Contents:
- Medical Video: Preventing Pre-Diabetes
- Abstinence from diabetic food
- Try to set your diet and intake as a healthy diabetes eating plan
- Calculating carbohydrates
- Make a food list.
Medical Video: Preventing Pre-Diabetes
Diabetes is a condition that makes blood sugar levels in the body high. High blood sugar levels are generally more often influenced by foods eaten by people with diabetes. Then, what diabetic foods should be avoided? Is there a way to maintain a diabetic diet?
Abstinence from diabetic food
Diabetes, if not controlled, can increase the risk of heart disease and stroke by accelerating the development of blockages and hardening of the arteries. There are several types of food and food sources that can make diabetes complications occur faster. Foods that contain the following can further increase these risks:
1. Saturated fat.
Dairy products with high fat and animal protein such as beef, sausages, hot dogs, bacon contain saturated fat. Only consume a maximum of 7% saturated fat from your total daily calories or a maximum of 1 week in eating these foods once.
2. Trans fat
Trans fat is one of the many diets found in diabetes snack packaging, baked goods, and margarine. For those of you who suffer from diabetes, it's better to avoid these foods from now on.
3. Cholesterol
Cholesterol sources such as high-fat dairy products and high-fat animal protein such as egg yolks, shellfish, liver, and innards are taboos that diabetic foods must be avoided.
Because, people with diabetes who have high glucose when eating the following bad cholesterol foods are more susceptible to complications of heart disease than those who do not eat cholesterol foods.
4. Sodium
Not only hypertension people are obliged to limit salt consumption, people with diabetes are also required to limit sodium intake in salt. Diabetes and salt have similar harmful effects on the cardiovascular system.
Dr. Spyros Mezitis, an endocrinologist at Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, states that both cause blood vessels to harden and both also increase the risk of blood clots that can cause heart attacks and strokes. Take sodium or salt for less than 1 teaspoon (2000 mg) per day.
Try to set your diet and intake as a healthy diabetes eating plan
There are several different ways to plan a diabetic food diet that keeps your blood glucose levels in the normal range. With the help of a nutritionist, you might find one or several effective methods for you.
Calculating carbohydrates
You should know, that the carbohydrates you eat like rice, noodles and flour pasta will be broken down into glucose. The carbohydrates that become glucose have the biggest impact on your blood glucose level.
It's important to ensure the same meal time and carbohydrate count every day, especially if you take diabetes medications and insulin. If not, your blood glucose levels can fluctuate more.
Dieticians can teach you how to measure food portions and read food labels. Pay special attention to the amount and content of carbohydrates.
If you do treatment with insulin, a dietitian can teach you how to calculate the amount of carbohydrates in each food or snack, and adjust the insulin dose correctly.
Make a food list.
A dietitian can recommend using a food list to help you plan your diet. The following food lists are sorted by categories, such as carbohydrates, protein sources, and fat.
Food choices
One portion in the category is called "choice." Each food choice has the same amount of carbohydrates, proteins, fats and calories, and the same effect on your blood glucose. So, for example, you can choose to eat half a large corn or 1/3 cup of pasta for your carbohydrate choices.
Glycemic index
Some people who suffer from diabetes use the glycemic index to choose food, especially foods that are carbohydrate. Foods with a high glycemic index will increase blood sugar more than foods with a low glycemic index.
Complex carbohydrates that are high in fiber such as wheat rice, bread or cereal, have a lower glycemic index than simple carbohydrates such as white bread or white rice.
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