Diabetes is considered a common endocrine disease which is caused by deficiency of insulin (pancreatic hormone) or its low activity in humans. As a result, blood in diabetes increases the level of glucose, whereby impaired metabolism occurs and gradual loss of almost all organ systems.
What should be a healthy diet for patients with diabetes, they say experts Xvatit.com.
Human Nutrition at diabetes
1. Fractional power, that is, a day should be at least 5-6 meals, and the portions should be small. This will contribute to the uniform absorption of carbohydrates from the intestine to the gradual increase in blood glucose levels.
2. Food is required to take at certain times. This will allow to regulate insulin and blood sugar.
3. It is necessary to limit consumption, and better and exclude, and diet products that dramatically improve blood sugar: confectionary, sugar, jam, jam, grapes.
4. It is worth to pay attention to foods high in dietary fiber and fiber products such as the least sugar increase.
5. It is advisable to dishes that are used by the patient throughout the day, contained a small amount of fat (no more than 30%). Thus half of this fraction must belong vegetable oils (olive oil, corn oil, sunflower oil).
6. Throughout the rest of the patient's diet, diabetes should not be radically different from physiological (normal) power.
Now we propose to consider the products recommended for use in patients with diabetes mellitus.
Recommended products for diabetes
1. Bread (preferably black).
2. Soups, cooked mostly on vegetable broth. You can also allow a couple of times a week soup, cooked over low fish or meat broth with vegetables.
3. Fish dishes, poultry and meat. Chicken, veal, beef, turkey and filler boiled, lean fish boiled.
4. Side dishes and vegetable dishes. Cabbage and cauliflower, radishes, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini. Beets, carrots and potatoes are allowed at a rate of no more than 200 grams per day. The day is recommended to eat vegetables baked, boiled and raw form of about 1 kg.
5. Berries and fruits, sweets and desserts. Sour-sweet and sour varieties berries and fruits (Antonov apples, oranges, lemons, cranberries, red currants, etc.) - up to 200 g per day.
6. Side dishes and dishes from the cereals are allowed in limited amounts.
7. Eggs. At night you can afford to eat 2 boiled eggs, in the form of an omelette or as an additive in any dish.
8. dairy products. Kefir, milk, yogurt, sour cream, cheese, cream, curd in its natural form or as puddings and cheesecakes permitted in limited amounts.
9. Beverages. Tea with milk, weak coffee, regular tea, tomato juice, fruit and berry juice from sour varieties of fruits and berries, especially cherries, blueberries, cranberries, cranberry, strawberry, strawberry, blackberry, buckthorn, citrus, stone bramble, pumpkin, red currants, black currants, gooseberries, raspberry.
10. Fats. Vegetable oils and butter are allowed up to 40 g (for a cooking or in free form) per day.
