Diabetes treatment includes education, patient self-management and blood sugar monitoring, diet therapy, exercise therapy and hypoglycemic drug therapy. The first four items are basic treatment, and the last 1 items are important supportive treatment. Among these items, diet therapy for diabetes is the cornerstone and an important part of diabetes management.

The significance of diet therapy for diabetes

Firstly, it can help diabetics to reduce the load of islet β cells and delay the progress of diabetes; The second is to make blood sugar control more up to standard, the third is to prevent hypoglycemia and the fourth is to prevent obesity. Therefore, people with diabetes choose and configure appropriate catering plans, which can be adjusted to meet nutritional needs through blood sugar monitoring, and also reduce the burden of diet on glucose metabolism as much as possible.

One small detail that people may not pay attention to in diet therapy for diabetics: even some condiments can raise blood sugar:

1. Diabetic people should eat less fermented bean curd sauce

In winter, many people start to make fermented bean curd in cold weather, but this condiment is mainly salty, and it is not suitable for diabetics after certain fermentation and pickling. If it is eaten frequently, it will only aggravate the condition of diabetes.

Similar condiments include Chili sauce and peanut butter, which should be eaten less for diabetics, and some peanut butter can be divided into sweet and salty, which are rich in sugar or salt and high in fat. So it is better to eat less.

2. People with diabetes should also eat less soy sauce.

Soy sauce is a common condiment, but diabetes is not suitable for eating more, because a lot of salt is added in the process of making soy sauce. If you eat too much soy sauce, it may also lead to blood vessel blockage, and it will also lead to high blood pressure and affect blood sugar control.

2. People with diabetes should eat less oyster sauce

Everyone likes to eat hot pot in winter, and many people prefer to add oyster sauce to hot pot, which can refresh the dishes. Oyster sauce is made by concentrating the steamed and boiled juice of oysters or directly hydrolyzing oyster meat, then adding raw materials such as sugar, salt, starch or modified starch, supplemented by other ingredients and food additives. It is not recommended for people with high blood sugar.

Finally, I would like to remind you that besides sugar, the amount of salt should also be limited:

Studies have found that eating too much salt will increase the risk of diabetes under the same lifestyle. Eating more salt in diabetics can also make blood sugar difficult to control, because on the one hand, high-salt diet can induce the increase of ghrelin secretion in the body, and ghrelin can inhibit insulin secretion and increase insulin resistance, that is, the sensitivity of human body to insulin hypoglycemic effect decreases, and more insulin needs to be secreted to achieve a state of normal hypoglycemic effect, thus inducing diabetes; On the other hand, ghrelin can also increase appetite and lead to obesity, which is often accompanied by diabetes.

It is suggested that diabetics should have a bottle cap every day, and family members should also control it for health. Healthy adults generally control it at about 5 grams every day, which means the capacity of filling a beer bottle cap. Patients who are over 65 years old or have been diagnosed with hypertension should control their salt content within 5 grams. It is recommended to buy a 2-gram salt control spoon and eat about 2 grams of salt every meal. Diabetics, especially those with hypertension, should limit their salt intake.