Contents:
- Medical Video: Preventing Pre-Diabetes
- List of foods that diabetics should avoid
- 1. Beverage packaging
- 2. White bread, wheat flour paste, and rice
- 3. Foods rich in trans fat
- 4. Dried fruit
- 5. Fries
- 6. Foods high in carbohydrates
- 7. Honey, agave syrup, and maple syrup
- 8. Copy with topping
Medical Video: Preventing Pre-Diabetes
Diabetes is a chronic disease characterized by high blood sugar levels due to insulin resistance. Diabetes cannot be cured. It's just that, there are various lifestyle changes that can help keep blood sugar levels under control. One of them is by avoiding some foods for diabetes.
Not everything we consume will significantly increase blood sugar levels, because every food and drink has varying levels of sugar or glucose. But an unhealthy diet can quickly increase blood sugar levels, especially if the food you eat is high in calories from simple carbohydrates and sugars.
List of foods that diabetics should avoid
The assumption that people with diabetes must abstain from eating sweet foods is not entirely true. People with diabetes generally can still consume sweet foods and drinks or contain sugar as long as they don't increase blood sugar levels quickly.
The types of food recommended for consumption in large quantities are vegetables and fruits. Processed foods with sugar, fat and salt levels that are not too high can also be consumed occasionally.
But the following types of foods and drinks should be avoided if you have diabetes:
1. Beverage packaging
Especially soda or juice packaging. To find out how much sugar is contained in your drink, be careful nutritional value information label listed on the packaging. Sugar in beverage packaging is labeled with the name carbohydrate.
Soft drinks generally can contain 38 grams of sugar per 350 ml. Some sweet drinks with fruit flavorings also usually use fructose sweeteners which are known to trigger insulin resistance, especially in diabetics and hoarding fat in the stomach.
2. White bread, wheat flour paste, and rice
Bread, pasta, and white rice are the main sources of simple carbohydrates, with only very little fiber.
All three are not ideal food choices for diabetes, but instead are dangerous. Simple carbohydrates are very easily absorbed by the body and converted into blood sugar. What's more, the accumulation of simple carbohydrates can be sourced from other foods. Reducing and replacing rice with foods rich in fiber and protein is a safe way to reduce hunger while keeping blood sugar levels of diabetics stable.
3. Foods rich in trans fat
Trans fat mostly found on margarine, jam, and preserved food. Although not directly raising blood sugar levels, trans fats can trigger insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome and risk factors for damage to blood vessels such as reducing HDL levels. Reducing the consumption of trans fat is needed in preventing damage to blood vessels due to diabetes, especially those that are also at high risk of disease cardiovascular.
4. Dried fruit
Dried fruit is a snack from pieces of fruit that are preserved by reducing the water content.
Several types fresh fruit generally have high sugar levels, but when faced with two choices between fresh fruit and dried fruit as food for diabetes, choose fresh fruit.
The dried fruit has a higher concentration of nutrients, but unfortunately the sugar content is also concentrated. Fresh fruit still has a more stable sugar concentration. In addition, choose fresh fruit with low sugar levels such as apples.
5. Fries
Although delicious, fries are a food choice for poor diabetes. Combination cooking oil and high carbohydrates from potatoes themselves can increase blood sugar levels. One medium sized potato for example contains about 30 grams of carbohydrates. Fry potatoes can also trigger the formation of a chemical component of aldehyde which can trigger the development of diabetes.
6. Foods high in carbohydrates
For example various kinds of potato chips, biscuits, and breakfast cereals. Packaged foods are not ideal food choices for diabetes, because they tend to be high in carbohydrates from flour even though wheat has been added.
Packaged carbohydrates in general also tend to be higher than foods that are processed by cooking so that they can increase blood sugar levels quickly.
7. Honey, agave syrup, and maple syrup
Although often used as sugar substitute sand, but in reality these three "natural sugars" are not much better. In fact, the total carbohydrates from these alternative sweeteners can be much higher.
For example, one tablespoon of white sugar has 12.6 grams of glucose, but it turns out honey glucose levels are 17 grams, agave syrup is 16 grams, and maple syrup is 13 grams. Therefore, reducing sweetener consumption will be more effective than replacing sugar with all three.
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Unlike ordinary black coffee, a lot of the coffee sold in coffee shops generally contains more sugar because it is added with caramel, chocolate syrup or whipped cream. The same goes for the coffee cream that you mix yourself at home.
If you're a fan of coffee, it's better to consume black coffee or espresso only Black coffee has been proven to reduce the risk of diabetes.
