Contents:
- Medical Video: Top 10 Fruits for Diabetes Patients
- 1. Eat foods that are high in calories
- 2. Easily tired
- 3. Not just tired, you can experience "bongking"
- 4. So out of focus
- 5. Increased weight
- 6. Diabetes medications don't work
Medical Video: Top 10 Fruits for Diabetes Patients
Regular eating is obligatory for everyone. Especially for people with diabetes mellitus. It is very important for you to schedule any time you will eat and snack, and adhere to that schedule. Well, already know what will happen when people with diabetes eat irregularly? Check out the review below.
1. Eat foods that are high in calories
Sometimes when you're too busy, too stressed, or too tired people become irregular. Reporting from Everyday Health page, according to Adina Pearson RD, a clinical nutritionist, when people with diabetes eat irregularly, you will be more vulnerable to eating foods high in calories that are not recommended.
In addition, when you end up eating you also tend to eat in a hurry so you don't realize that your stomach is actually full. Therefore, according to Adina Pearson, never miss meals. This includes the schedule for snacking or drinking pre-arranged juices.
2. Easily tired
When you skip meals, your body will feel hungry. Well, this hunger can make people feel their bodies get tired quickly. When the body does not get nutrients from food in a timely manner, as a result the body's cells do not get the energy they should use to maintain all bodily functions. Because of the depletion of energy needed, the body uses the body's energy stores. Without refilling, you will feel tired.
Actually everyone can hold back hunger or sometimes not feel hungry. However, when it is time to eat, you should still eat. Because, when you miss meals, what happens in the body is a drastic decrease in blood sugar.
This decrease is very dangerous and will cause complications. Therefore, punctuality is needed by diabetics to keep their condition stable.
3. Not just tired, you can experience "bongking"
Bongking is a condition when the body experiences a drastic decrease in energy due to low blood sugar levels. This is very likely to occur when diabetic people eat irregularly. Signs of bongking are dizziness, nausea, and trembling body.
When you eat, glucose from carbohydrate food sources will be available in the body so that it can be used by body cells. However, without filling the body with glucose, the body will lack fuel. Finally, like it or not, the body will burn fat as a substitute for glucose as its fuel.
Because of the massive burning of fat, ketone acids eventually accumulate in the body. Changes in the use of this energy source eventually makes the muscles experience tremendous fatigue during physical activity.
4. So out of focus
Actually, whether you have diabetes or not, the brain needs glucose from foods that enter the body. When you miss meals it means you reduce the glucose that the brain needs to work properly. So, irregular eating will make brain function to maintain concentration and focus, remember, and think logically decreases.
5. Increased weight
Research in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry found that skipping meals to reduce calorie intake turned out to actually increase insulin and blood sugar, which in turn will increase weight.
Diabetes people must maintain their ideal body weight. Therefore, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK) warns diabetics to always maintain their normal weight.
Being overweight or obese has a very detrimental effect on blood sugar levels. When the stability of blood sugar levels is increasingly disrupted due to overweight conditions, the risk of complications such as high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke is also higher.
In addition, if you often skip meals, your body becomes less alert to regulating your hungry response and actual satiety response.
Adina Pearson, RD added, be careful too when you feel hungry when it's time to eat. Not feeling hungry does not mean your body does not need to eat. When you obey not to eat, your appetite will later appear excessively, which makes you take revenge by eating as much as possible. This is what then makes you gain weight.
6. Diabetes medications don't work
When diabetics skip meals, this will also have an impact on the drugs used. Both medication and injection drugs.
Basically diabetes medications should be used according to a consistent eating schedule. When you miss a meal, this will disrupt the function of the incoming drug. Especially if you use diabetes drugs that function to lower blood sugar, not eating it actually makes blood sugar levels in the body become increasingly below normal and you experience hypoglycemia.
