is the interchangeability of products. You will diversify your diet, if you use different products on different days, as well as create different combinations of them. It is also possible to carry out so-called "milk days" or "vegetable days" and the like.
Now you know what you can not eat with diabetes and how to make your menu correctly. So, let's repeat what we exclude from eating with diabetes - all the sweets and juices in the packages, mango and rice, buns, ice cream, soda, bananas, grapes, pineapple and other fruits, in which there are many unrefined carbohydrates. Do not eat everything spicy, spicy, smoked, pepper and mustard. These are only general recommendations. For the correct formulation of a balanced diet, you should always consult a specialist.